Stand With Intelligence asks a very interesting question at their website-Reasonable Concern: Does the fact that Eric Holder’s law firm stands to make a lot of money by freeing Gitmo detainees represent a conflict of interest for the Attorney General’s prosecutorial policies?
The Washington Times covered their pre-launch, here. The following excerpt is from Human Events’ Rowan Scarborough in a feature story dated November 19, 2009 “Grassroots Effort to Help CIA “:
The group, StandwithIntelligence.com, sprung up last month as a counter to the Obama administration’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to re-investigate officers involved in harsh interrogations of al Qaeda kingpins.
Seven former CIA directors, under both Democratic and Republican presidents, urged President Obama not to go back on a campaign promise not to target the officers. But the president changed his mind and let Attorney General Holder reopen an investigation which had been closed for lack of evidence of wrongdoing by career prosecutors.
Members of StandwithIntelligence hope their group can educate the public on the damage the probe is doing, as well as head off any similar investigations as the war go on. In effect, the Obama administration is criminalizing the dirty, dangerous work of CIA officers trying to penetrate al Qaeda and find terrorists so they can be captured or killed before they strike America.
“Most serious military or intelligence people that have actually been on the ground doing the ‘business’ will tell you that the last thing in the world the CIA needs is to be paralyzed with fear of prosecution,” Ilario Pantano, a former Marine officer who fought in Iraq, told HUMAN EVENTS.
Pantano is a StandwithIntelligence member who became active in counter-terrorism causes after the Marine Corps prosecuted him on murder charges for killing Iraqi insurgents. A hearing officer rule Pantano acted properly. The Corps dismissed the charges, and Pantano left the Corps.
He told HUMAN EVENTS it is not just the Holder decision that is hurting intelligence collection.
Read the rest. Kudos to my friends at Stand With Intelligence for standing up to the forces that are nipping at the heels of our defenders. They not only include Ilario Pantano, but Michael Spann’s father, Buzz Patterson, Lt. Col Gordon Cucullu, Heidi Theiss and Major General John K. Singlaub.
Actually Red Mark, I don’t really care what you do. Go ahead. Knock your socks off. Devote all your time to pestering me…that way, Mel and whoever else you were bothering can get some R&R and rest easy. I wasn’t here most of today, so although you were sitting there stroking yourself and laughing at me, I wasn’t here!!! So keep the spam coming -you’re just showing me how small and pathetic you are.
Quite an accomplishment, I guess, for somebody sitting in his underwear with OCD.