{"id":13983,"date":"2009-08-28T07:05:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2009-08-28T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:26:50","slug":"is-panetta-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13983","title":{"rendered":"Is Panetta out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first read of the rumor that CIA chief Leon Panetta offered his resignation on Wednesday at Ace of Spades<\/a>. The White House denies those reports, however. Fox News<\/a> wrote that ABC News reported a shouting match in the White House;<\/p>\n

ABCNews.com on Monday cited reports that Panetta, frustrated by several administration actions and discussions with regard to the CIA, got in a “profanity-laced screaming match” with a senior staff member last month and has also threatened to leave. Panetta reportedly was upset over potential plans to open an investigation into alleged CIA abuse of terror suspects. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kimberly Strassel at the Wall Street Journal<\/a> writes this morning that Panetta is the White House’s fall guy for their erratic policy on torture and the CIA agents who followed their orders;<\/p>\n

If the latest flap over CIA interrogations shows anything, it’s that Mr. Panetta has officially become the president’s designated fall guy.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, it explains Obama’s odd choice of Panetta for the office of CIA Director in the first place. Putting the highly-partisan Eric Holder in the Justice Department and a politician like Panetta at the CIA guaranteed Obama a shot at distracting us from his domestic agenda while the obamistas pursued the Bush Administration’s policies. Who knew that Panetta would take his job seriously?<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Ace reported<\/a> that the Wall Street Journal<\/a> quoted the CIA’s IG report that Pelosi did indeed know about interrogation techniques that the CIA employed. So I guess the Obama Administration will eventually have to rid themselves of Panetta since they don’t need him to pass their domestic agenda.<\/p>\n

In the Washington Post <\/a>this morning, Obama advisers tell the Post that it’s impossible for the President to move forward without looking backward;<\/p>\n

“I think he is determined to make sure we are on the right course going ahead, but you cannot just ignore the past, especially when Congress is doing its inquiries and reviews and we’re going to be facing these issues as a result of court cases, as a result of congressional actions,” [John O. Brennan, an assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism] said. “I think he is making sure that he makes the best decisions, and sometimes you cannot just wipe the slate clean. You have to deal with what the facts are, or you have to actually try to make sure you can ascertain the facts — as opposed to the hyperbole that is out there.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, like we able to deal with the facts from the 9-11 Commission in regards to the Clinton legacy as it related to the September 11th attacks. Remember how Jaime Gorelick was able to block an effective examination of those facts? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first read of the rumor that CIA chief Leon Panetta offered his resignation on Wednesday … Is Panetta out?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}