Two faced or a consistency of character?
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Obama says he won’t prosecute CIA personnel responsible for Enhanced Interrogation of Terrorists!
Obama says he might prosecute lawyers who said it was OK!
It is obvious that he did not change his mind. It he had, the CIA personnel would have been mentioned. However, what we see is a consistency in his character: hamstringing our ability to respond to external enemies. It does not matter if the action itself took place. What matters is if the potential for it to happen again would engender fear of political persecution – which is what the current threat of prosecution amounts too.