McCain: CIA Program Secrecy Story Just Beginning

CNN:

Sen. John McCain thinks we haven't heard the last about allegations that former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered secrecy for a CIA surveillance operation after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

"If I know Washington, this is the beginning of a pretty involved and detailed story,"� McCain said Sunday on the NBC program "Meet the Press."

Read the whole story: CNN

Comments

[Derelict outlaw]

Wow this appears to be a bogus headline.

CNN abusing the MSNBC interview of McCain?

He says clearly that he wants to keep secret the entire affair and that it would be harmful to America's image to address the torture program, but nothing about the VP's secret CIA story.

Is there another interview?

[Didactic Curveball]

We haven't heard from Cheney yet because his spindoctors are still at work. Stay tuned.

[DLB]

"We haven't heard from Cheney yet because his spindoctors are still at work."

His?

Anyone seen any evidence about any of this?

[blood1]

WAIT A MINUTE: As boring as this may be, everyone needs to go to the MSNBC website and see what McCain said in total: He didn't want any further investigat­ion...CNN was walking back his statement!

[Amunaka]

Well it seems the bush administration has blamed everything on the CIA... anyway...o­pen it up...are they the ones to blame...?


Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11

June 01, 2009

Cheney restated his claim that "there was a relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back 10 years. It's not something I made up. ... We know for a fact that Saddam Hussein was a sponsor -- a state sponsor -- of terror. It's not my judgment. That was the judgment of our [intelligence community] and State Department­."

Cheney identified former CIA Director George Tenet as the "prime source of information" on the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/index.html

[timberdoodle]

McCain, Cheney and the rest of the criminals are all members of PNAC. This is why America is in the shape it's in today.

[Tom95134]

WHy would McCain admit this? Is it just a ploy to get the Democrats wrapped around the axle of chasing Cheney and knowing that Cheney has made sure there is no evidence left to be found?

[Derelict outlaw]

No it appears to just be a ploy to increase the HP's ad revenue to get you to click on over to CNN

[madisonhack]

Name once when John McCain was a hero, outside of the Hanoi Hilton. That doesn't count anymore...­lots of former POWs have made sacrifices since their service and without recognition. McCain has been a self-serving bureaucrat his whole political life.

[Antifascist-08]

He was an excellent pilot though. So what if he crashed 5 planes and never read the instruction book. He is a maverick!

[seachild]

he was never a hero...the fact that he survived after 'losing' so early in the game, doesn't make him a hero

[madisonhack]

I was being kind, just not very truthful. McCain has always been an opportunist that was born with a silver spoon much like our last President. I'm not sure who was the worst pilot between them.

[Sirapnov]

McCain will take any position to be appear interesting. Here is the same guy few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHfMQeo_Ag

As President Obama said Cheney's positions make this country less safe.

[RevRayGreen]

Mena Arkansas Airport...­...google it.

[mrsgm]

This is the McCain I wanted to vote for. The McCain who is not afraid of his own party. The McCain who was a good man. Where did this guy go in November?

[Vivianite]

McCain the 'good man' was a carefully constructed fabrication. He was nasty as a youth, nasty as an adult and he is bitter, nasty, and vindictive as an old guy.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

If you're right that McCain's image as a "'good man' was a carefully constructed fabrication," is it possible that any particular other politician's image as a 'good man" could be the result of a carefully constructed fabrication?

[Lucky123]

McCain didn't say a word about this until it was obvious that there was indeed a cover up. Where was he in the beginning when Pelosi needed support?
He's just jumping on the bandwagon now. This isn't the sign of a good man. It's the sign of a sad desperate man with no real values other than trying to make himself look good.

[seachild]

another blogger posted: "go to the MSNBC website and see what McCain said in total: He didn't want any further investigat­ion...CNN was walking back his statement!"

[MissKaren]

I'm pleased that McCain has returned to reality.

[bmermaid]

"He said he expected Cheney, who has yet to comment on the story, to speak up."

Yes, he will speak up. With more lies.
We need an investigation, not more lies.

[Thabit]

Now we know why Cheney was all over the place last month, he was trying to get licks in and make his trial partisan, but now that this surfaces all we hear is ... crickets

[apoyo]

He's probably hiding in his man size safe.

[Lucky123]

Wasn't he one of the loud mouths insisting that the CIA would never lie to Congress?

[LemonMeringue]

McCain betrayed his country (starting in 2004) and has betrayed dearly for it.

He could redeem himself by telling the truth, now.

(And get some delicious revenge at the same time.)

[LemonMeringue]

has PAID dearly for it

(not enough coffee yet)

[Pupadup4oBama]

He COULD redeem himself, but not when he says on the same show - Palin's quitting is the sign of a true leader.

Flip Flop, Flip Flop.

[LemonMeringue]

Now he has nothing to lose. Nothing at all. Why doesn't he just go back to being John McCain the Maverick and tell the truth? Nobody believes he has any respect for Palin.

Come on, John, finish out your career in a blaze of glory. Tell the truth. You can still be a hero.