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George’s Bottom Line
Reporting and analysis from ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and “This Week” Host George Stephanopoulos
August 30, 2009
In our interview this morning, John Kerry hit back at Dick Cheney’s charge on Fox News that the Attorney General’s decision to investigate possible CIA abuses is an “outrageous political act.”
“Dick Cheney has shown through the years, frankly, a disrespect for the constitution for sharing of information to Congress and a [dis]respect for the law and I’m not surprised that he’s upset about this,” Kerry told me this morning on “This Week.”
Senator Orrin Hatch defended the former Veep’s position, saying that the Obama Administration’s probe into CIA interrogation techniques of terror detainees would weaken efforts for protecting national security.
“We don’t want to cripple our ability in very crucial times to get the information we gotta have to save our country and to protect our people,” Hatch told me during our interview this morning on ‘This Week.’
Kerry conceded that the issue has caused tension within the administration itself. …
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/08/kerry-slams-cheney-on-this-week.html
When the neocons come in for criticism of their usually train-wreck performance, they quickly wrap themselves in a symbolic reference to America.
They wrapped themselves in the American flag when their Iraq war performance proved they “knew not what they were doing”. But, any criticism of the neocon “performance” was treated as criticism of AMERICA and criticism of the armed forces of America. It was rare to never that they “entertained” publicly the idea that they needed the help that the senior Bush offered.
And now the focus changes to America’s delving into un-American activities in the CIA world. The CIA is a part of America – just as the Congress is a part of America – just as the Executive branch is a part of America and just as the Judicial Branch is a part of America.
America is not – and hopefully never will be defined by NEOCONS.
It should, by now, be obvious that the CIA has been politicized. Perhaps those 25 Democrats who voted to change the CIA leadership from civilian to military may have helped the neocons strengthen their hold on the CIA. Perhaps now, there is no American citizen, working for the CIA, who would attempt to expose “illegal spying on American citizens”.
The neocons, who may have contributed bad behavior to the CIA, are now squealing like “stuck pigs”. It is likely that they squeal more for themselves or their party than for the CIA itself.
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