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With sinking numbers in the polls and his $2 Trillion Obamacare treading a slippery slope, our young president was getting flack from his socialist left; this, for his waffling on the “public option.” So he needed to throw them a bone. William Murchison’s August 25th post in Real Clear Politics relates the political use of the DOJ, a sorry tale indeed.

The power of the prosecutor is absolute in Anglo-American jurisprudence. It is a power to decide whether or not to prosecute. It holds the values of life, liberty, wealth, and reputation in its hands. It should be sacrosanct.

Here we have a case of much scrutinized actions by CIA professionals defending us against our enemies that was held at several levels to be within the bounds of legitimate interrogation. AG Holder initially declined to prosecute these people. He now has reversed himself for no apparent reason.

Attorney General Eric Holders decision to go after the CIA has all the earmarks of policy designed to make left-wing hearts palpitate.What other purpose could it possibly serve? Not that of national security or common sense……

You find on that peculiar quarter of the political spectrum a lust to punish former Vice President Cheney himself if not the president he served. Why rule out a battalion of CIA agents who imagined themselves to be preserving American lives?

Indeed, the Inspector Generals Report, which Holder cites as evidence of doing, says various interrogations gleaned “intelligence that has enabled the identification and apprehension of other terrorists and warned of terrorist plots planned for the United States and around the world.” How dare they warn us? Clap em in irons.

Really, is there a brain cell functioning properly in the Obama White House? What are these people thinking? Are they thinking? Yes, maybe. Heres what they might be thinking: The left of the left of the left got us here. Theyre mad enough at us now. Well throw them a little investigation, trying to explain it to moderates and conservatives — and well pray it works. Nothing else seems to these days, with the health care semi-debacle as Exhibit A.

This is just nuts. These White Housers, possibly including the president whose consent to this operation was required, dont have a clue. The game isnt worth the candle.

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This is a sad day for the United States; we now know that the top prosecutor will abuse justice for political ends.

Tom Motherway, tom@renohayek.com