Cheney At It Again
This new information, from the New York Times:
"Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
High-level N.S.A. officials who were responsible for ensuring that the surveillance program was legal, including the agency’s inspector general and general counsel, were not permitted by Mr. Cheney’s office to read the Justice Department opinion that found the eavesdropping legal, several officials said."
Boy, did someone know what they were doing when they named him Dick.
"Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
High-level N.S.A. officials who were responsible for ensuring that the surveillance program was legal, including the agency’s inspector general and general counsel, were not permitted by Mr. Cheney’s office to read the Justice Department opinion that found the eavesdropping legal, several officials said."
Boy, did someone know what they were doing when they named him Dick.
Comments
I'd like to hear Green Eagle's view on this; if he agrees or not and why.
It's a shame that this ignorant, demagogic, immoral party still has the power to force him to chose between those two things, But they do, and so I doubt if justice will ever touch Bush, Cheney and all of their associate war criminals.
I think the American people bear some of the responsibility for not acknowledging or accepting the law breaking.
I know it's an uphill battle against the entrenched powers and corporate media, but don't you think if enough people got outraged and made enough noise their elected representatives would take action?
Still, if I have to choose, I think I have to go with those 40 million people without health care first.
I must say that I believe Obama is dribbling all of this material out deliberately, to keep this issue at a simmer. After he has made progress on the economy, and health care, he will have such a reservoir of good will that he can attend to these injustices without the Republicans being able to drown him in an ocean of whining.