Just give Bill O Reilly one night off and his show comes up with something that is so bad and so below the belt that it warrants something to be written on ST. For God’s sake FOX, when Bill O goes off the factor, go off the air!

It started well with the talk of the CIA having low morale. That I can agree and can understand. I also think that CIA personnel should not be prosecuted and President Obama has also echoed this. He said that it would be the decision of the Attorney General whether people that wrote the memos would be prosecuted but would leave the CIA operatives alone.

The first guest was Donovan Campbell. He was saying that people can serve the CIA in the private sector as much as the public one. Laws are there to ensure that CIA agents are not outed out. That however does not apply to the 2 interrogators who are actually consultants roped in by the CIA. They are not bound by non-contractual laws of the CIA. They are not CIA agents. To say that these people are members of the CIA is like saying that Blackwater are elite Military Policemen in the army.

It is already ridiculous for me that the CIA is having these people in the first place. Why pay so much for something that your men are supposed to be able to do. Even if torture was part of the agenda then, they could have easily asked their Israeli allies on how it is done and train their troops to do so. Many countries around the world base their military training on Israeli advice, why can’t the US? Why pay so much for something that the CIA was supposed to do? Were they afraid that they would break the law in that way? Why is the US having mercenaries at all in the army? That is the main point I felt that Mr Campbell was wrong on.

Then comes the other guest. Before that, the stand in host, Luara Ingraham said that “They are treating these guys like criminals!”Of course they are! They are being accused of torture. We did not treat Bernard Madoff with less scorn did we? Neither did we treat Michael Jackson with less scorn even though he has yet to be proven guilty of anything!

The disturbing part comes from Bo Dietl, the other guest. It is okay to call the new practices Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, but it is another thing to say that it is interrogation. The difference is that this is not allowed in standard interrogation procedure and sort of implying that this should be the standard interrogation techniques used by cops. He even gave an example where he said that police would just let cars go by because they fear complaints! Now you know why the minorities hate the police so much? It is because there are a minority of police officers like you who spoil the name!

The thing that he said that I am sure many elements in the media would catch on is the fact that he asked the President a question he really should not have : If the President’s children were kidnapped by Al Qaeda, would he want to “interrogate”?

You really want to get wife and kids involved in this? When are people going to learn that one should never bring out sentiments when you are making a decision? You think Roxana Saberi’s mum would not want a nuclear strike on Iran to free her or the parents of the 2 journalists kidnapped in North Korea would not support an invasion into that country to get their kids out. Would that mean that the US should attack Iran and North Korea as well? Obviously not!

This was terrible behavior by the guest and the host. She did not do anything to stop it at all. Bill O Reilly would never have allowed this to happen. He would would have cut the guest off might have even apologize for something like this being said..

This is the worst yet this year. I hope Bill O never bring Laura Ingraham, and Bo Dietl on on air again. They are terrible! Though FOX News is the right wing version of MSNBC, this is something that is low even for their standards!

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