A Really Gratifying Vote Of Confidence By Obama...

A Really Gratifying Vote Of Confidence By Obama...

in the respect for law of the CIA. When I was younger, the preferred explanation on the left for John Kennedy's assassination was that the CIA, in conjunction with right-wing capitalists, had done it because Kennedy was on the verge of withdrawing from South Vietnam. (The imminent withdrawal from Vietnam is a wonderful fantasy, completely unsupported by anything as troubling as actual facts.) Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and after 9/11, it was an article of faith in leftist circles that the CIA was at the core of all sorts of horrible shenanigans, both abroad and in the U.S.

Do a search in Google for the string "CIA JFK assassination"--you will get more than two million hits. Now many of those are refuting this craziness--but a lot of them are pretty typical leftist conspiracy theory stuff--right up there with the 9/11 Truthers, and the CFR/Trilateralist/Bilderberger crazies. The possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald, a long-time Communist sympathizer who had renounced U.S. citizenship to move to the Soviet Union, and a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, might have actually been involved (even if he was not alone)--that's just too bizarre for a crowd that has imagined John Kennedy as America's first leftist president.

Now, if the CIA was really this bunch of monsters, prepared to assassinate John Kennedy, overthrow peace-loving "agrarian reformers", and otherwise do horrible things throughout the world for something as abstract as a love of capitalism--what would they do if you started talking about sending some of their interrogators to prison for taking actions that even most Democrats supported at the time?

It's very clear: Obama doesn't buy into the paranoid leftist garbage about those monsters at CIA. How comforting!