FRAUDSTER IN CHIEF
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged “a top to bottom review of the threats we face and our abilities to confront them.” He promised a sweeping overhaul of the Bush administration’s war on terror, which he criticized for compromising American values. But PBS FRONTLINE has learned from a former high-ranking CIA official that even before he took office, Obama’s team “signaled” they had no intention of rolling back secret programs begun under the Bush administration.
Ex-CIA Lawyer: Obama Changed "Virtually Nothing" from Bush Administration On Terror Policies
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a report tracking the erosion of U.S. civil liberties in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. The report concludes President Obama has continued a number of key Bush administration policies in the so-called "war on terror," putting the United States "at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values must be subordinated to ever-expanding claims of national security." In his first-ever televised interview, the former top lawyer at the CIA, John Rizzo, said the Obama administration has changed "virtually nothing with respect to existing CIA programs and operations."
In a preview of a forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary, John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs.
“I was part of the transition briefings of the incoming Obama team, and they signaled fairly early on that the incoming president believed in a vigorous, aggressive, continuing counterterrorism effort,” Rizzo said. “Although they never said it exactly, it was clear that the interrogation program was not going away. We all knew that. “But his people were signaling to us, I think partly to try to assure us that they weren’t going to come in and dismantle the place, that they were going to be just as tough, if not tougher, than the Bush people.” He added: “With a notable exception of the enhanced interrogation program, the incoming Obama administration changed virtually nothing with respect to existing CIA programs and operations. Authorities were continued that were originally granted by President Bush beginning shortly after 9/11. Those were all picked up, reviewed and endorsed by the Obama administration.”
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Ex-CIA Lawyer: Obama Changed "Virtually Nothing" from Bush Administration On Terror Policies
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a report tracking the erosion of U.S. civil liberties in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. The report concludes President Obama has continued a number of key Bush administration policies in the so-called "war on terror," putting the United States "at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values must be subordinated to ever-expanding claims of national security." In his first-ever televised interview, the former top lawyer at the CIA, John Rizzo, said the Obama administration has changed "virtually nothing with respect to existing CIA programs and operations."
In a preview of a forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary, John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs.
“I was part of the transition briefings of the incoming Obama team, and they signaled fairly early on that the incoming president believed in a vigorous, aggressive, continuing counterterrorism effort,” Rizzo said. “Although they never said it exactly, it was clear that the interrogation program was not going away. We all knew that. “But his people were signaling to us, I think partly to try to assure us that they weren’t going to come in and dismantle the place, that they were going to be just as tough, if not tougher, than the Bush people.” He added: “With a notable exception of the enhanced interrogation program, the incoming Obama administration changed virtually nothing with respect to existing CIA programs and operations. Authorities were continued that were originally granted by President Bush beginning shortly after 9/11. Those were all picked up, reviewed and endorsed by the Obama administration.”
PREVIEW
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TO SEE FULL PROGRAM UNINTERUPTED CLICK THIS LINK
http://video.pbs.org/video/2117159594
'TOP SECRET AMERICA' (THIS IS A MUST WATCH PROGRAM!)
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
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