{"id":57060,"date":"2014-12-11T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57060"},"modified":"2014-12-11T10:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:32:40","slug":"bob-kerrey-slams-torture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57060","title":{"rendered":"Bob Kerrey slams “torture report”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Democrat Senator, Medal of Honor recipient and a Navy SEAL Bob Kerrey took sometime yesterday to criticize in USAToday<\/a> his colleagues in the Senate for the so-called “torture report” that they released the other day. Apparently, he’s not too happy with it for many of the reasons that folks on the other side have cited;<\/p>\n

I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it.<\/p>\n

When Congress created the intelligence committees in the 1970’s, the purpose was for people’s representatives to stand above the fray and render balanced judgments about this most sensitive aspect of national security. This committee departed from that high road and slipped into the same partisan mode that marks most of what happens on Capitol Hill these days.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Senate’s Intelligence Committee staff chose to interview no one. Their rationale – that some officers were under investigation and could not be made available \u2013 is not persuasive.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I will continue to read the report to learn of the mistakes we apparently made. I do not need to read the report in full to know this: We have not been attacked since and for that I am very grateful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve mostly liked Kerrey, because he has been one of the few who took his job in the Senate seriously, unlike his similarly-named colleague who also served in Vietnam. He makes valid points in this opinion piece – mostly that it had it’s roots in dealing punishing blows to the historical record and to cover up their own failings in regards to the war against terror. <\/p>\n

Kerrey also points out that there are no recommendations in this report to avoid that which the Senate Democrats consider corrupt or distasteful. Not that it makes any difference – there were recommendations in the 9-11 Commission’s report which were never adopted either. <\/p>\n

Democrats have generally been more opposed to Republicans than they are opposed to terrorism. I can only hope that they take notes from Kerrey, and for the next two years put the country’s interests ahead of their own petty political agenda. Yeah, I know, I had a hard time typing that with a straight face, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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