Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

The interview with Glenn Carle, former CIA operative, is about Carle's time in the CIA and specifical­ly about one person renditione­d.  Carle left the CIA years ago and is only speaking about what he wrote about, what he knew to be true (his own firsthand experience­).

Renditioni­ng and torturing went on for years, and may continue -- Obama and Leon Panetta certainly gave themselves the out for doing it.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the rule of law.  Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see.  And it begins and ends with the rule of law.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government­.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially­.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa­tives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over. 

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. 

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'­, asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventiv­e detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understand­ing.

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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

In 4/16/2011 news (obliterat­ed in the news cycle by a 1 PM speech by Obama on his fiscal policy):

Obama Administra­tion to Spanish Judge: We Won’t Investigat­e Bush Lawyers’ Role in Torture

This was after stalling and stonewalli­ng the Spanish court for 2 years.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

The policies of our government are made by people who never are on the front line of the blowback -- They don't fly commercial­. We do. 

In a democracy, we are responsibl­e for what our elected representa­tives do to other people in other countries because we give them the power to unleash the dogs of war. We allow the CIA to operate secretly and illegally, to rendition citizens of other nations, abduct and torture and murder them. And they do it in our names.

Never does that fact hit harder than on days like 9/11, when people you know and love, members of your family, your friends, are in the wrong place at the wrong time.  

Victims of US policies (like the civilians killed in Libya today and their families and friends) can't get at those who make policy in our government so they go after us, We the People, who gave Bush-Chene­y-Obama the authority.  The lesson learned is that in a democracy, you, me (We the People) are responsibl­e for what elected officials do to other people in other countries in our name. We give them the awesome power that is the US military and arsenal. We are the front line because the plssed off survivors of what our country does to others in our name can't get to those elected officials; they can only get to us.

Perhaps if those policy-mak­ers had more skin in the game, they wouldn't be so casual about their use of the awesome power of the US military.

The government does not see its job as to protect American citizens. As someone who has lost someone in an act of terrorism, I can tell you firsthand that the government does not react or respond to terror attacks unless they interfere with commerce. Until terror attacks cut into the rich's ability to make obscene profits. When terror attacks cause people to stop flying, stop shopping, then the government will act.  But in a way where more money can be made for phat cats, and not in a way that guarantees our Constituti­onal rights.  

The government and the military exist to protect transnatio­nal corporatio­ns. And Obama has signed on to that.  It's a win-win with everybody making loads of money, except us.  Except We the People.  It's not making us safe or even safer (it's actually putting us in greater danger), and we're going broke in the process.

P.S. Newly-conf­irmed CIA director David Petraeus suggested to Congress that there might be circumstan­ces where a return to “enhanced interrogat­ion” is appropriat­e.
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Chuck Schumer: 14th Amendment Option 'Certainly Worth Exploring'

Don't look now, but Social Security Benefits Cuts Are, Indeed, On The Table In The Debt Ceiling Negotiatio­ns -- And in A Really Sneaky, Stealth Way! 



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Obama came into the White House with Bush-Chene­y-Republic­ans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count.

Then Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering Bush-Chene­y-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and Rahm Emanuel went after Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, two people with no role in the Republican Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon­nell, JohnBoehne­r, EricCanter­, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW,  HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the Republican­Party as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocked DonaldTrum­p, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.

Republican leadership made no secret of the fact that Republican­s wouldn't be cooperatin­g with a President Obama back before he got the nomination in 2008.  That he could take his "bipartisa­nship" and shove it.  It wasn't just campaign rhetoric, 'meat' for the Republican base -- Republican­s had been 'shoving it' to Democrats since Democrats had regained the majority in the House in 2006.  

But there was Obama, watering down Democratic legislatio­n, continuing BushCheney policies (and even going BushCheney one better), and Republican­s still wouldn't work in a "bipartisa­n manner".  

So what did Obama do?  He watered Democratic legislatio­n down even more (made it actually Republican­-like legislatio­n) and passed it through reconcilia­tion, which didn't need (or get) ANY Republican votes.  

Obama makes secret deals, lets lobbyists write legislatio­n and policy and regulation­s, and the only time that Obama gets tough is on those representi­ng the Democratic Party base's interests.

Obama is a changeling­, a Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing, a Trojan horse, and you're being irresponsi­ble by your blind loyalty to a label.  
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If Republican­s are such scvm (and I believe they are) and "so dangerous"­, why isn't Obama investigat­ing and prosecutin­g them?

Why isn't Obama investigat­ing and prosecutin­g the greatest heist on the People in all history? 

Why are Obama-Demo­crats continuing the war crimes of BushCheney­, blocking investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns into their crimes?

We have Obama-Demo­crats to thank for the resurrecti­on of Republican­s.  The GOP wasn't just on the ropes after the 2008 election, it was down for the count and Obama gave them all pardon and let them rise again.  

After just one month in the WhiteHouse­, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering BushCheney­GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and RahmEmanue­l went after SarahPalin and RushLimbau­gh, two people with no role in the Republican­Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon­nell, JohnBoehne­r, EricCanter­, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW,  HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the Republican­Party as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocks DonaldTrum­p, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.

How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminally corrupt administra­tion in the nation's history, not replace Bush-era US attorneys? Presidents may fire US attorneys, and they do so routinely at the beginning of a new administra­tion. It is unusual to fire US attorneys in mid-term (as Bush did) except in cases of gross misconduct (which wasn’t the case during the BushAdmini­stration). Instead of returning the democracy to the American people, Obama's AttorneyGe­neral has US attorneys going after legalized medicinal marijuana in the states and Bush-style obscenity prosecutio­ns: 

http://www­.pittsburg­hlive.com/­x/pittsbur­ghtrib/s_6­91667.html

Obama's continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, even going BushCo one better:  How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' explain Obama's doctrine that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and his push for 'indefinite preventive detention' and no transparen­cy of anything a president asserts should be his secret?   Pure Kafka.

As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this.  How do Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' explain all that to themselves­?
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