How desperate are the GOP & Co?

[Cees Binkhorst]

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CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked
Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:07pm EDT
WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost
as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack
on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack
Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security
issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker
magazine's June 22 issue.

"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it,
it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again,
in order to make his point."

Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial
interrogation methods such as waterboarding, has become as a leading
Republican critic of Obama's ban on harsh interrogations and his plan to
shut the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In a blistering May 21 speech, Cheney said Obama's reversal of Bush-era
policies were "unwise in the extreme" that would make the American people
less safe.

Panetta called Cheney's actions "dangerous politics."

He told The New Yorker he had favored the creation of an independent truth
commission to look into the detainee polices of former President George W.
Bush. But the idea died in April when Obama decided such a panel could be
seen as politically vindictive. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by
Alan Elsner)

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