CIA business

From a Yahoo! News story: “WASHINGTON – The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program. Sen. Diane Feinstein says that CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators last month that Dick Cheney as vice president had ordered the program not be disclosed to Congress. Feinstein says that Congress was kept in the dark and that, in her words, "that's something that should never, ever happen again." The New York Times reported that the CIA withheld information for eight years about a secret counter-terrorism program on direct orders from Cheney.” I see nothing unusual here. This is political gossip. It’s the CIA’s job to gather secrets and keep them. If they share them with anyone – especially the Senate Electocracy – the secrets will leak out, no? By the way, that's not Diane Feinstein on the left. That's no secret. Please.

Extradition

From a Yahoo! News story: “MADRID, – A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday. Human rights lawyers brought the case before leading anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to decide whether it had merit, Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who brought the charges, told The Associated Press.” One question: Why not pursue Bush and Cheney as well? The Spaniards wholeheartedly sanctioned the Inquisition for more than a century and now they are getting faint hearted at water boarding? Please. Stop this self-serving hypocrisy.