Peter King: You Wonder Which Side The Obama Administration Is On

Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is quite up in arms about the investigation of CIA interrogation techniques, airing his objections in an interview with the Politico. Indeed, he wonders which side the Obama administration is on:

“It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on,” he said of the Attorney General’s move, which he described as a “declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense.”



“You’re talking about threatening to kill a guy, threatening to attack his family, threatening to use an electric drill on him – but never doing it,” King said. “You have that on the one hand – and on the other you have the [interrogator’s] attempt to prevent thousands of Americans from being killed.”

“When Holder was talking about being ‘shocked’ [before the report’s release], I thought they were going to have cutting guys’ fingers off or something – or that they actually used the power drill,” he said.

King also asked this question: “Why is it OK to waterboard someone, which causes physical pain, but not threaten someone and not cause pain?”

And as we all know, it’s okay to waterboard someone, since that has not in any way been the subject of arguments or controversy.

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