What has our CIA been up to recently? Mark Mazzetti and Carl Hulse of the New York Times fill us in:
The report by the agency’s inspector general also found that C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information, according to a summary of findings made public on Thursday. One official with knowledge of the report’s conclusions said the investigation also discovered that the officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by the committee staff.
Well, this doesn’t quite jibe with what CIA Director John O. Brennen said when the Senate committee first started complaining about the CIA’s dirty tricks:
Would this, you know, apparent conflict between what John said and, you know, the truth cause any upset at the White House? Perish the thought!
Crediting Mr. Brennan with playing an “instrumental role” in helping the United States government destroy Al Qaeda’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr. Earnest said, “He is somebody who has a very difficult job, who does that job extraordinarily well.”
If only Republicans wanted to impeach Obama for the right reasons, instead of all the wrong ones!
Afterwords
My “support” for impeachment is entirely rhetorical. My feeling is that the U.S. can afford a presidential impeachment once a century, and, even then, it’s a lot. Ronald Reagan knowingly committed an impeachable offense with his Iran/Contra scam, but got away with it because the public, while indignant with the sale of arms to Iranian terrorists, basically didn’t give a damn about what happened in Central America. Obama’s attack on Libya was similarly shameless, but virtually no one in Congress objected.
