The other shoephone has dropped

I figured as much. Another competent government official sacked by Bushco for standing up for what's right. These clowns aren't capable of running a lemonade stand much less an entire country. Oh, and they wouldn't know the truth if it walked up and handed them a business card. Scumbags.

CIA chief sacked for opposing torture - Sunday Times - Times Online

The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed.

Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was “not quite as aggressive as he might have been” in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks.

Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: “It is not that Grenier wasn’t aggressive enough, it is that he wasn’t ‘with the programme’. He expressed misgivings about the secret prisons in Europe and the rendition of terrorists.”

As always, blind loyalty to Dear Leader counts more than ability and results. How can anyone think this administration is capable of keeping us safe?

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