Obama Soft on Terrorism

October 4, 2007 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Politics, Terrorism, Terrorists

White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Thursday condemned the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation techniques and said the Bush administration’s reported authorization of such methods “is an outrageous betrayal of our core values, and a grave danger to our security.”

Obama responded to a report in The New York Times that said the administration, while publicly denouncing torture, secretly allowed the most aggressive interrogation techniques ever used by the CIA, including “water-boarding,” sleep deprivation and slaps to the head, as well as keeping suspects in frigid temperatures for extended periods of time.

The only thing dangerous to our National Security would be to have a President that thinks the above described methods of interrogation constitute torture.

-Chris Jones