Yesterday Scott Johnson at Power Line posted a story about an encounter between Debra Burlingame and President Obama at his Ground Zero event. The story also appeared in a Washington Post Blog. A video of the encounter can be found at the Washington Post blog.
Debra Burlingame is the sister of the pilot whose plane was crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Power Line reports on the encounter:
"She (Debra Burlingame) said she was pleased Bin Laden had been killed, but was shocked when Mr Obama turned his back when she confronted him over the prosecution of the CIA agents who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
"She told Fox News: "I was very upfront, I said Mr President, I've been one of your most ardent critics, but on Sunday night I was very proud of you, I was very appreciative of what you helped make happen, and I was very proud of America.
""And then he hugged me, but then I said I have a question for you."
"She said: "As a former attorney I know you can't tell the Attorney General what to do, he said, 'No, I can't.'
""But I said 'we - that shouldn't stop you from giving your opinion. We wouldn't be here today if they hadn't done their jobs. Can't you at least give them your opinion.'
""And he said 'no I won't,' and he turned around and walked away.""
The Washington Post reports:
"In addition to eliminating the very techniques that allowed us to track down and kill bin Laden, Obama has permitted the Justice Department to reopen investigation of previously cleared CIA operatives. Muskaey explains: " I say 'reopening' advisedly because those investigations had all been formally closed by the end of 2007, with detailed memoranda prepared by career Justice Department prosecutors explaining why no charges were warranted. Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that he had ordered the investigations reopened in September 2009 without reading those memoranda. The investigations have now dragged on for years with prosecutors chasing allegations down rabbit holes, with the CIA along with the rest of the intelligence community left demoralized."
The killing of Osama Bin Laden was made possible by good intelligence work. It would not be wise to interfere with any of that kind of work while we are fighting the war against radical Islam.
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