Two good observations: Prevarigate and Latest on Prevarigate*
By Loren Heal - Posted on May 15th, 2009
Tagged: Op-Ed
theminorityreportblog.com
And so we have before us the Pelosi waterboarding kerfuffle (which I am dubbing “Prevari-gate” because “Watergate” was already taken).
Who wins if Nancy Pelosi is weakened politically?
Barack Obama. Pelosi will give him whatever he wants, without so much as a whimper.
Note that CIA Director Leon Panetta has come down on the side of the Bush CIA on this one. He wouldn’t do that without White House approval. They want Pelosi out of there.
So who wins if Pelosi resigns?
Barack Obama. Obama will have his pick for Speaker, which would probably be long-time Rahm Emanuel ally House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
House Republicans, agitating against Pelosi because they don’t like her very much, are going to give Obama just the Speaker he wants. That’s good and bad: the new Speaker will be a tough foe for Congressional Republicans, but at least he will be an adult.
In the long run, it will all work out, because Obama-Hoyer-Reid triumvirate will ultimately bring about electoral defeat for the Democrats. But not before they screw the country up in some very bad ways.
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Latest on Prevarigate*.
Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)
Friday, May 15th at 8:50PM EDT
redstate.com
It’s like a demented tennis match:
CIA director says Pelosi received the truth
CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.
[snip]
Panetta, President Obama’s pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton’s former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed,’” according to CIA records.
“We are an agency of high integrity, professionalism and dedication,” Panetta said in the memo. “Our task is to tell it like it is — even if that’s not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it.”
(Via Riehl World View, via AoSHQ)
…and that last statement translates to, as near as I can tell, “Go ahead and hit her again.” Add that to the apparent dismissive attitude of Panetta towards Speaker Pelosi’s allegations (I think that he referred to it as ‘noise’), and you get the feeling that the CIA is prepared to be the brick wall that the Speaker is pounding her head against for as long as the Speaker feels like pounding. That suggests that there’s a lot of paperwork still out there that can accidentally-on purpose show up when the time is right.
While this is funny to watch on a personally partisan level, after it’s all done we really should overhaul our information disclosure / whistle-blower procedures. Karmic payback is all very well, but eventually this mindset is going to adversely affect people who I’ll mind seeing put through the wringer.
Moe Lane
*That’s what The Minority Report is calling it. Personally, I find cramming everything into a “X-gate” designation has long since jumped the shark, but custom is king of all.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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