Cheney Brings Back the 1970s
12 July 2009 10:49 am by Taylor Marsh
Checking in from Dallas…
It’s déjà vu all over again.
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.
Pres. Obama may want to keep looking forward, but what’s been recently revealed should prompt Attorney General Holder to put his head down and do his job.
Nothing is more serious than the executive branch ordering the premier intelligence agency of the United States to withhold information from Congress.
Also in this mix is CIA Director Leon Panetta, who continues to insist that it’s not the Agency’s policy to keep information from Congress.
Pres. Obama needs to stay out of this and let Holder do what he was appointed to do, uphold the laws of this country. This isn’t about protecting those in the Presidents’ Club. We’ve been through this before, back during the bad old days, something Dick Cheney knows all about and evidently thinks is worth repeating again.
We’ll have to see whether Cheney’s lawyer will allow him to make a statement, or if daddy will send his little girl Liz out to play defense yet again.
