The Get-Cheney Squad

"Men sleep
peacefully in their beds at night because rough men
stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

George
Orwell`s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric
Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the
"rough men"
who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too
far in frightening Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the engineer
of the September massacres.

Yet, it seems now indisputable that
those
CIA interrogators, with their

rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved
American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently
contended.

According to
The Washington
Times, which reviewed the newly declassified CIA
documents, those interrogators

"produced
life-saving intelligence that disrupted numerous terror
plots."

They elicited the names of al-Qaida
agents who planned anthrax attacks on Westerners and a
massive bombing of
Camp Lemonier, the

U.S. base in East Africa. They got the names of 70
recruits al-Qaida deemed
"suitable for
Western attacks" and of the men who made the bomb
used on the U.S. consulate in Karachi.

Iyman Faris, an al-Qaeda sleeper
agent and truck driver in

Ohio, is serving 20 years because of information the
CIA got from KSM and associates. Other operations
aborted include al-Qaida
"plots to fly
airliners into buildings on the West Coast, setting off
bombs in U.S. cities and planning to employ a network of
Pakistanis to target gas stations, railroad tracks and
the Brooklyn Bridge."

What were the
"inhumane"
techniques CIA interrogators used to uncover these plans
for the mass murder of Americans?

"Interrogators
lifted one detainee off the floor by his arms, while
they were bound behind his back with a belt,"
reports

The Washington
Post.
"Another
interrogator used a stiff brush to clean a detainee,
scrubbing so roughly that his legs were raw with
abrasions. Another squeezed a detainee`s neck at his
carotid artery until he began to pass out."

The CIA, we are told, used mock
executions to frighten captives and threatened to kill
KSM`s children and rape his mother. Power drills were
brandished in interrogation rooms.

Were any children killed? No. Was
anyone`s mother raped? No. Was the power drill used? No.

Was anyone executed in front of a
witness to make him talk? No. It was faked, as Sean
Connery
faked it in
"The Untouchables" to get an underling to blab to
Eliot Ness, aka Kevin Costner, about how he could take
down Al Capone`s mob.

As for threatening to kill the
children of our enemies, we did not do that in
"The Good War."
Instead, what we did was kill them in the thousands
every night in

air raids over Germany and Japan.

In the Tokyo firestorm of February
1945, the Dresden raid in March, and the atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, we killed
grandparents, mothers, fathers, wives, sisters,
daughters and sons of the enemy in the scores of
thousands on each of those days.

Can it be that the same United
States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his
Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima,
on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to
prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and
threatening, but never intending, to kill the children
of Khalid Sheik Muhammad?

Why is Barack Obama allowing these
prosecutions to proceed?

In 2004, career lawyers at Justice
looked over the same reports and concluded that
prosecutions would not serve the national interest.
Obama has himself said he wants to move on.

Now, he and Holder may not like
what was done back then, but who does? And where is the
criminal intent? These agents are not sadists. They were
trying to get intel to abort plots and apprehend
terrorists to prevent them from killing us. And they
succeeded. Not a single terrorist attack on the United
States in eight years.

Do we the people, some of whom may
be alive because of what those CIA men did, want them
disgraced, prosecuted and punished for not going
strictly by the book in protecting us from terrorists?

In its lead editorial Tuesday,
"Following
the Torture Trail,"
The Washington Post declaims,
"The real
culprits in this sordid story are the higher-ups,
starting with former President George W. Bush and former
Vice President Richard B. Cheney who led America down
the degraded path of state-sponsored torture."

But why is Obama yielding to the
clamor of a left that will not be satiated until Cheney
and Bush are indicted as Class A war criminals? Is that
in the national interest? Is it in Obama`s interest to
tear his country apart to expose and punish these CIA
agents?

In the 1960s, Robert Kennedy and
the boys at Justice set up a
"Get Hoffa Squad"
to take down Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. It was a
vendetta that succeeded.

This vendetta will not. For, on the
issue of national security, as Barack will painfully
discover, he is not more trusted than Dick Cheney or the
rough men at the CIA who did the harsh interrogations of
terrorists, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night.

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Patrick J. Buchanan
needs

no introduction to VDARE.COM readers;
his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His latest book
is Churchill,
Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its
Empire and the West Lost the World,
reviewed

here by

Paul Craig Roberts.