Really, Washingtonians, Jim is a stain on the US Congress. When do you finally get around to saying enough is enough, and vote this dork out of office? Most folks would be embarrassed to have this idiot as a Representative.
Republicans stopped a provision that establishes criminal penalties for CIA officers that use cruel, inhuman or degrading interrogation methods from making it into the Intelligence bill passed Friday — but the leading Republican on the House intelligence committee said that provision is hardly dead.
“This is not the last time we’ll see the McDermott stuff,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra told The Daily Caller of the legislation authored by Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott. “It will come back. They will find every way that they can to make it law.”
Hoekstra said Pelosi and Reyes are “politically tone deaf to the concerns of career CIA and intelligence folks,” even though they say, “We support the CIA, we support the people on the field.”
“It’s kinda like no you don’t. If you did, you wouldn’t put this crap in there,” Hoekstra said.
Hoekstra said he can see some problems with the legislation that stipulates that interrogators can’t do anything offensive to the suspect’s religion.
“If you’re a Muslim terrorist being interrogated by a woman who’s not veiled, maybe that’s offensive to their religion,” he said. “If you’re a Jew interrogating a Muslim terrorist, they may be offensive. Muslims do not see Christians and Jews as being their equivalent. They see them as being inferior. So being questioned by someone who is inferior may be offensive to them.”
Democrats aren't ones to learn from history. It's not healthy to take on the CIA.
Posted by: Bobkat | February 27, 2010 at 07:19 PM