CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked

[Deff Gordon]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...4131333?rpc=64

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. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Alan Elsner)

[J. Fees]

dick cheney, a true american(piece of shit)

[PETA]

Originally Posted by Deff Gordon

"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."

Obama could put and end to the circus by releasing the memos at issue which would either prove Cheney a liar or prove his critics wrong. It' almost like he's covering some one's ass?

[FarangBa]

Originally Posted by St. Stalin the Apathetic

Obama could put and end to the circus by releasing the memos at issue which would either prove Cheney a liar or prove his critics wrong. It' almost like he's covering some one's ass?

That would never happen, that would be like saying the CIA didn't tell you about waterboarding when......

[PETA]

yup... she got bitchslapped hard on the "I never knew" claim and the DNC would appear to be trying to protect themselves from further embarfassment by not letting her "ok, I knew but we didn't learn anything useful" crock of shit get proven wrong. It sucks but it is also politically expedient so whop can blame them.