Panetta Pleads for No CIA Punishment
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/080209c.htmlEditor’s Note: It seems that whenever a Republican administration gets caught abusing its power, the following Democratic administration balks at the hard work of accountability and urges the nation to “move on." Key news outlets, like the Washington Post, concur that it's time to let bygones be bygones.
Caught but not chastened, the Republicans soon regain power and resume abusing their authority, but the Democrats never recognize the connection between their see-no-evil reactions and the GOP’s do-whatever-you-want behavior, as ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman notes in this guest essay:
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The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable.
For the past several weeks, the Post has carried a series of editorial and op-eds that were designed to prevent the release of the Justice Department memoranda that permitted the use of CIA torture and abuse and to prevent any rigorous examination of these practices that went beyond the permitted guidelines.
On Sunday, the Washington Post carried an op-ed by CIA Director Leon Panetta that is entitled “Congress and the CIA: Time to Move On” and accuses Congress of seeking “retribution” from CIA officials who were simply implementing “presidential decisions.”
Panetta’s views are similar to those of former director Richard Helms who, in defending the CIA’s role in overthrowing the elected government in Chile, said that “we are all honorable men.” The following year, Helms was fined $2,000 and given a two-year suspended prison sentence for misleading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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