[lbo-talk] Obama cover-up?

[Chuck Grimes]

``There was a good article a few weeks ago in the New Yorker about Leon 
Panetta over at CIA: the more the torture stuff got talked about on the 
"news" and thus on the street, the harder it was to get *anyone* 
appointed to any kind of position, because *everyone* who had anything 
to do with CIA during those years''  /jordan

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Thanks for answering. I'll try to look up the article. If you have a
link, please post it.

It sort of makes sense, since Panetta is completely on the outside of
the intelligence community. I have to wonder how Panetta and Gates get
along. Gates is a complete insider. 

I am not really interested in prison convictions. A few top level
firings might be in order. I want the information out on what was done
so that it is on the record. Cynics say, oh well, this goes on all the
time. Bullshit. It doesn't go on all the time.

What I want is the whole rightwing hate mantra of utter hypocrisy and
deadly arrogance excoriated. No more sliding around, getting out of
it, spinning everything. I want them nailed. Nailed for good by
history.

There is a simple narrative truth. These assholes in the Bush Cheney
regime killed hundreds of the thousands of innocent people. I want
that story told. 

Obama is going to own the crimes of the Bush regime, if he doesn't get
this stuff out soon. He is going to take the fall for what they did
and he is going to have a failed presidency on his hand to boot. 

CG