Obama visits CIA

This piece is intended for an audicence abve the age of 18. The purpose of this piece is write an editorial on how Americas new president is cleaning up after George Bush's ignorance.

In late April, Americas newly founded President Barack Obama banned abusive CIA interrogations and closed the CIA's secret overseas jails in his second day in office,. With a few strokes of a pen, the president overturned years of wrongheaded policy by some within the Justice Department and White House who put policy outcomes above the law.It was reported there were 124 pages of secret memos written in 2002 and 2005 and they reveal how the Justice Department insiders twisted U.S. laws to allow techniques bordering on torture for some al-Qaida captives, including simulated drowning, confinement in tiny boxes, being slammed against walls and an insect torment.Some suggest the harsh methods helped avoid al-Qaida attacks -- but whether that's so, or whether the same information might have come from more lawful means but that would be impossible to say. Obama then gave a great speech in which he was quoted “Shine far more light on what was done to promote abuses, who did it and the context. Then, fix the flaws that allowed ideology and mistaken assumption to trump institutional knowledge. Expose the full range of documents, decision-makers and outcomes, but keep the focus on the truth, not punishment. And above all, do not let such a crucial probe slip into damaging partisan political attack. That would undercut any efforts to repair a broken system.”