{"id":9668,"date":"2011-05-12T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9668"},"modified":"2011-05-13T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:56:47","slug":"senate-gop-tells-obama-to-shut-down-cia-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9668\/senate-gop-tells-obama-to-shut-down-cia-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP Tells Obama to Shut Down CIA Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/267112\/senate-gop-obama-end-dojs-unwarranted-investigations-cia-interrogators-robert-costa\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Costa<\/a> at <em>National Review<\/em> reports that certain members of the Senate GOP sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/global.nationalreview.com\/dest\/2011\/05\/12\/cornyn_letter_potus_20110512_e32c8ed6aad6587cfc916a054d9fd315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> to President Barack Obama demanding an immediate end to the Justice Department&#8217;s politically motivated investigation of CIA interrogators. \u00a0I published a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/57-homeland-security\/992-obamas-investigation-of-cia-interrogators-has-no-integrity-\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> this week concluding that the only reason this nearly two-year travesty is still being funded is because it plays to the president&#8217;s liberal base.<\/p>\n<p>The most troubling aspect of the president&#8217;s threatened but unlikely prosecutions is that they target interrogators who were acting under authorization from the Justice Department. \u00a0The fact that current U.S. Attorney Eric Holder takes a different view than his predecessors John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey is irrelevant. \u00a0Prosecuting people for activity that is only determined to be a crime after the fact is a violation of the Constitution&#8217;s <em>ex post facto<\/em> prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>If President Obama really wanted to thread the needle between following the law and pleasing his fellow liberals, he would shut down Holder&#8217;s after-the-fact prosecutions and \u00a0issue an executive order directing all federal personnel not to use whatever interrogation techniques &#8211; enhanced or otherwise &#8211; that he deems unacceptable. \u00a0That he&#8217;s instead choosing to make career civil servants sweat out indictments for doing their job is shameful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Costa at National Review reports that certain members of the Senate GOP sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding an immediate end to the Justice Department&#8217;s politically motivated investigation of CIA interrogators. \u00a0I published a column this week concluding that the only reason this nearly two-year travesty is still being funded is because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2682,143,139,1453,498,2684,733,2683,1266,2681,995,494],"class_list":["post-9668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alberto-gonzales","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-ex-post-facto","tag-interrogation","tag-john-ashcroft","tag-michael-mukasey","tag-senate-gop","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}