Posted on 08/26/2009 12:24:42 PM PDT by JerseyRepub
Our friends at Restate are hearing credible rumors that Leon Panetta is quitting over the proposed procecution of CIA operatives. If this is true, kudos to Leon...
agreed.
Sad but true Ike.
Nah, we’ll leave the job open and name an “Intellignence czar”....
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We need a wise Latina as the Director of Central Intelligence. She’ll clean up that cesspool of rogue spies, given the rich experiences of her life.
He oughtta write a scorching opus and send it to Rush Limbaugh to be aired.
It was Colby..and he knew and was involved in a lot of dirt. His close Friend said he was killed because he was about to reveal something.
One of the ‘Rats leaving a sinking ship.
I think Panetta resigning means that the Obama and the Democrats in Congress are going to war with the CIA and Panetta doesn’t want to get caught in the middle. Panetta knows that no one is going to win this fight.
Why on Earth would a CIA operative or employee want to do his job under these conditions? the choice seems to be either defend the country and face prosecution (and/or persecution), or be ineffectual and take the blame for the next attack.
I am beyond concerned. Some events in this country are beginning to remind me of the situation in Chile with Allende. No one wants a repeat of that trajectory!
"Moderate/Independent" voters will not be able to accept any BS story from the admin about why a "well-respected" Clintonite quit...over a National Security issue.
Only the FAR FAR left will be on the Obama train at that point. And, if the conjecture of some in the media is correct...and Hillary resigns at some point before 2010, that will seal their fate.
From a long, long time ago:
It's almost Halloween, and former CIA Director William Colby is still dead, having been thrown overboard from his boat, a while back. In the spirit of the High Holy Haloween Holidays, it is time to think back and reflect upon the anniversary of when Colby was thrown overboard for the first time, so to speak -- a prelude to the fatal, second time.
This was at 0800 hours on Sunday morning, November 2, 1975. Colby was told that he was going, in a reshuffling of the Ford administration that became known as the "Halloween Massacre".
Colby had told of too many CIA misdeeds, so he got the boot. Colby was told the news in person in the Oval Office. He had known it was coming, and related it to me in this way:
"To a large degree, the circus that the Church Committee and the media made out of the poisons and dart gun was the last straw for the White House. From the outset I had been, of course, aware that many in the administration did not approve of my cooperative approach to the investigations, and I felt myself increasingly isolated from the White House team as the year progressed. I had been blamed for not categorically denying Hersh's story at the very beginning; I had been chided for being too forthcoming to the Rockefeller Commission; I had been scolded for stonewalling at every Congressional hearing. But the impact of the toxin spectacular, and especially the fact that I had delivered the dart gun when Congress demanded it, blew the roof off."
(Sigh), it was probably that very same dart gun that blew Mr. Colby's own roof off, years later, on that fateful day.
President Ford's axing and shuffling was intended to please the Republican right wing. To replace Colby, Ford selected a "very good man" -- George Bush, to show that the "misery was all over."
The misery being all over for the CIA, that is, not for you and me. Directly opposite to Colby, who made such bitter enemies by coming clean, George became quite popular at the CIA. Presumably by steadfastly refusing to bath or to eat broccoli.
What ever happened to George, anyway? Is he still around? Oh shit, I hope he didn't take a tumble off his own boat. He was always a bit of a klutz. But no matter. He's been hanging around so long with the cast of the "Night of the Living Dead Presidents" horror flick, starring Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole, that his demise would be a rather anticlimatic, anyway.
But, I digress. Back to Colby. Years ago, a spook called David Atlee Phillips polled 12 senior ex-CIA officers as to which CIA director they would most like to share a pleasant island. Phillips kept his own vote back. But when it came to sharing a terrible desert island, Phillips said something rather spooky and prophetic:
"What if a volume of 'How to Build a Boat for One Passenger' should float ashore my desert island? With that in mind, I selected Colby. He would get us off the island. Certainly he would never entertain the notion of building a boat for one, or, if he did reach that point, he would later stand in the surf and wave good-bye -- a faint smile on his thin lips after pushing me out to sea."
(Sigh), again.
I'm sure the CIA Slime Monster that pushed Colby out to sea had a very faint, special smile, also. With the image of that spooky smile imprinted firmly in mind, I bid you all to abide by the Golden Ghoul, and to have a Safe and Happy Haloloween. And don't rock the boat. You might have a heart attack and fall over, courtesy of the dart gun, or something.
From a long, long time ago:
It's almost Halloween, and former CIA Director William Colby is still dead, having been thrown overboard from his boat, a while back. In the spirit of the High Holy Haloween Holidays, it is time to think back and reflect upon the anniversary of when Colby was thrown overboard for the first time, so to speak -- a prelude to the fatal, second time.
This was at 0800 hours on Sunday morning, November 2, 1975. Colby was told that he was going, in a reshuffling of the Ford administration that became known as the "Halloween Massacre".
Colby had told of too many CIA misdeeds, so he got the boot. Colby was told the news in person in the Oval Office. He had known it was coming, and related it to me in this way:
"To a large degree, the circus that the Church Committee and the media made out of the poisons and dart gun was the last straw for the White House. From the outset I had been, of course, aware that many in the administration did not approve of my cooperative approach to the investigations, and I felt myself increasingly isolated from the White House team as the year progressed. I had been blamed for not categorically denying Hersh's story at the very beginning; I had been chided for being too forthcoming to the Rockefeller Commission; I had been scolded for stonewalling at every Congressional hearing. But the impact of the toxin spectacular, and especially the fact that I had delivered the dart gun when Congress demanded it, blew the roof off."
(Sigh), it was probably that very same dart gun that blew Mr. Colby's own roof off, years later, on that fateful day.
President Ford's axing and shuffling was intended to please the Republican right wing. To replace Colby, Ford selected a "very good man" -- George Bush, to show that the "misery was all over."
The misery being all over for the CIA, that is, not for you and me. Directly opposite to Colby, who made such bitter enemies by coming clean, George became quite popular at the CIA. Presumably by steadfastly refusing to bath or to eat broccoli.
What ever happened to George, anyway? Is he still around? Oh shit, I hope he didn't take a tumble off his own boat. He was always a bit of a klutz. But no matter. He's been hanging around so long with the cast of the "Night of the Living Dead Presidents" horror flick, starring Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole, that his demise would be a rather anticlimatic, anyway.
But, I digress. Back to Colby. Years ago, a spook called David Atlee Phillips polled 12 senior ex-CIA officers as to which CIA director they would most like to share a pleasant island. Phillips kept his own vote back. But when it came to sharing a terrible desert island, Phillips said something rather spooky and prophetic:
"What if a volume of 'How to Build a Boat for One Passenger' should float ashore my desert island? With that in mind, I selected Colby. He would get us off the island. Certainly he would never entertain the notion of building a boat for one, or, if he did reach that point, he would later stand in the surf and wave good-bye -- a faint smile on his thin lips after pushing me out to sea."
(Sigh), again.
I'm sure the CIA Slime Monster that pushed Colby out to sea had a very faint, special smile, also. With the image of that spooky smile imprinted firmly in mind, I bid you all to abide by the Golden Ghoul, and to have a Safe and Happy Haloloween. And don't rock the boat. You might have a heart attack and fall over, courtesy of the dart gun, or something.
YEP! Bet OBOZO is sweating White Ink over that one right now! Probably be hard to tell the difference between his complexion and Michael Jackson’s about now:-) You have to know that the CIA knows every stinking detail of that sordid story and the missing Birth Certificates, School Records, Passports and ad Infinitum........
Yes that is true. I have never had much of an opinion on Panetta. I always thought of him as a seat warmer.
But if this is true..then I will have to give him Props.
Leon Panetta is a lib Dem but I think there is still something there where he might put the country first. I hope he does resign - anyone involved with Hussein is a traitor.
We can only hope!!
another one rides (under) the bus.
la dee da dee daa.
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A question no one is asking. More than just Panetta, if the big O continues to sink in the polls, being the political animal she is, what course will Hillary take to preserve her aspirations to make her mark in history?
Feigned family or medical reasons to justify a resignation seem the only palatable ways open.
I’ve not been to China, however, I know the dark side within of me.
Were I in the CIA, I would be on the side of those that would want to resolve the matter... by whatever means necessary.
I don’t think he wants to be around when the teleprompter blows up.
Not that the CIA would do something like that....
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