The Speaker of the House essentially called the Central Intelligence Agency liars and they withheld information about the “torture” of terror suspects from her. Vice President Cheney quickly came to the defense of the CIA.
This is how he was thanked…
I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security 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.
— CIA director Leon Panetta, The New Yorker magazine’s June 22 issue
If it weren’t for the men and women in the field, I could see leaving Panetta hanging the next time his agency is falsely attacked by his own party.
I also get to wondering why the CIA & FBI can’t solve this problem..
were they payed off?