Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:51:24 PM
Eric Holder at Justice didn't have the cuevos to go after Bush officials for this, but they see fit to go after CIA officials for interrogation abuse.
If it isn't bad enough that Obama campaigned on the notion that the CIA people weren't culpable because the policy was set from above.
Don't look to the present to see what kind of disaster it would be if they needed the intelligence, and they were depending on CIA people who were contemplating a joint legal defense arrangement. That is a ticket for answering questions with CYA answers.
Look to what happned to the CIA when the Watergate Congress, led by Frank Church, gutted the CIA in the mid 1970's. THAT CIA was just as surprised as we all were when Khomeni ousted the Shah in Iran and created a terrorist State in the Mid East in 1979.
We're still paying for that one. How long will it be before Leon Panetta realizes that he is running an agency that nobody in Washington wants any part of?