Tue 29 Jun, 2010
Would someone please punch this cunt in the face?
Who’s giving David Gregory a run for his money on not asking tough questions:
TAPPER: I know you can’t discuss certain classified operations or even acknowledge them, but even since you’ve been here today, we’ve heard about another drone strike in Pakistan and there’s been much criticism of the predator drone program, of the CIA. The United Nations official Phil Alston earlier this month said quote, “In a situation in which there is no disclosure of who has been killed for what reason and whether innocent civilians have died, the legal principle of international accountability is by definition comprehensibly violated.” Will you give us your personal assurance that everything the CIA is doing in Pakistan is compliant with U.S. and international law?
PANETTA: There is no question that we are abiding by international law and the law of war. Look, the United States of America on 9/11 was attacked by Al Qaida. They killed 3,000 innocent men and women in this country. We have a duty, we have a responsibility, to defend this country so that Al Qaida never conducts that kind of attack again. Does that make some of the Al Qaida and their supporters uncomfortable? Does it make them angry? Yes, it probably does. But that means that we’re doing our job. We have a responsibility to defend this country and that’s what we’re doing. And anyone who suggests that somehow we’re employing other tactics here that somehow violate international law are dead wrong. What we’re doing is defending this country. That’s what our operations are all about.
TAPPER: I’d like to move on to Iran, just because that consumes a lot of your time as director of the CIA. Do you think these latest sanctions will dissuade the Iranians from trying to enrich uranium?
Really Jake? You’re really going to move on to Iran after Leon Panetta said he’s protecting this country by dropping bombs on innocent Afghan civilians? For Christ’s sake man, sack up and ask Panetta a follow up question.
Don’t have a follow up question? I’ve got a couple: ask him how murdering 92 children in Garani is protecting this country. Ask him how torturing prisoners at Bagram air base is protecting this country. Ask him how giving Blackwater hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars is protecting this country. Or you could ask him WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE IRAQI WMDS BITCH?! WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR 7 GODDAMN YEARS, AND YOU HAVEN’T FOUND SHIT!
Of course asking any of these questions would mean you have Michael Hastings size balls.
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Jennifer B says:
Not sure why he gave him the drone “out” by specifically mentioning drones in Pakistan, then not following up with questions on the well-known attacks in Yemen and Somalia. And talks of drones flying in the US. The lack of follow up for Blackwater/Xe not much better.
Reporters make the world less safe when they fail to hold our government accountable for the things they do in the name of National Security
I read his twitter, I know he blames it on time, but that’s a bullshit excuse. He pounds his chest and claims he asks tough questions, but he doesn’t follow up or demand the real answers. He goes harder on Robert Gibbs during white house briefings; that’s an easy target.
His groupies on twitter should stop giving him virtual hand-jobs and take an honest look his piss poor interviewing. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so surprised that ABC looked to CNN for a new host of This Week, instead of keeping him. I hope Penetta comes back on when Christiane is host so we can get some real answers.
Phuck Politics says:
@Jennifer B – Jake Tapper spend most of his time with Panetta pounding the war drum against Iran. It was sickening.
On a different note, I just want to let you know I loved this sentence:”His groupies on twitter should stop giving him virtual hand-jobs and take an honest look his piss poor interviewing.”
Bravo Jennifer, bravo.