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Obama’s 2014 Christmas Card to the CIA

By Judi McLeod ——--December 10, 2014

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Obama’s 2014 Christmas Card to the CIA
This time last year, the Obamas were figuratively thumbing their noses at out-of-work, winter-bound masses via multiple stories about their upcoming sixth-in-a-row, lavish Christmas holiday in Hawaii.
This year, only one story about the annual Christmas trek to Kailua can be found in the mainstream media or on the entire internet. So far, not a peep about presidential Christmas holidays 2014 on WhiteHouse.gov. “President Barack Obama plans to return to Hawaii again this year for his annual Christmas vacation, and he and his family will likely stay in the same beachfront neighborhood in Kailua where he's spent every holiday since being elected in 2008, sources told PBN. (Pacific Business News).
“While on Oahu, he typically spends a lot of time working out at the gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay, golfing with classmates from Punahou School and eating out at local restaurants such as Alan Wong's Restaurant in Honolulu and Buzz's Original Steak House in Kailua. “White House officials declined to comment on the president's schedule.” “On Nov. 7, PBN reported that a Chinese businessman had paid $9.5 million for a home that Obama once used as a vacation home in 2008, just before he was elected president. “Obama was most recently in Hawaii on Sunday morning, but not for long. Air Force One made a quick refueling stop at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam while returning to Washington from the Group of 20 summit in Australia.”
Is there more to the quiet-as-a-mouse 2014 Obama Christmas holiday than it’s too soon to swoon? No one really needs WhiteHouse.Gov to understand what Barack Obama has been up to during the 2014 Christmas holiday season: America is still smarting from Obama’s one-week-after-midterms Executive Amnesty that shields from deportation some 5 million illegal aliens; still reeling from shock that their own president appears to be fanning the flames of racial unrest as American cities are being looted and torched. But even after all that, Obama’s 2014 personal Christmas craftsmanship wasn’t finished. Yesterday came the black-edged Christmas card Obama and the Democrats sent the CIA. The Senate report is the most sweeping condemnation of the C.I.A. since the Church Committee, led by Senator Frank Church of Idaho, accused the agency in the 1970s of domestic spying, botched assassinations and giving LSD to unwitting subjects, among other misconduct. That report led to a series of new laws and restrictions on C.I.A. activities. (New York Times, Dec. 9, 2014) Based on lies, exaggeration and deliberately held back for years, the CIA smear arrived with long, viral legs on the Internet. The smear of the CIA has already crossed the ocean, where it was yesterday’s cover story on the Daily Mail in Britain. Most regrettably, the release of the smear campaign against the CIA endangers the lives of military personnel serving the USA abroad. For the hopelessly gullible who believe that Obama had nothing to do with the release, and that the smear campaign was solely the work of Democrat Senators like Dianne Feinstein and Republican ones like John McCain, this is Obama in his own words:
“Today’s report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence details one element of our nation’s response to 9/11—the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, which I formally ended on one of my first days in office.  The report documents a troubling program involving enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in secret facilities outside the United States, and it reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only inconsistent with our values as nation, they did not serve our broader counterterrorism efforts or our national security interests.  Moreover, these techniques did significant damage to America’s standing in the world and made it harder to pursue our interests with allies and partners.  That is why I will continue to use my authority as President to make sure we never resort to those methods again. “As Commander in Chief, I have no greater responsibility than the safety and security of the American people.  We will therefore continue to be relentless in our fight against al Qaeda, its affiliates and other violent extremists.  We will rely on all elements of our national power, including the power and example of our founding ideals.  That is why I have consistently supported the declassification of today’s report.  No nation is perfect.  But one of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our past, face our imperfections, make changes and do better.  Rather than another reason to refight old arguments, I hope that today’s report can help us leave these techniques where they belong—in the past.  Today is also a reminder that upholding the values we profess doesn’t make us weaker, it makes us stronger and that the United States of America will remain the greatest force for freedom and human dignity that the world has ever known.”
The loved ones of soldier protectors of freedom doomed by the release of America’s response to 9/11 via the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, should brace themselves for what is certain to be, coming grief and sorrow. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas, America, from the all-year-round, no-goodwill, most anti-American president in all of history.

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Judi McLeod—— -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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