CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked

[larrymeyer]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090614/...a_cia_cheney_1

CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked


Jun 14, 4:10 pm ET
WASHINGTON (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.

[Morel42]

Can't say I'm suprised.. Keep people afraid and they usually lose what little intellegence they have..

[Adam-12]

Hilarious. The torture hasn't stopped, isn't going to stop, and this little media cat-fight only helps Obama by supporting the pretense that anything's different.

[tourrider]

I stopped reading after

"Leon Panetta says..."

[ALS]

So what he is saying is the CIA feels there a good chance of an attack on this country. When it happens they want to blame Bush and Cheney for that attack for wishing it would happen. These idiots we put in office never change. It is always someone else's fault when the SHTF on their watch.

[1861]

I stopped reading after

"Leon Panetta says..."

Good place to stop .

[Philbert]

I had a distinct feeling during the last Bush term that some people wanted us to lose in Iraq.

[Morel42]

I had a distinct feeling during the last Bush term that some people wanted us to lose in Iraq.

I donno about that..

But I do know that nobody knew what the hell a win would look like..

[MostlyHarmless]

We were attacked under Bush because he was a diplomatic disaster. We are going to be attacked under Obama because he is too soft. We would have been attacked under McCain because he'd been too tough, under Hillary because she's a woman ...

... get it folks, no matter who's in charge, the radical's will always find an excuse for their terrorism.


Jan

[Adam-12]

But I do know that nobody knew what the hell a win would look like..

Sure we did! When we invaded, a "win" looked like a pro-western secular democracy that was friends with the US and Israel. A little later, a "win" looked like a country that wouldn't collapse into utter chaos the minute US forces withdrew. Then, with the surge, a "win" looked like Iraqis killing fewer US soldiers than usual--"sectarian violence is down."

What nobody knew, except maybe Cheney and a select few that might have included Bush, is what the hell we invaded for in the first place.