Green Eagle

Here's some absolutely contemptible news , from the New York Times: "The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. " Yes, you read that right. For the Bush administration, it wasn't enough to be utterly incompetent. You had to be utterly incompetent and extremely expensive. Needless to say, no one can point to any positive achievements from this marriage made in heaven. But, it was apparently worth "several million dollars." Nice work if you can get it. And apparently all it takes is to be a lying, murderous right wing "Christian" scum.

Any surprise out there at this story: "Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that the agency "concealed significant actions" from Congress, according to a letter released Wednesday from seven Democratic lawmakers. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes sent a separate letter on Tuesday to the top Republican on his committee saying that Mr. Panetta's appearance led him to conclude that the CIA had "affirmatively lied" to the committee." CIA lied. Two words that go together like ice cream, or Les Paul.