Background: The feds are covering their asses for, shall we say, a medieval approach to CIA police work when the shit hit the fan after 9/11.
Say what you like about Barack Obama, but hit-and-run writers looking for a gag line will miss that man. As in this Associated Press scoop about CIA brutality after the 911 debacle.
"...the document, which was circulating this week among White House officials and which the White House accidentally emailed to an Associated Press reporter... "
No one -- not Mark Twain, nor Will Rogers, nor P.J. O'Rourke -- could improve on that, so I'll be damned if I'll try.
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The funny thing is, if the admin really wants to throw the CIA under the bus it's a perfectly legit time to trot out old faithful "Bush Did It." Obama's fingerprints didn't have to be on CIA atrocities at all, if he didn't want to put them there.
Yes. This guy seems to expanding even his ward-heeler politics incompetence, something I didn't really expect to see.
I've considered reviving my old shop-worn "His Ineptness" designator, but it seems too much like hitting a down man after the bell. Or throwing firecrackers at a three-legged coyote.
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