Reuters:
CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.
"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine's June 22 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."
Panetta's just stating the obvious here, but expect the right to go ballistic over this. Of course, we'll be expected to ignore the hypocrisy -- when Pelosi said the CIA lied to her, criticizing anyone from the CIA became the same as hating America. But now that the CIA director's said something that's not good for Republicans, that won't be true anymore.
