Just getting caught up on some semi-old news.
Our comment from our post as to why the President would feel compelled to release the CIA interrogation memos:
Because of the timing of the announcement, I can't help but think that this is somewhat of a response to Dick Cheney's challenge to release the rest of the memo. As in, "I'll show you, you dirty rat".
Presenting that logic was kept from the main body of the post because we wanted to believe that the President would keep politics separate from national security. It looks as though we have again mis-underestimated this Administration’s motivations towards those ends.
This from WaPo and the “intense” debate as to whether or not to release the memos:
A source familiar with White House views said Obama's advisers are further convinced that letting the public know exactly what the past administration sanctioned will undermine what they see as former vice president Richard B. Cheney's effort to "box Obama in" by claiming that the executive order heightened the risk of a terrorist attack.
From an unlicensed plumber to a talk-radio host to a legislatively insignificant former Veep, this Administration’s penchant for expending energy... and items critical to national security... on peripheral political “foes” is curious as well as troubling.
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It makes perfect sense, if you make one assumption:
The mindset of "I am what matters; if it is good for me, it's worth doing."
I use to think folks who talked about folks doing that were being a bit unfair; then I got into a mild raiding guild in Warcraft (you don't have to understand that-- think of it as a bowling team with four or five teams) and met several folks who actually will sabotage everything-- even their own future gains-- for short term improvement, or revenge.
One in specific used some unfair influence to advance their team at the expense of the other teams, and additionally whined and cried unless they got the individual bonuses ahead of the rest of that team.
Now, in the next phase of gaming, that team has collapsed-- those who were used for have gone to other teams. On the down side, the entire guild is slowly dying-- a layer of trust has been removed.
I don't know what the point is, exactly-- this is just what I've seen writ small that reminds me of this situation.
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