Obama to Prosecute CIA Agents?

The Obama Administration has decided to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA agents on techniques used to question terrorist after the September 11th attacks. Today this exchange was on Foxnews Sunday between Chris Wallace and former Vice-President Dick Cheney:

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CHENEY: I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, Chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaeda. The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, how did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?

Instead, they're out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinions, threatening contrary to what the president originally said. They're going to go out and investigate the CIA personnel who carried out those investigations. I just think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage long term to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say.

WALLACE: Let me ask you -- you say you're proud of what we did. The inspector general's report which was just released from 2004 details some specific interrogations -- mock executions, one of the detainees threatened with a handgun and with an electric drill, waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times.

First of all, did you know that was going on?

CHENEY: I knew about the waterboarding. Not specifically in any one particular case, but as a general policy that we had approved.

The fact of the matter is, the Justice Department reviewed all of those allegations several years ago. They looked at this question of whether or not somebody had an electric drill in an interrogation session. It was never used on the individual, or that they had brought in a weapon, never used on the individual. The judgment was made then that there wasn't anything there that was improper or illegal with respect to conduct in question...

WALLACE: Do you think what they did, now that you've heard about it, do you think what they did was wrong?

CHENEY: Chris, my sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of American lives and preventing further attacks against the United States, and giving us the intelligence we needed to go find Al Qaeda, to find their camps, to find out how they were being financed. Those interrogations were involved in the arrest of nearly all the Al Qaeda members that we were able to bring to justice. I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years, we had no further mass casualty attacks against the United States.

It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well.

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Here's my interpretation of what Dick Cheney really wanted to say to Chris Wallace: F**k the Obama administration - what we did was right and if those chickensh*t little terrorist that wanted to destroy my country that I took an oath to defend can't take a few (mock) threats and a little water - oh who the hell cares. You ought to know what I really wanted to do to them bas**rds that plotted and planned the September 11th attacks, who behead and torture Americans including our military. These are the same terrorist that continue to strap on bombs that kill women and children. Do you REALLY think I give a rat’s ass what our CIA did to these terrorist to get critical information that saved Americans lives. . . .

Again. . . .Here's what I don't understand about the torture debate. . . .The CIA can't drip a little water over a terrorist head or make them uncomfortable in any way, even if they can get information that could save American's lives. . . . But the US Military can shoot them dead on the battlefield. So. . . . SHOOT THEM DEAD ON THE BATTLEFIELD. . . .End of Debate (No more need for Gitmo either).

Now all the Obama administration wants to do is give "Miranda Rights" to the terrorist. Why would anyone want to be in the CIA or on any administrations Legal Team when they can possibly be prosecuted later?

To read the full interview:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/30/cheney-slams-obamas-politicized-probe-cia-interrogations/