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Always To The Right on Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:56:22 AM
Who let a group of psychologists harpoon Barack Obama's choice for
CIA director? Of all the pleasant surprises in the president-elect's
appointments, John Brennan might have been the best.
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Some 200 "psychologists and allies" on Monday sent an open letter to
President-elect Obama calling on him to reject his likely appointment
of quarter-century CIA veteran Brennan to head the spy agency, citing
Brennan's support for what they repeatedly called "dark side" policies
— specifically harsh interrogation of terrorist detainees. Brennan was
ex-CIA Director George Tenet's chief of staff from 1999 to 2001, deputy
executive director from 2001 to 2003, and was with the agency during
its implementation of the "black sites" program.
If America starts letting shrinks and guidance counselors determine
our intelligence practices, we will never be any match for the
bloodthirsty fanatics who will stop at nothing to destroy the Western
world's freedoms.
What a perfect example of arrogant "experts" wading out past their
depth and beyond their field of knowledge. The business of protecting
this country should be left to those who have proved they know how to
do it. The CIA terrorist interrogation program and the National
Security Agency terrorist surveillance program have been key components
of a strategy that has prevented any repeat of the 9/11 terrorist
attack.
For a group of psychologists to presume to know what "alienates our
allies, strengthens the commitment of our enemies, and puts our own
captured soldiers at risk," as the Soldz group claims, is laughable.