PRESIDENT OBAMA UNVEILS WATERBOARDING MEMOS

After a long legal battle to release the memos relating to waterboarding as sanctioned by the Bush administration, President Obama finally released these memos yesterday. The details in torture tactics the were endorsed and employed by the Bush administration were simply too gruesome. While Presdient Obama received widespread praise from the left for releasing the memos, as act of honoring his campaign pledge to promote transparency, both sides of the political debate are enraged. The left are furious because the president has balked at prosecuting officials involved in the torture of detainees and the right are enraged over the release of the memos, citing threat to national security as the release would give boost to terrorists. My take is that, President Obama did the right thing in releasing the memos and excercised the right judgement in not going after the Bush administration and CIA officials involved in torture of detainees.