Obama Struggles To Keep Transparency Promise

The Bush administration in its efforts to protect innocent civilians (like my wife and children) after 9/11 began using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) to extract valuable intelligence from captured mass murderers and their ilk. The opposing political party accused the Bush team of torture. As a shrewd political move, the Obama administration declassified and released portions of the EITs documents in April 2009, just enough to make the Bush people look bad. How has that kept my family safer?

House speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying, while denying she was briefed on these methods in 2002 and 2003. Those records have not been released. What did she know? When did she know it? How did she use that information to help keep America safe?

Since President Obama released only portions of the EIT damaging to the Bush team, former VP Dick Cheney has called on Obama to declassify all the EIT documents claiming that it will prove those interrogation techniques thwarted terrorist attacks, kept my family safe, and will exonerate the Bush administration. Obama declined.
The New York Times is reporting that a couple of insiders leaked to that newspaper information that Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta, has just revealed to Congress another counterterrorism program kept secret by the CIA under direct order from Dick Cheney.

I have had enough of these politicians playing the dirty politics of personal destruction at the expense of the safety of my family and yours. Obama was elected president because he promised complete transparency. Why won’t he make all the interrogations documents transparent now? What is he afraid of? Why won’t Obama order Panetta to release the CIA documents regarding the meetings with Speaker Pelosi? Why is it so difficult for the president to abide by his campaign promise? Does the administration think we are too stupid to make up my own mind if all the records are released? Shouldn’t we know which government officials truly protected our families and those working day and night to protect some cave-dwelling cold-blooded fanatical murderers?