CIA Head Suggest Dick Cheney Hoping For A Terrorist Attack
Posted by Media Outrage on June 16, 2009
CIA Director Leon Panetta has come out and said that Dick Cheney might be hoping for a terrorist attack on America. Peep game
Dick Cheney’s recent criticism of the Obama administration’s national security policies suggests the former vice president is almost “wishing” the United States gets hit with another terrorist attack, according to CIA Director Leon Panetta.
During an interview in the current issue of the New Yorker, Panetta says Cheney’s wide range of recent criticisms of Obama — including the decision to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba — show the ex-vice president “smells some blood in the water on the national security issue.”
“It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics,” said Panetta. “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.”
Asked about Panetta’s comments during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden said he would refrain from questioning his predecessor’s motives.
“I think Dick Cheney’s judgment about how to secure America is faulty,” Biden said. “I think our judgment is correct. I don’t question his motive.”
But Panetta, the former White House chief of staff under President Clinton, also said in the New Yorker interview it was “dangerous politics” for Cheney to repeatedly insist President Obama has made the country less safe.
Among Cheney’s criticism is Obama’s decision to cease the CIA’s use of enhance interrogation techniques to extract information from terrorist suspects — a practice the former vice president says yielded information that prevented massive terrorist attacks, though he says security reasons prevent him from revealing specifically to which incidents he is referring.
Panetta said he supports the president’s decision and, like Obama, does not think CIA agents who engaged in the techniques under President Bush should be prosecuted.
“I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt,” he said. “If they do the job that they’re paid to do, I can’t ask for a hell of a lot more.”
UPDATE: In a statement provided to CNN, Cheney said, “I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted.”
“The important thing is whether or not the Obama Administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the last 8 years.”
Mediaoutrage- Cheney fall back. Just enjoy your millions that you’re still reaping from this ridiculous war you and Bush started. What a scum bag.
Lio said
Hoping ? this mofo is planning one…
Lee said
Oh, because the Bush administration has done such an amazing job! Give me a break. What an old-ass idiot! Obama hasn’t even been in office for 6-months! I don’t know why people expect miracles to happen overnight.
Yeah I Said It said
Lmao @ Lios…. Is it not obvious Cheney is in a quit storm over President Obama policy to change his adminstrations treatment of Gitmo so called Terrorist? What this walking dead man is doing is trying to shore up enough support for former policies to keep them in place.
Translation: How dare you get your black ass in that office and fu*k with anything we did.
Cheney now is the time to spend time in the woods, take your battery pack for your pacemaker and wheelchair, and go. We don’t care what you do, just get yourself somewhere and shut up…. You are past tense.
Truly23 said
Lio he in the works of contacting Bin Laden as we type about his heart attack having ass…
He should be hoping he’s able to survive another one…
MissTX85 said
Yeah we gone find out his old ass is the one behind it. Bastard!
Aluceo said
WHY THE CHENEYS WON’T LEAVE THE SCENE: A QUESTION OF JOURNALISTIC DEONTOLOGY!
The recent appearances of the Cheneys over the media as a credible political opponent on par to the Obama administration\’s policies and stances raises an issue of journalistic deontology! This is definitely of artificial making.
On the one hand, we\’ve got a legitimately elected President of the United States who has undergone the rigorous electoral process having to make his case to the American people and coming out successful in eliciting the policies he intends to carry out during his mandate within the confines of the American political institutional structure and process.
On the other hand, we\’ve got political personae (the Cheneys) who are effectively being presented by the media as a legitimate opponent on par to the Obama administration whereas they do not bear any electoral mandate whatsoever for the political views they profer and with no consequent responsiblity, stake and risk that will arise from any such mandate while the President is tied to them.
For comments/expressions of opinion on the President\’s policies, their views have been given such a broad artificial reception by the media that runs very contrary to the expression of opinion as we\’ve come to know it. These views are rather given almost the same weight and placed on par as the political stances of a legitimately elected president with a legitimate mandate for the policies he is undertaking while the Cheney\’s hold no such legitimate mandate and with no accompanying political accountability whatsoever.
The issue here is that such attitude by the media is contrary to what we\’ve come to expect from normal implicit democratic rules. If the Cheneys had any pretense for policies they wished to be implemented after the Bush Administration, the solution would have simply been for Dick or Liz to run for president. Since they didn\’t, it is artificial for the media to strive to present them as a counterweight on par to the Obama administration\’s policies well beyong what will be expected for the opinion of a simple citizen that the Cheneys are now notwithstanding their previous political roles.
And by the way, by extension is it acceptable that any citizen, no matter what self-righteous pretense they might have, to be artificially given a similar counterweight role on par with the President on any policy issues of the Obama administration while not holding any legitimate political mandate for which they will be politically accountable for their stances? It can be understandable, that the Cheneys can be of direct concern when it comes to matters of direct relation to political issues having to do with Cheney\’s role in the Bush administration. But to raise their views on the policies and stances the administration should take on par with the President undermines appropriate journalistic deontology because as we should all know by now \”elections do matter\”.
What strikes the mind here is that the Cheneys have perfectly understood this \”naïvété\” of the media and are using this \”media confusion about fairness\” to artificially strive to extirpate Mr. Dick Cheney from accusations of introducing torture policies during the Bush Administration among other political accusations. Their strategy is very simple. Legally, Cheney can\’t make it (they know that secretly). In all courts of law, so-called EITs are definitely torture practices. Besides, the facts as we know them are overwhelmingly against him and the Bush Administration, and Dick Cheney\’s contradictions are extensive.
The real strategy of the Cheney\’s here is totally otherly: turn it \”political\”. First, saying torture works and was for the good of the country should elicit the fervour of many Americans. Afterall, all what is needed is that a substantial number of Americans polled buy to this argument, and then the issue’s legal underpinning may be undermined.
Secondly, posing artificially as the right wing counterweight to the Obama\’s administration policies elicits the impression and fervour in some quarters particularly to the right that he is making the President moderate and thus he is political useful. A look at this second political trick shows how the media has effectively been manipulated: knowing fairly well that in his administrative role the President will have to take practical and pragmatic postures with respect to the release of photos of abused detainees as well as on other policies, all what Dick simply have to do is to posit that he is against releasing the pictures and pretend to take critical policy issues postures on the right, making him seemingly a moderating influence on the President.
Thirdly, the Cheneys simply have to claim that Obama is following the Bush Administration’s policies he criticized pointing to his strategies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo. In this case too, the media is manipulated as they ignore the fact that the Obama administration does not have the luxury of starting from scratch as Bush had on all these issues but rather adopts a “course correction strategy” of the situations to bring them as close as possible to what he advocates.
The fact is that, the underlying strategy of Dick and her daughter is to make this three steps political trick extirpate Dick from the accusations levied against the former administration. The sad thing is that the media is \”naïvely\” falling for these political tricks!