Jack Bauer Need Not Apply To Obama’s CIA

There are so many things wrong with the current investigation  launched by Attorney General Eric Holder into the activities of the CIA following 9/11 that it is difficult to know where to begin.  First of all, I don’t know if you can be politically correct when you are in a state of war and it is even more difficult for this writer to define torture when it does not result in permanent physical impairment including any physical signs of abuse,  or death.    Under normal conditions, one can wrap one’s head around mental abuse and torture and abhore its’ application.  Having said that, it is equally hard to think of security that does not apply some forms of intimidation to acquire information from the enemy.  I’m sorry but “pretty please” doesn’t cut it with the current crop of religious fanatics.

The 21st century war against terror must employ new methods to obtain information. Just like our Civil War which was fought with 19 century weapons, but used military strategy and tactics of an earlier age, intelligence gathering must meet the needs of the day.  The carnage that resulted on our own soil on 9/11 is testimony to a similar imbalance.  Congress and the Department of Justice obviously are locked into that disparity about what weapons are necessary to wage war.  Thank God that when the United States had to respond decisively and quickly to the first attack in history on its’ soil–notwithstanding the attack on Pearl Harbor when Hawaii was a protectorate–It Did So!  Were the old forms of torture such as bamboo shoots under the nails, dismemberment, beatings, and attacks on the family members of the terrorists applied by other nations during earlier wars and conflicts applied?  No.   Were large populations of Americans including whole familes interned into camps because they were racially identifiable?  No.  Were the relatively nonintrusive tactics employed by the CIA effective?  Yes!

But As For Me…

The trouble with any witchhunt is that it is usually conducted by those in power to divert citizens from the real issues–a scapegoat if you please.  There is a point in the process of defending the nation’s security that tactics normally not employed are reasonable and warranted.  An enemy that will self destruct to gain its’ objective demands a different method of interrogation.  Not pretty, but the price of freedom is not always pretty.  When it comes down to it, I for one would rather have a Jack Bauer on the C.I.A. payroll, than a Neville Chamberlain!

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