Dicked Around

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 disclosure about Mr. Cheney’s role in the unidentified C.I.A. program comes a day after an inspector general’s report underscored the central role of the former vice president’s office in restricting to a small circle of officials knowledge of the National Security Agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort.
New York Times report HERE

John McCain is Still Alive!

Noting that the media spotlight has been shining on his 'big mistake', John McCain has resurfaced.
Not to be out done, he's taken the same tact as his presidential campaign running mate has...e.g. finger pointing and bottom feeding by calling on CIA director Leon Panetta to retract his statements about Dick Cheney wherein Panetta apparently remarked that the former VP "almost wishes" for another terror attack on U.S. soil simply to prove his point that President Barack Obama is pursuing a dangerous national security agenda.
more HERE

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