CIA Director says Cheney sounds like he is ‘wishing that this country would be attacked again.’

[marmar]

Well, duh..... :think:


from ThinkProgress:



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.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/14/cheney-another-attack/

[BuyingThyme]

1. Duh.

[magellan]

2. Well, it worked so well for him the first time.... n/t

[timeforpeace]

3. Panetta should keep his mouth shut.

Even if true, engaging Cheney like this is not what the CIA Director's job is. I don't think the CIA has the credibility with the public to go this route anyway. I'm afraid this will help Cheney.

[marmar]

4. I doubt it......Swine flu has a higher approval rating than Cheney.

n/t

[rvablue]

7. I think the person who needs to "keep his mouth shut" is Cheney. n/t

[Uzybone]

8. your mask is slipping, be more careful. Duct tape works.

[malaise]

5. Well misery loves company

and the country was attacked under Bush and Cheney's watch and no spin will change that fact.

[notadmblnd]

6. every time I see him on TV, I get the impression that he's attempting to incite

some one or some group to commit a horrendous act just so he can say "see I told you so."