Why do the Republicans hate the CIA?
Last week, the Washington Post published a story about a super-secret CIA prison system.
Soon after that, Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist called for an investigation into the leak.
Next thing you know, it turns out the leak probably came from some place just a little too close for comfort:
Trent Lott stunned reporters by declaring that this subject was actualy discussed at a Senate Republican luncheon, Republican senators only, last Tuesday the day before the story ran in the Washington Post.So let me see if I have this right: a CIA leak comes out of a roomful of Republican Senators .... and "Dick" Cheney.Lott noted that Vice President Cheney was also in the room for that discussion and Lott said point blank "a lot of it came out of that room last Tuesday, pointing to the room where the lunch was held in the Capitol." He added of Senators "we can't keep our mouths shut." He added about the Vice President, "He was up here last week and talked up here in that room right there in a roomful of nothing but senators and every word that was said in there went right to the newspaper."
[Lott] said he believes when all is said and done it may wind up as an ethics investigation of a Republican senator, maybe a Republican staffer as well.
Senator Frist's office not commenting on this development. The Washington Post not commenting either.
I swear to God, you couldn't make up a more delicious story.
P.S. I think Cheney is just taunting us now.
WTF is up with "straight shooter" McCain? He's in a public war w/Cheney and his pro-torture stance, yet denies knowing anything about the Secret gulag until the Post article.
Was he not invited to the luncheon?
Now the Justice Dept. is on it!
Fitzmas, the gift that keeps on giving.
I think that this public policy war is between the neocons (which actually stands for "neocolonialists") represented by Cheney (and his crew), and the Powell/Scowcroft realists. McCain, having actually experienced the world, war and captivity, naturally aligned with the realists, including the CIA.
Since the beginning of the "Republican revolution", the war has been between the ideologues (whether racist, libertarian, evangelical, neocolonialist or anti-government conservative) and everyone else who cares, is knowledgable and can still reason (non-partisans). The conflict’s most ironic metaphor perhaps being it’s personification in Bush the father (the realist) and son (pandering to or being held sway by the neocons, the anti-government conservatives and evangelicals). Now that the coalition is revealed for what it is – fundamentally conflicted (not to mention irrational and dishonest) – more people are being forced to choose sides within it (and more people are choosing to fight against it).