’)I still support the idea of a non-spook running the CIA, at this point we don’t need an agency sympathizer smoothing over reform. But after reading this piece I wonder if Leon Panetta hasn’t already been compromised by insiders. I understand why the Obama administration may feel they need to move past the abuses of the Bush administration, but I strongly disagree with them on it. Bush and his policies have still left a major black mark on the American people. At the very least we should have a full accounting of the policies and people who broke the law in his regime. Panetta seems at best to be ambivalent about this, as is the President. They shouldn’t be.
Without prosecution, the past is not just prologue it is precedence!
And what really sucks is that everyone said Panetta has unimpeachable credibility before.
beltway hive mentality
Or maybe all of that “breaking the law” nonsense was a bunch of political hacks talking out of their asses.
Hey Jay, maybe it was — perhaps we should look into it, eh?
I think that is the point Oliver: Panetta, the democrat with the “unimpeachable credibility” did look into it, and found….nothing.
Unfortunately the true believers in “The Won” aren’t going to accept no for an answer and are rounding up “the usual suspects….”
I’m not about to trust a department head – regardless of party – to look into his own department’s misconduct.
I couldn’t disagree.
But it wasn’t HIS department, it was the evil “Boooshes”!
In fact, Panetta has all sorts of reason to investigate. He would look good to the true believers regardless of what he found, and if he decided that there was misconduct he would be credited with “cleaning up” the CIA. But unfortunately for the lefties, perhaps he does have “unimpeachable credibility” and unlike some other lefty partisan hacks, refuses to drag people through the mud for crass political gain (see “Schroeder, Patricia and “Tailhook” for examples….)
Panetta, the democrat with the “unimpeachable credibility” did look into it, and found….nothing.
Heh. Only if you keep your eyes closed really tight.