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CIA Director says Cheney sounds like he is ‘wishing that this country would be attacked again.’ In her profile of CIA Director Leon Panetta in this week’s New Yorker, Jane Mayer reports that Panetta believes former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again”:
Panetta, pouring a cup of coffee, responded to Cheney’s speech with surprising candor. “I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue,” he told me. “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. I think that’s dangerous politics.”
The language Cheney has chosen to use has suggested he is anticipating another attack. In a CNN interview earlier this year, he explicitly fear-mongered that Obama is “making some choices” that “raise the risk..of another attack.” And in an interview with Politico, Cheney “warned that there is a ‘high probability‘ that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.”
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Pelosi ratings are low because she caves in to republicans like throwing impeechment off the table for bush most dems want his hide so the damn worm does not resurface like cheney,rove, and other assorted yellow right wing trash.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 17th district In office January 3, 1993 – January 22, 1993 Preceded by Cal Dooley Succeeded by Sam Farr
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 16th district In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1993 Preceded by Burt L. Talcott Succeeded by Don Edwards
Born June 28, 1938 (1938-06-28) (age 70) Monterey, California Political party Democratic Profession Lawyer, professor Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. An American Democratic politician, lawyer, and professor, Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993. He is the founder and director of the Panetta Institute, served as Distinguished Scholar to Chancellor Charles B. Reed of the California State University System and professor of public policy at Santa Clara University. In January 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Panetta for the post of CIA Director;[1][2] he was confirmed by the full Senate on February 12, 2009 and assumed the office the next day.
Sure....this guy would appear to have his finger on the pulse of Americana......he is a Dem politician.....that worked for the Sec of States husband.....what do you think he will say?????
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I have heard of all of them.....but must admit that I know very little(if any details).....
So let's focus on water boarding....
I gather that you think that it is torture?
I personally do not think that it is; but, what I think is not changing anything. So, asked a different way.....
So what if it is?? I realize that under torture people will tell you lies to get you to stop.....so what? They only lie if the truth does not satisfy you. They lie to you...you follow it...figure out it was a lie....keep waterboarding them....they lie again............................repeat as many times as necessary.
I hold no ill will to anyone from any country....but I put mine first (not saying that you do not.....we just disagree here).
So, I am not a proponent of torture; but, if it gathers useful information in a timely manner.....I say "rack'em, stretch'em, draw and quarter'em, .....dig out a text on the Spanish Inquistion and go nuts with it........
I am intentionally over exagerrating.....but i believe that our nation is the only nation that would even argue this point....."personally" I think that given the opportunity, our combatents would use any and every means at their disposal to solicit information from a P.O.W.......unfortunately I care nothing about the moral "high road." Waterboarding is on the verge and I understand that......I still think that it is a hell of lot more humane than what "they" would do given the opportunity ( David Pearle)......
It is a war.....and I will not concern myself with trying to show the enemy that I am their better.....I say "show them that were stupid to even consider the notion of a victory."
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