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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