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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 07:48 AM
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Larry Wilkerson kicking ass on CNN citing how the CIA leadership has made a practice of lying--
Edited on Wed May-20-09 08:20 AM by flpoljunkie
particularly citing how they lied to Colin Powell when he was preparing to appear before the United Nations in the run up to the Iraq war. Wilkerson is, understandably, still pissed about how his boss was lied to by the CIA.

The CNN interviewer, Kiran Chetry, brought him on to talk about Nancy Pelosi, of course. Look for the video of the interview.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 08:31 AM
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1. And she tried to steer it back to NP...
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MO_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:08 AM
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2. That was a thrill
and Kiran looked as if she DID NOT like what she was hearing. I imagined that she was thinking "Oooh, nooo, I'm in big trouble now!"

:applause:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:31 AM
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7. I thought he was on with Soledad (So-So-Bad) O'Brien? Kiran Chetry has similar features.
Edited on Wed May-20-09 09:35 AM by ShortnFiery
Those drop dead gorgeous news models are easy to confuse due to their seemingly plastic perfection. ;)
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 10:34 AM
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13. Kiran Chetry is the anorexic one.
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MO_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 12:42 PM
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15. The one I saw was Kiran Chetry
I didn't see Soledad O'Brien. If she also did a report, I didn't see it.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 12:45 PM
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16. She did not. It was Kiran Chentry who interviewed Larry Wilkerson this morning.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:20 AM
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3. A LOT of good folks work for CIA. And it was the CIA's lead counsel that advised against torture
saying it would not work, among other things.

Like a lot of people and agencies the CIA became a presidential enabler. The fault lies with the Bush Administration.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:25 AM
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4. Wilkerson himself made a point of saying there were many good people who worked for the CIA.
His criticism was of the leadership of the CIA.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:27 AM
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5. Yes. More people need to understand that. There's a reason GWB blamed the 'intelligence failure'
on CIA. They're good at what they do and told him not to invade. Hence, Cheney's visits there to lean on them to get what he wanted.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:38 AM
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8. Cheney seemingly visited the CIA DAILY. Anyone else remember the media showing Cheney skedaddle
Edited on Wed May-20-09 09:39 AM by ShortnFiery
over there CONSTANTLY during the run-up to the Iraqi invasion? :evilgrin:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 12:50 PM
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17. Oy yes..
That he did..and you know it wasn't so they'd tell the truth. Oh, to be a spider on that wall to hear why it was so necessary to lie.
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 10:40 AM
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14. FBI told them not to. CIA told them not to. Yet they did it anyway.
I don't blame the agencies at all.

I think they need to look harder in to if the torture was really done to try and create an Iraq link.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:29 AM
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6. He was awesome! She was stunned and barely able to cut him off when
Edited on Wed May-20-09 09:34 AM by ShortnFiery
her corporate masters requested her on two occasions during this interview, i.e., probably were screaming in her ear-piece. :evilgrin:

:(
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:49 AM
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9. And, as this all goes on, The Ones Responsible are not even mentioned. n/t
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 09:51 AM
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10. CNN Larry Wilkerson must see video NOW online! It's titled CIA vs. Pelosi.
Edited on Wed May-20-09 10:09 AM by flpoljunkie
http://www.cnn.com/video/
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 10:06 AM
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11. Wilkerson also slams the spineless leadership and lack of Congressional oversight since 2000
The man was on fire. He called the Nancy Pelosi flap a 'tempest in a teapot.' He said he knows the 'press loves it' when there is 'blood on the street,' but that the 'central issue here is torture and harsh interrogations which are against both domestic and international law.'
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 10:21 AM
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12. Wilkerson said Pelosi does not have the power to get incriminating evidence out of the CIA.
Edited on Wed May-20-09 10:34 AM by flpoljunkie
He said even Bobby Kennedy, who essentially ran CIA clandestine operations out of the AG office for his brother, could not do that.

Not surpringingly, Robert Shrum writes in The Week today in The Case for Nancy Pelosi, "The CIA rebuffed Pelosi’s request to release her own notes of her briefing, apparently on grounds of national security."

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/96671/The_case_for_Nancy_Pelosi
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