Obama Gives Nod to Prosecute Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer is the fictional character hero of the television series "24". The series "24" has been quite accurate in its depiction of the great political, military, and cultural conflict of our time, the War against Terrorism. This season, Jack is hounded by a Congressional Investigation into his methods of interrogation. Jack will use any means possible to get information from terror suspects. To him, the safety of the country and the lives of individual citizens always get top priority, but the government does not agree, and so they hold a congressional investigation while the country is sabotaged right under the administrations' noses. Jack is often hampered by the government's inept beaureaucracy, but he gets the job done at great personal sacrifice, misunderstood and unappreciated.

This week President Obama agreed to let his attorney-general prepare charges against those in the Bush administration who might have used questionable interrogation methods in the aftermath of 9/11. They are after the Jack Bauers' who kept our country safe during the Bush presidency.

In "24" the plot changes from week to week. Does fiction imitate life or does life imitate fiction?

Last week Spain made noises about levelling charges against Bush administration officials for their handling of terror suspects. Then, inexplicably, Spain announced that it was withdrawing its threat. At the same time, Obama flip-flopped overnight from not prosecuting to prosecuting the Jack Bauers' of the Bush administration.

I sense that there is a Spanish connection somewhere in this sorry controversy.

In March 11, 2004 Spain suffered an Al-Qaeda inspired attack consisting of a series of coordinated bombings in the commuter train system of Madrid three days before Spains' general elections, in which 191 people were killed and 1,800 were wounded. It was Spains' 9/11. Spain's then incumbent administration which had supported the Iraq war lost the elections. Since then, Spain's ascendant government has been militantly anti-Bush to the point of vindictiveness. Spain has been at the forefront of the Leftist movement to prosecute George Bush. You would think that Al-Qaeda was in office in Spain.

When Spain continued its anti-Bush rhetoric this week, Bill O'Reilly of FoxNews hinted that he might initiate a boycott Spain movement because of Spain's state-sponsored anti-American propaganda. It appears that the media-hog Obama administration found a way to silence Spain by sacrificing the Jack Bauers rather than have O'Reilly steal the spotlight with his anti-Spain boycott, especially since the nationwide Tea Party anti-Tax protests have just been successfully held.

Thus, the flip-flop.

Here is the FoxNews timeline of Obama's statements on torture probe: Timeline

Here is the link to Spain retracting its threat: Spain retracts

Here is the O'reilly Video where he mentioned a boycott of Spain: Spain Boycott

Jack, get ready!