CIA Director Leon Panetta getting sacked by his own team.
In the game of political football that is today national security, spare a thought for CIA Director Leon Panetta. Quarterbacking is hard enough without getting sacked by your own team.
President Barack Obama fought hard for the former California congressman during his uncertain February confirmation fight. That's about the last thing the president has done for his spy chief. Quite the opposite: If the latest flap over CIA interrogations shows anything, it's that Mr. Panetta has officially become the president's designated fall guy.
The title has been months in the making. Mr. Obama is contending with an angry left that's riled by his decisions to retain some Bush-era counterterrorism policies. He's facing Congressional liberals still baying for Bush blood. He's hired Attorney General Eric Holder, who is giving the term "ideological purity" new meaning. Mr. Obama's way to appease these bodies? Hang the CIA and Mr. Panetta out to dry.
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Well after an extended break of watching 44 slip lower and lower in the polls...Hmmm, who would have predicted, its time to get back to it. No need to talk about imploding 44care just yet:
Yes it sucks to be Leon Panetta but WTF did he think was going to happen after the well had been posioned by Democrats over the past 5 years, that they were going to treat the CIA with kid-gloved just because an ex-Clintonite was there? Hey LP, bend over and take it like a man from your friends in the WH and congress.
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