Posted on 12/10/2014 8:22:04 AM PST by KeyLargo
'Very Sober,' Not 'Political': Halperin and Peters Defend Feinstein CIA Report
By Mark Finkelstein | December 10, 2014 | 8:23 AM EST
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Who were those guys on Morning Joe today—two Feinstein staffers? Nope, they were Mark Halperin and Jeremy Peters, making like Dem aides in defending the report on the CIA that Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein released yesterday.
Halperin, head of Bloomberg Politics, had the chutzpah to claim that the report was not "political." Peters of the New York Times then chimed in to say that in releasing the report, the Senate conducted itself in a "very sober" way.
Shall we count some of the ways the report was political—and sober as Miley Cyrus on New Year's Eve?
It was released just as Feinstein was about to be forced to hand over her committee-chair gavel after the Dems lost the majority last month.
It was released on the same day as Jon Gruber's testimony, thus assuring that coverage of "I'm with stupid" would be buried.
The drafters of the report failed to interview any of the CIA officers accused of misconduct.
CIA Director Michael Hayden, appearing earlier in the program, said Feinstein had been fully briefed on all the details in the report at least seven years ago.
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, also appearing earlier, said that rather than being fair-minded, the report had a "prosecutorial" tone, always seeking the "worst construction" of the CIA's actions.
Note: give Mika Brzezinski credit for her generally balanced handling of the matter this morning. Thus for example, in asking Halperin about the report, she said: "you certainly could see it as politically motivated, could you not?"
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Feinstein CIA Report is old news from an old has been loser
What Feinstein did was indefensible, IMO.
Methinks this is the beginning of the Fabians stamping out the last vestige of resistance to their “New World Order”, i.e. the American people, by outlawing the only party we have any influence over, i.e. the GOP.
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