ROFLOL - Joke of the Day

When Karl Rove was Chief of Staff at the White House under Bush, he was attacked by liberals for politicizing anything and everything in the White House. One example - the firing of the government attorneys. Democrats attacked Rove - he instigated it for political reasons they howled. In fact, everything Rove did, Democrats argued was political, and consequently, everything was tainted by political interest.



Then peruse the following ...





Obama spokesman announces interrogation unit


Aug 24 12:08 PM US/Eastern
By STEVEN R. HURST and DEVLIN BARRETT

Associated Press Writers


WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush's detainee policies.


The administration has also decided that all U.S. interrogators will follow the rules for detainees laid out by the Army Field Manual, according to senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision. That decision aims to end years of fierce debate over how rough U.S. personnel can get with terror suspects in custody.


The new unit does not mean the CIA is now out of the interrogation business, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters covering the vacationing Obama at Oak Bluffs, Mass.


Burton said the unit will include "all these different elements under one group," and it said that it will be situated at the FBI headquarters in Washington.


The unit would be led by an FBI official, with a deputy director from somewhere in the government's vast intelligence apparatus, and members from across agencies. It will be directly supervised by the White House, but the senior administration officials insisted the unit's agency bosses will make operational decisions, not the White House.





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So my question is - when Rove was in the White House, EVERYTHING the guy did was political. Now, under Obama, having the White House head the interrogation unit - THAT isn't political.





















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