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To: i-node who wrote (508221)	8/26/2009 9:33:29 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1578203

Panetta has a very dirty house to clean.....he may not be up to the job because of his integrity.

To: i-node who wrote (508221)	8/27/2009 1:50:56 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578203

You mean this Brian Ross: BRIAN ROSS: ...It was clear today that the partisan battle lines have been drawn over the CIA, led on one side by the former Vice President, who has long been the chief defender of the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques. DICK CHENEY, FILE FOOTAGE: They were legal, essential, justified, successful and the right thing to do. ROSS: It was at Cheney's request that the CIA made public yesterday two top secret reports that said the detainee interrogations were pivotal. “Detainees have given us a wealth of useful information on al Qaeda,” the report says, “thwarting a number of al Qaeda operations,” including a proposed 9/11 style attack on Los Angeles, on London's Heathrow airport and the capture of a leading southeast Asia al Qaeda leader who reportedly had 70 operatives ready to carry out terrorist attacks in the West. Nowhere in the reports, however, does the CIA ever draw a direct connection between the valuable information and the specific use of harsh tactics. So, Charlie, there's just enough for both sides to argue about, while CIA officers in the field are left to figure out just what is expected of them."

To: i-node who wrote (508221)	8/27/2009 1:57:37 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578203

"ABC News correspondent Brian Ross led his report just after the beginning of the 7 am Eastern hour by underlining how it’s apparently been a “very ugly week as the rhetoric about the President and the threats against him have deeply worried the people who track this country’s hate groups.” After summarizing how police in Los Angeles arrested a man suffering from “mental problems” for making threats against the White House, and how the case is apparently part of a “disturbing pattern,” Ross played his first clip from Potok, who emphasized, “I don’t think that these are simply people who are mentally ill or...you know, kind of off their rockers. I think that...in a very real sense, they represent a genuine reaction- a genuine backlash against Obama.” Ross then pinned some of the blame on talk radio and the Internet, specifying Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck as examples: ROSS: The contentious debate over health care has helped to bring the vitriol into the open. Rush Limbaugh compared a logo for the White House health care plan to a Nazi symbol. RUSH LIMBAUGH: That the Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo. ROSS: And the Internet is full of references to the president as Hitler, or as a socialist, or as a racist. GLENN BECK: This guy is, I believe, a racist.