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EVEN SCHEUER THINKS OBAMA HAS AIDED THE ENEMY!
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — FORMER CIA AGENT AND IRAQ WAR/BUSH CRITIC MICHAEL SCHEUER/WASH POST: ... in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology -- a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" -- cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. ... Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the ...

Please Stop Saying Stupid Things.  Love, America
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Suppose that a major terrorist attack happens on, say, September 10th, 2009.  Exactly how long until “patriots” and “serious people” call for Obama to be tried for treason?  ...

The Justice Department Memos Farce
The New Editor — Chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 Michael Scheuer, on the release of the CIA interrogation memos: Americans should keep this worst-case scenario [a potential nuclear attack on the US] in mind as they watch the tragicomic spectacle taking place in the wake of the publication of the Justice Department's interrogation memos. It will help them recognize this episode of political theater as another major step in the bipartisan dismantling of America's defenses based on the requirements of presidential ideology. George W. Bush's ...

Obama Put His Personal Beliefs Before America's Security
Gateway Pundit — Michael Scheuer at The Washington Post explains how Barack Obama has put his personal beliefs before America's security. Obama believes that if we are nice to the enemy then we will not be attacked. We will all likely pay for the president's ignorance. Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation ...

Pro-Torture Buffoonery in the WaPo
Lawyers, Guns and Money — I must credit Michael Scheuer; all previous efforts at pro-torture buffoonery pale in comparison to this: In surprisingly good English, the captive quietly answers: 'Yes, all thanks to God, I do know when the mujaheddin will, with God's permission, detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States, and I also know how many and in which cities." Startled, the CIA interrogators quickly demand more detail. Smiling his trademark shy smile, the captive says nothing. Reporting the interrogation's results to the White House, the CIA director can only shrug when the ...

Scheuer Shanks The Prez
Op For — Michael Scheuer, late of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit-- perhaps you've heard of him?-- sticks it to the President: Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder's identifying ...

Obscene and Fatuous Wash Post Piece On The Joys of Torture
TPMCafe — ... The Post had an amazing piece yesterday (featured very prominently) by former CIA spook Michael Scheuer on torture. It celebrates the marvelous utility of torture and portrays President Obamas as a silly adolescent for being uncomfortable with it. See Richard Silverstein's ...

Sympathy for the Company?
Patterico's Pontifications — ... , who was allowed to publish the book Imperial Hubris as part of the bureacracy’s anti-Bush campaign. Indeed, he penned a fairly blistering op-ed on the subject in the Washington Post yesterday. ...

Implausible Hypothetical Cases Make Bad Law
Matthew Yglesias — Michael Scheuer sets about to prove that torture is awesome: In surprisingly good English, the captive quietly answers: ‘Yes, all thanks to God, I do know when the mujaheddin will, with God’s permission, detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States, and I also know how many and in which cities.’ Startled, the CIA interrogators quickly demand more detail. Smiling his trademark shy smile, the captive says nothing. Reporting the interrogation’s results to the White House, the CIA director can only shrug when the ...

What to do with the CIA
The Reality-Based Community — ... cast doubt on its professionalism and effectiveness. Moreover, the whole tripartite distinction between collection, analysis, and policy is mistaken and needs to be reconceptualized. When we look to recent leaders of the CIA to see whether they are up to this sophisticated task, what do we see? We see, for example, Michael Scheuer foaming at the mouth , arguing from an unrealistic hypothetical, and calling President Obama a "Jacobin" (He can't possibly know anything of the French Revolution or about Barack Obama to use the term in this manner.) This from the former head of ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Michael Scheuer: "Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology -- a fair gist of which is 'If the world likes us more we are more secure.'" ...

Two Views On the Torture Debate
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Some provocative reading in that regard today. First, Michael Scheuer the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit and no fan of GWB absolutely tees off on Obama in the pages of the Washington Post : Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside ...

Obama's personal morality and Israel's security
Israel Matzav — ... represented a radical shift in the way the United States does business. No President - at least in my recollection - has so explicitly attempted to stamp the nation and the world with his personal worldview and 'moral compass.' It behooves Americans - and Israelis - to examine what we might be in for in the next three and a half years. In Sunday's Washington Post, former CIA officer Michael Scheueur rips Obama for his behavior on the torture issue, arguing that Obama's worldview is fantastical and that he has no right to place American lives at risk to implement it (Hat Tip: ...

Michael Sheuer: Bammy's Narcissism and Naivete Are Going to Get People Killed
Ace of Spades HQ — Michael Sheuer: Bammy's Narcissism and Naivete Are Going to Get People Killed All worth reading. I'll just quote a few choice paragraphs. Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder's ...

Something Stupid This Way Comes
Confederate Yankee — Something Stupid This Way Comes Micheal Scheuer plays with fire : Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example. Americans should be clear on what Obama ...

Scheuer on interrogation
TigerHawk — ... big fan of Michael Scheuer in the past. Scheuer ran the CIA's bin Laden desk in the late 1990s, and came to fame post-9/11 basically saying that if only the world had listened to him, all of this could have been avoided. He can seem as though he has read all of the Tom Clancy novels and really fancies himself as Jack Ryan, the action-oriented intelligence analyst, and the Best Man in Government. More obviously, he is routinely as anti-Israeli as an old-school John Bircher. Scheuer's op-ed in Sunday's WaPo has threads of many of the above elements, but also makes some good ...

The Council Has Spoken!
The Glittering Eye — ... “Which city would you sacrifice?”. Second place honors went to Michael Scheurer’s Washington Post op-ed “Say Its Osama. What If He Won’t Talk?”. ...

Michael Scheuer: Obama Doesn’t Care ‘About Protecting Our Country’
Think Progress — ... Earlier this week, former CIA operative and torture apologist Michael Scheuer appeared on Fox News, where he told Glenn Beck (who nodded in agreement), “ ...