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| 2009-06-15 | |||
| 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."
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.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #16 she has recently had serious cosmetic surgery so get ready as health care comes to the table. What? A new set of titties? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-06-15 21:58 |
| #15 ION REDDIT > NORTH KOREA MAY LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ THE USA ["Death to the USA" threat courtesy of the NK Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces]??? "EARLY PHASE OF ALL-OUT CONFRONTATION" agz the USA > IOW, NOKOR plans to contin to "push the envelope" of Asian nuclear brinkmanship, which in turn means POTUS BAMMER MAY HAVE A KOREAN WAR II [nukulaar?] ON HIS ADMIN'S HANDS 2010-2012, OR SOONER??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-15 19:51 |
| #14 ION REDDIT > NORTH KOREA MAY LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ THE USA ["Death to the USA" threat courtesy of the NK Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces]??? "EARLY PHASE OF ALL-OUT CONFRONTATION" agz the USA > IOW, NOKOR plans to contin to "push the envelope" of Asian nuclear brinkmanship, which in turn means POTUS BAMMER MAY HAVE A KOREAN WAR II [nukulaar?] ON HIS ADMIN'S HANDS 2010-2012, OR SOONER??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-15 19:51 |
| #13 Either careless words, cynical, or political move, this is a crap statement. Would a bridge or fire inspecter find a situation dangerous and then sit back wanting something to go wrong to prove a point? I'd like to add the lawyer/career poltico family apointee to Health Human Services who has no medical background and played party political hack instead of reacting to state emergencies as governor; she has recently had serious cosmetic surgery so get ready as health care comes to the table. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-06-15 17:28 |
| #12 Panetta has done the near-impossible - as a Bambi appointee, surprised me on the downside. He was always a fairly reasonable sort - in general heads above the appalling and bizarre current leadership of the Dems - but this is pathetic is a characteristically Bambi-ish way: amateurish, inappropriate, wrong. Leon joins the list - a buffoonishly unprofessional press secretary (and that amidst a fawning and unprofessional "press" corps the likes of which this country has never seen) who regularly insults huge swaths of the electorate in dodging semi-soft questions; a Treasury secretary who arguably has the worst resume of anyone in that position in decades (presided over the greatest financial disaster in the era of regulation), and is a bumbling administrator and jaw-droppingly crude tax cheat besides; and on and on (the DOE guy seemed kooky from the outset, he's outdoing himself now with silly and irresponsible talk and "ideas"). But there's nothing random about this. America is, at least with respect to half or more of the populace, and 90% of the "elites", no longer a serious country. This was clear before November (the whine-fest over Iraq in 05-07, prominently). I'd say the intellectual, ethical, and talent levels we're seeing, from the Oval Office on down - while humiliating and astonishing - are exactly what the country deserves. Tragically, the rest of us have the eat the awful cooking served up by the idiots around us and above us. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-06-15 15:42 |
| #11 The Twoothers never _acted_ like the government caused 9/11, they just used it as an excuse to justify what they always believed in, i.e. there is no foreign threat to national security, and implementing the liberal policies of social control and deindustrialization are more important. It's never worth killing over, but it's always worth setting up another bloody-minded caste system where only the supporters of the regime get to have jobs, or patronage, or whatnot. If that isn't hardball politics, I don't know what is. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-15 13:31 |
| #10 Director Panetta is clearly falling into the "nirther and troofer" category as so eloquently explained yesterday. Nothing of the sort. Panetta is playing hardball politics. Troofers think the government caused 9-11. Nirfers... well, you're the resident expert on that. I'm surprised to see such drivel here. Not really. We get to read your posts on a daily basis. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-06-15 12:29 |
| #9 He doesn't want it to happen, he just thinks the current policies are making it more likely. He doesn't want us attacked, he wants you to succeed in keeping it from happening by reverting to previous policies which he believes were the reason we were not attacked. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-15 11:57 |
| #8 Sounds like something a White House Chief of Staff would say. Perhaps Leon forgot he has a new job now. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-06-15 09:04 |
| #7 Wha marooon. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-06-15 08:47 |
| #6 Director Panetta is clearly falling into the "nirther and troofer" category as so eloquently explained yesterday. I'm surprised to see such drivel here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-06-15 08:07 |
| #5 Given the on the record statements of Reid, Pelosi, et al of the Donks, by construct of the point we can now take it from Leon that the Donks did want us to lose in Iraq and encourage the enemy to kill more of our sons and daughters for simple political gain. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-15 07:54 |
| #4 They do like playing with straw and building things. Problem is straw can't take much pressure and falls apart real easy. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-06-15 07:12 |
| #3 Amateur hour in Langley. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-15 05:42 |
| #2 They sure have a way with words. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-06-15 04:10 |
| #1 It's also 'as if' Leon is looking for an advance out. It's certainly not going to be Leon's fault! |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2009-06-15 01:57 |