CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack
Leon Panetta responds to the former vice president's constant sniping in the latest New Yorker: "I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point I think that’s dangerous politics".
Leon Panetta responds to the former vice president’s constant sniping in the latest New Yorker: “I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue. … It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”
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