Comments on: Leon Panetta, Frigging Moron

By: Richard Baker

Richard Baker — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:20:39 +0000

Really shocking news and I appreciate Leon Panetta’s courage and efforts and hope concerning government agency would soon come with a right explanation for all this.

By: d2i

d2i — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:27:40 +0000

I recall your endorsement of Panetta and was a bit startled by it, and honestly couldn’t understand why, at that time, you were so defensive when others raised serious concerns about his experience.

It’s too bad that his stellar resume will be tarnished due to his demonstrated ineptness at CIA. He needs to go before he does more damage to our country’s security and greater damage to his reputation.

The thing that bothers me is the fact that he had the hubris to accept the appointment when his resume and experience is obviously quite thin in this area. And now that he’s been found out, he lacks the humility to take responsibility publicly so as to quell the tinder box growing at CIA.

By: stodgie

stodgie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:12:39 +0000

cg, i want to commend you on nearly putting me to sleep with your incessant cut and paste dog and pony show. boring!

By: stodgie

stodgie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:10:49 +0000

pot, panetta is a tool of the far left, which i am guessing of which you are a card carrying member. deal with it ya’l have screwed the pooch and on your way out the door never to return.

By: stodgie

stodgie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:08:50 +0000

joe, do you work at it or does being obtuse just come naturally. don’t mind answering, i already know.

By: stodgie

stodgie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:06:30 +0000

jenny why the resume? your point is what? he acted like a fool. deal with it.

By: PotVsKtl

PotVsKtl — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:11:36 +0000

More crying from Larry due to the fact that Panetta chooses to follow the rule of law. What a travesty!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:49:46 +0000

Classic! The CIA and other guilty parties proclaim they didn’t do anything AND case closed!

Is this still America? I guess by this logic, we should have let the Nazi’s try themselves at Nuremberg.

CIA always gets to exonerate itself. And the proof is always classified.

This is pure conjecture Larry. You are a loyal company man, but a horrible lawyer.

By: Barry 0351

Barry 0351 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:06:25 +0000

Hunters do not normally alert their game/prey/victims with loud proclamations of Here Deer, deer, deer! or we have a “secret assassination program here for you Haji terrorist!” if they did we all would be up to our asses in Deer and terrorist.
sometimes, sometimes it pays to keep a secret secret no matter who is president.

By: politicsisdirty

politicsisdirty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:02:04 +0000

ON THE JOB TRAINEES …. they all are?

By: tzada

tzada — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:56:30 +0000

This just up on todays Drudge Report

Detainees Shown CIA Officers’ Photos
Justice Dept. Looking Into Whether Attorneys Broke Law at Guantanamo

The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Investigators are looking into allegations that laws protecting classified information were breached when three lawyers showed their clients the photographs, the sources said. The lawyers were apparently attempting to identify CIA officers and contractors involved in the agency’s interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects in facilities outside the United States, where the agency employed harsh techniques.

If detainees at the U.S. military prison in Cuba are tried, either in federal court or by a military commission, defense lawyers are expected to attempt to call CIA personnel to testify.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004295_pf.html

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:55:02 +0000

Larry:
You think Panetta is bad? How about the attorneys who showed PHOTOS of CIA agents to terrorists?

I don’t know what your friends inside the CIA think, but I’m guessing they are pretty nervous about this administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082004295.html

By: tek

tek — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:40:42 +0000

I didn’t like the Bush administration, but if the Democrats wanted to go after those people they should have done it two years ago, once they gained the majority. Instead, they let a lot of bad stuff continue so voters will be sure to elect a Democrat in ’08, then they come back and start investigating people no longer in power. It’s some of the worst political bungling I’ve ever seen.

Today’s Yahoo! headlines: Americans Losing Faith in Obama. I’m going to go out and celebrate.

By: tzada

tzada — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:31:53 +0000

My take on this is this. Maybe the intent was there, to achieve exactly what was achieved, more scrutiny. In other words Panetta was the stodge and the fall guy and it was the plan.

By: spider

spider — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:08:23 +0000

The best way to screw something up is to give the job to someone without credentials for the job. With the exception of Obama, of course, who had no credentials at all. Instead of escaping the frying pan, America is now in the fire. I keep thinking of the parable of The blind leading the blind.