CIA: Cheney wants the US attacked, or invaded or nuked or drowned or ....

CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked
Sun Jun 14, 2009


WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine's June 22 issue.

"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial interrogation methods such as waterboarding, has become as a leading Republican critic of Obama's ban on harsh interrogations and his plan to shut the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In a blistering May 21 speech, Cheney said Obama's reversal of Bush-era policies were "unwise in the extreme" that would make the American people less safe.

Panetta called Cheney's actions "dangerous politics."

He told The New Yorker he had favored the creation of an independent truth commission to look into the detainee polices of former President George W. Bush. But the idea died in April when Obama decided such a panel could be seen as politically vindictive.




OMG - I wonder, how many people on earth do not know that: Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial interrogation methods such as waterboarding ...

I cannot imagine there is one person on earth not aware of this fact. AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? Why does it need to be inserted, as if to argue against Cheney - anything he says is tainted by ... interrogation / waterboarding.

Why is the CIA Director commenting on political issues? Shouldn't he be watching his daughter and ensuring she isn't off with Chavez. That is as relevant as his idiotic comments.

And what about when Obama or Clinton or Biden were attacking the CIA, arguing the US was less safe as a result of actions taken by the Bush administration.


Bloody hypocrits.

I know I feel oh so much less safe now.











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