Originally Posted By Mr X ***Because every Administration does shady stuff, EVERY*** Ah, the old "everyone does it" routine. Sadly, it seems as though President Obama buys into it too. Pathetic. Besides, this isn't "shady". It's treason.
Originally Posted By Mr X "Contempt of Congress" I believe is the proper definition. What's the penalty for that?
Originally Posted By gadzuux Well here's what they're saying ... >> Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the new assertion [that VP Cheney directed the CIA to conceal this program] "looks to me suspiciously like an attempt to provide political cover" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats. Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying to her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding, or simulated drowning. << It's not "political cover", her comments were accurate in every way. And this ... >> "This continued attack on the CIA and our intelligence gathering organizations is undermining the morale and capacity of those organizations to gather intelligence," said Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. << So - to GOP hacks - even though CIA director Panetta HIMSELF issues the statement admitting to the agency's deliberate deception of congress, this is somehow "political cover" for democrats and a partisan "attack" on the brave men and women CIA. Got it. We wait for the next statement.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Those responses would be almost comical if they weren't so pathetic (and so thoroughly predictable).
Originally Posted By Mr X ***>> "This continued attack on the CIA and our intelligence gathering organizations is undermining the morale and capacity of those organizations to gather intelligence," said Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. << So - to GOP hacks - even though CIA director Panetta HIMSELF issues the statement admitting to the agency's deliberate deception of congress, this is somehow "political cover" for democrats and a partisan "attack" on the brave men and women CIA.*** Yup. That darned leftist CIA needs to stop attacking itself, immediately!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Douglas - are you out there? Where are you when we need you? I'd like to know what the GOP spin on all of this is. << I'll help him: The CIA was just trying to keep those heathen socialists in Congress from letting Osama Bin Laden blow up your children. God bless the CIA. How'd I do?
