JammieWearingFool found former Clinton-era National Security Advisor Sandy Burgla…er, Burger giving DCI-Designate (and fellow Clintonista) Leon Panetta a rather dubious endorsement. From the Washington Post story:
Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger, Lake’s deputy before becoming national security adviser himself, said that Panetta “was part of the decision-making process for every single issue we were dealing with, whether this was in the Oval Office with the president or the Cabinet Room — the Middle East, Kosovo, China. He was a part of a small group of people who advised the president how to proceed on strategy and substance.”
That would be the Middle East where the USS Cole got all-but-blown out of the water and where Hamas and the PLO got rewarded for decades of terrorism with bases from which to conduct the next phase of the destruction of Israel, the Kosovo where an F-117 got shot down to prop up separatist Islamists, and a Red China that cemented its position as the low-price importer of goods to the US.
I was actually neutral on Panetta’s pending appointment until this came out. Allow me to borrow JWF’s words – “That alone is enough to disqualify him.”
Would that be the same Panetta that was next to Clinton when Bill said..”Naw, I don’t want bin Laden”…
Can’t answer that with certainty. If Burger isn’t lying, it would certainly be probable.
Burger’s just happy that Panetta was sent to the CIA and not the FBI…chances are Panetta also knows what Larry was stuffing in his pants at the archives!