…and, oh yeah, he’s still a Republican.
Colin Powell was on Face The Nation today. Bob Schieffer lead the interview by asking him first about a recent volley of remarks that one might say started with Powell critizing conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh during Q&A at a cybersecurity conference, as reported by Chris Strohm of Congress Daily. [...]
Recently the Central Intelligence Agency made news with a high profile announcement about “black sites” and interrogation methods.
CIA, as always, used very careful language:
CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites and has proposed a plan to decommission the remaining sites…
This seems to make it clear that there remain such sites, that the CIA [...]
We are not surprised, but we are unimpressed by Obama’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency. During his confirmation hearing Thursday, Leon Panetta appeared to make at least a couple inaccurate statements during his Thursday appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
When asked by Hatch, Panetta seemed to confirm an assertion by Senator Hatch (to [...]