Obama blinks on detainee photos!

The water gets deeper for Nancy Pelosi. Boy, if you’re a Democratic politician you know you are in trouble when even liberal outlets like the St. Petersburg Time’s Politifact or Jon Stewart are calling you a liar.

For all his faults Barack Obama isn’t a dummy, and can certainly tell when the tide is turning. Today, the O-Team announced that they would not release photographs of military abuse of detainees from Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis that it would “not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by small number of individuals.” Yowza. That’s been the Bush defense for years, and much to the media and Left wing kookhouse’s chagrin, it defies the (false) notion that the Bush teams legalese created an environment of abuse.

“In fact,’ he [Obama] said, “the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in greater danger.”

And, he added, distribution of the photos could also have a “chilling effect on future investigations of detainee abuse.”

Now, this is all true, and well and good, but, let’s not kid ourselves. Obama is reversing course because he knows he’s in a politically unpopular fight with the mass public, and one that if followed through will indeed bring down key Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Jay Rockefeller, both whom were intelligence committee leaders who quietly endorsed the very CIA tactics they later attacked Bush for permitting.

Want more proof the Democrats are in a losing fight: they’ve resorted to the “CIA is out to get us” defense. Well, if the CIA wasn’t before they will be now that they see the Democrats as using them as scapegoats.