Bob Kerrey slams “torture report”
Former Democrat Senator, Medal of Honor recipient and a Navy SEAL Bob Kerrey took sometime yesterday to criticize in USAToday his colleagues in the Senate for the so-called “torture report” that they released the other day. Apparently, he’s not too happy with it for many of the reasons that folks on the other side have cited;
I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it.
When Congress created the intelligence committees in the 1970’s, the purpose was for people’s representatives to stand above the fray and render balanced judgments about this most sensitive aspect of national security. This committee departed from that high road and slipped into the same partisan mode that marks most of what happens on Capitol Hill these days.
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The Senate’s Intelligence Committee staff chose to interview no one. Their rationale – that some officers were under investigation and could not be made available – is not persuasive.
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I will continue to read the report to learn of the mistakes we apparently made. I do not need to read the report in full to know this: We have not been attacked since and for that I am very grateful.
I’ve mostly liked Kerrey, because he has been one of the few who took his job in the Senate seriously, unlike his similarly-named colleague who also served in Vietnam. He makes valid points in this opinion piece – mostly that it had it’s roots in dealing punishing blows to the historical record and to cover up their own failings in regards to the war against terror.
Kerrey also points out that there are no recommendations in this report to avoid that which the Senate Democrats consider corrupt or distasteful. Not that it makes any difference – there were recommendations in the 9-11 Commission’s report which were never adopted either.
Democrats have generally been more opposed to Republicans than they are opposed to terrorism. I can only hope that they take notes from Kerrey, and for the next two years put the country’s interests ahead of their own petty political agenda. Yeah, I know, I had a hard time typing that with a straight face, too.
Category: Congress sucks
At this point in time, the likelihood of the Democrat Machine seeing the error of their ways is right up there with Satan kneeling before the Most High and begging for Forgiveness …
Word.
+100 Brother!
Bob Kerrey was one I always respected, and that just went up a few levels with this scathing indictment of his own Party.
Too bad Bob isn’t a senator anymore. Thanks anyway, for standing up and saying something, too.
500-page “executive summary” and NO RECOMMENDATIONS!
This is cowflop (does not even rise to the level of bullish!t).
Bullshit would imply some level of testosterone was involved. All I see here is that Diane Finestine is butthurt with the CIA as she is taking her last shot before she slinks back into obscurity in the minority party. This report reeks of estrogen. If I were she, I would be worried about a visit from Jack Ryan Jr. and his heart attack pen.
If this Kerry would have run instead of Lurch I am certain he would have won and would have been a good POTUS too…
At least better than the mom jeans clown we have now…
Wrong “Kerry”, Thunderstixx.
“Decent man” has two “E’s”; “lying azzhole” has one. That’s one way to keep the two straight.
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Bob Kerrey would have to run as an independent to get into office again. Regardless of his stance on any issue, mere fact that he puts his duty to this nation ahead of partisan bullshit will make him persona non grata amongst the jackass party.
I would happily trade a hundred John Boehners for one Bob Kerrey.
More guys like this on both sides of the aisle would be a great start.
I agree with you 100%
VOV…Here-Here!
I was just reading an article that drags in the Bush/Cheney spectre. Again. It is painfully obvious that the progressives are starting a witch hunt in the hopes of distracting the voting public enough to put another commu…ah…PROGRESSIVE in the WH.
I hope and pray that the American public doesn’t fall for this nonsense again.
And as far as our NATO “allies” being “embarrassed” about that report…NUTS to them. Perhaps more appropriately — they need to go find the ones they lost.
Although, it’s not possible to lose something you never had in the first place. That would include FREEDOM.
Excellent reference. Regards to Gen McAuliffe of the 101st, especially this time of year.
I would trade a thousand Boehner’s for this Kerrey. I would also toss in every stinking RINO in the entire DC AO.
I have been watching this pretty closely and it is good to see that Feinstein and the rest of the libs are getting a ton of blowback from their stupid little stunt to foist a shitload of crap on the American public.