Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Democrats' Assault On the CIA

WASHINGTON POST, 5/20/2009 by Michael Gerson - In a little over 100 days, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have delivered a series of blows to the pride and morale of the Central Intelligence Agency. ∴ It began with the release of the Justice Department memos -- a move opposed by CIA Director Leon Panetta along with four previous directors. Then, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. did not rule out Justice Department cooperation with foreign lawsuits against American intelligence operatives. Then, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to her in 2002 about waterboarding, which she admitted learning about five months later anyway but did nothing to oppose because her real job was to "change the leadership in Congress and in the White House." Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John said, "Stealing from the political cartoon in the GT today, what planet
do the Democrats live on?

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