Ox Gored
“Democrats: The CIA is out to get us.” Politico:
Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself.
“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was briefed on interrogation techniques five times between 2006 and 2007.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said he finds it “interesting” that a document detailing congressional briefings was released just as “some of the groups that have been responsible for these interrogation techniques were taking the most criticism.”
That’s a good one. Remember how much they liked the CIA when it was out to get George Bush and Dick Cheney?
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:10 am on Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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May 13th, 2009 at 11:40 am
“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Well, he would know about things like embarrassment and shifting responsibility, wouldn’t he?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Bureaucracy 101: A bureaucratic organization’s number one priority is always its own survival. Priority #2: More money and power.