Remember this tomorrow when Obama’s taking his victory lap at Ground Zero.
(Fox News) — In between applauding President Obama for overseeing the successful raid on Usama bin Laden’s compound, some Republicans and ex-officials are starting to question what they see as a disconnect: How can the administration be investigating CIA agents whose techniques may have led America to Al Qaeda’s top guy?
They’re calling on the Obama administration to not only restart the CIA interrogation program in some form, but to end once and for all the Justice Department’s probe of CIA employees.
“You can’t have it both ways,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News. “You can’t have the attorney general prosecuting CIA interrogators, by the way, who may have gotten information that may have aided in catching Usama bin Laden.
“It just doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said. . . .
Attorney General Eric Holder launched that investigation in late 2009, appointing a special prosecutor to review cases of possible detainee abuse at the hands of CIA agents. Around the same time, the administration shifted responsibility for interrogations of top terror suspects away from the CIA. At the beginning of his term, Obama had ordered that interrogations stick to the guidelines in the Army Field Manual.