Cheney 'Wishing US Would be Attacked Again'

CIA director Leon Panetta has blasted former vice president Dick Cheney, saying that Cheney is moving for the US to be attacked again.

"It's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics," Panetta said in an interview published in the latest issue of the New Yorker.

His comments came after Cheney repeatedly criticized the Obama administration over its national security policies.

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Panetta: CIA No Longer Using Secret Prisons (Yeah, Right!)

The CIA is “no longer” operating secret prisons used by the intelligence agency to interrogate terror suspects, and plans to shut all remaining “black sites,” the spy agency’s director said Thursday.
The statement by the Central Intelligence Agency chief confirmed the spy service was carrying out an order from President Barack Obama to shut down the secret prisons that have been condemned at home and abroad as a flagrant violation of human rights.



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They don't call him 'Pinnochio Panetta' for nothing!