The bellicose Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a "disgraceful" Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and criticized his own party for what he described as a weak kneed response to the move."It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on," he said of the attorney general's move. He described the Holder investigation as a "declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense."
King is the the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
King defended in detail the interrogation practices — threats to kill a detainee's family, and or to kill a detainee with a power drill — detailed in a CIA inspector general report released yesterday.
The reality is there have been a litany of other illegal practices the CIA has engaged in and some of them were authorized by Vice President Dick Cheney with bogus legal opinions penned by John Yoo.
"You're talking about threatening to kill a guy, threatening to attack his family, threatening to use an electric drill on him — but never doing it," King said. "You have that on the one hand — and on the other you have the [interrogator's] attempt to prevent thousands of Americans from being killed."
This is typical fascist talk that would appeal to the most hardened Nazi: the end justifies the means.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/King_on_Holder_You_wonder_which_side_theyre_on.html
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