Panetta Pleads for No CIA Punishment
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.
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The editor's note on the piece says: 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