Cheney's Gallows Politics

Jane Meyer article on the CIA and its current director Leon Panetta in this month's The New Yorker.

Here's how the CIA director, the guy in charge of keeping the US safe, assesses Dick Cheney's politics, vis a vis, his current re-writing of history speaking tour:

Panetta, pouring a cup of coffee, responded to Cheney's speech with surprising candor. "I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue," he told me. "It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics."

Gallows politics. What a great way to describe Cheney. And not to say he let 9/11 happen, but look how much power he gained by letting America get attacked.

Source: New Yorker