Former CIA director George Tenet, left, and former President George W. BushPablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
From Time Magazine:
As CIA Director Leon Panetta journeys to Capitol Hill to testify this week, there is reportedly a movement afoot in the Obama Administration that could diminish the agency's role in counterterrorism. Dubbed the "global justice" initiative, the new law-enforcement approach would give the FBI and the Department of Justice a more prominent part in collecting evidence against and questioning terrorists and bringing more cases to a civilian criminal trial, according to the Los Angeles Times. The CIA will still collect intelligence on counterterrorism. And no one right now is talking about putting a ban on CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects. But given the right political climate, that is where this initiative could be heading.
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My Comment: In other words .... let us go back to 9/10.