Posted on 05/15/2009 12:12:38 PM PDT by GOPinCa
CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms.
His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job.
Panetta's note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office. Here's the key graph:
"Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing the enhanced techniques that had been employed. Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened."
The full Panetta memo is after the jump.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Newt Gingrich Dumps on Nancy Pelsoi ( Panetta says the CIA told the truth ....)
“Consider that the CIA may have a copy of Obamas actual birth certificate.”
Good grief! You may be right.
I hope she adopts the "If I'm going down I'm taking you bastards with me" attitude.
I was surprised, too -- but maybe it does make sense if you consider Obama's psychology.
If the past few months have taught us anything at all about Obama's approach to the world, it's that he's big on ill-considered Grand Gestures.
I'm pretty sure that Obama's juvenile take on current events had pre-disposed him to want to go after the CIA, for all of the reasons that the loony-left hates the CIA.
His Grand Gesture in the case of the CIA would be some sort of very public and visible house-cleaning, reform, and show-trials.
So in choosing a DCI, Obama's first criterion was almost certainly that the DCI must be a reliable Party man. Panetta fits the bill admirably as a "Party man." To Obama the narcissist, "party man" would automatically translate into "Obama's man."
That does not mean that Panetta actually is a "reliable Obama man," however. In fact, I think Panetta most likely remains a loyal Clinton man ... whatever that actually means these days.
Supposing that to be the case, perhaps the more interesting place to watch is not the Pelosi charade, but rather Hillary Clinton's State Dept.
I can definitely see CIA and State having a commonality of interests against Obama's thrashings and bumblings.... One could actually imagine them working together against the POTUS.
Only question is, who is Nancy's Brute?
thanks....pinging for more viewers....
A liberal woman is the least protected female on the planet. Do you seriously think the effeminate "guys" in the party like her twisted highness? Seriously?
Why are they scapegoated her rather than say McBarney clown or rector Reid or the Dodd pirate? Don't get me wrong...I'm loving it, but liberal men are much more sexist than conservative ones IMHO.
Just as I also believe they are more racist and just try to compensate for it and "balance" it with their votes.
This is a purely delicious gut level mobbing. Human nature is a force to behold.
Newt is just trying to help.
What is more misogynist than a male homosexual???
Look at the faggot jihad against Miss California...
Yup, that’s workable too, BillandHillary wanted one of their own, Panetta, in there.
A juicy slot for a former political operative as well.
The real issue is the politicization of the war by the Demos with Queen Nancy leading the charge. Clearly, and this is but one example of it, the Demos used the war to demonize Bush and to gain power at the expense of our military and the best interests of the country. Haidatha (sp), Abu Grab (sp), WMD, torture, plus stuff I have long forgotten, were used to obtain the power the Demos wanted and would do anything to get. Nancy said as much the other day.
They are political opportunists of the worst sort, selling out their country and their souls to gain power. But the same thing happened with Vietnam, and look what happened, genocide, gulags, loss of US prestige/power, communism on the move and creation of the poorest country on earth in Vietnam.
I cannot decide who I hate more, the willing accomplices in the MSM or these self-serving Demo politicians.
schu
Flip a coin... works every time...
“Let me be clear”
Is Obama the one who’s really driving this in order to replace the speaker of the mouse-er house?
Nope. Democrats don't have to resign simply for being lying political hacks. The only way Democrats are ever forced to resign is if they are convicted of a felony and sentenced to prison.
I expect that Pelosi will still be representing the far left wing moonbats in her district for many years to come.
They are gonna cook Pelosi like a pig on a spit!
Obama will be next. One thing that they can do is manipulate media and I doubt that they will allow this administration to walk away free.
Obama will be ousted in 2012 by a landslide
Panetta's first cousin.
"Lessee, where'd I put dem cement overshoes."
Yep...I can take being called baby and being protected to death any day over being a hated target for destruction for no sane reason.
Plus, all the liberal men I know expect me to work myself to death for them while they party and have their "open" relationships (see the the department of heath and human services for disease prevention information).
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