Not since Kennedy has a public official’s welcome with the CIA began to wear thin, but AG Eric Holder is gotten damn close.

“Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.

Durham’s mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees. Many of the harshest CIA interrogation techniques have not been employed against terrorism suspects for four years or more.”

Make no mistake that Barack Obama is behind this, and do not let the language “limited” fool you. This of course after this week’s “leak” of a report that states that CIA ops went over the line in questioning high level detainees.

The average American could care less if the mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole and 9/11 were waterboarded, had their kids – who are most likely terrorists too- threatened.

But more important it’s apparent that the pre-9/11 mentality is back in force, with the White House having it’s own “Beer Summits” with terrorist suspects to get them to talk. Additionally ABC News is reporting that Leon Pannetta is just about out of the job as Chief of the agency. For all we know there will be yet another Czar created from one of Obama’s former militant friends.

We know why this is picking up however. Obama’s numbers, his eroding public support, there has to be a distraction. I mean after all……

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