15 May
Posted by MacRanger as Uncategorized
A vote of “No Confidence” by the ONE.
“CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.
Panetta said that “ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.”
Pelosi (D-Calif.) infuriated Republicans this week when she said in a news conference that she was “misled” by CIA officials during a briefing in 2002 about whether the U.S. was waterboarding alleged terrorist detainees.
Panetta, President Obama’s pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton’s former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed,’” according to CIA records.
“We are an agency of high integrity, professionalism and dedication,” Panetta said in the memo. “Our task is to tell it like it is — even if that’s not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it.”
In the pep talk-style memo titled “Turning Down the Volume,” Panetta encourages CIA employees to return to their normal business and not to be distracted by the shout-fest Pelosi’s remarks created.
“My advice — indeed, my direction — to you is straightforward: Ignore the noise and stay focused on your mission,” Panetta wrote. “We have too much work to do to be distracted from our job of protecting this country.”
Yeah, she’s done. No doubt Panetta was told what to say and how to say it. He could have said, “Yeah, those guys back then lied, but we’re new and improve and telling the truth from now on!”
But he didn’t. The only thing now is to set the clock ticking until Pelosi is forced to step down.
Tick, Tick…
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One Response
retire05
May 15th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
1Mac, I have to disagree with you. Pelosi is not about to step down. Democrats (William Jefferson, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, et al) don’t step down until they are voted out of office.
Personally, I view Pelosi as the gift that keeps on giving. And now, in her Botoxed fog, she has taken on the one federal agency with the power to destroy her. Talk about stupid. Pelosi isn’t using a shovel to dig her hole deeper, she’s using a backhoe.
But here is one thing we do know; there is no love lost between Steny Hoyer and Pelosi. And if Hoyer ever decides that Pelosi is giving the Democrats a hickey they can’t cover up, he will try to undermine her position as Speaker.
It will be a sight to behold; Democrats eating their own.
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