Central Intelligence does what it does best
The CIA. They’ve been keeping SECRETS and LYING to American elected officials? SHOCKING!!!
Dick Cheney. Pulling in powers to the Executive Branch, and denying any role for the Legislative Branch. That violates everything I suppose about anything.
Truth be told, though, this isn’t so much a power to the “Executive Branch” as it is, preferably, a “Permanent Government” — past Obama as before past Ford and Carter.
How to read Seymour Hersh. #1: Read him. #2: File away for later date. #3: At later date, go back and re-read, or failing that, garner a sense of recognition.
The two stories have converged, or at least run up to each other. I couldn’t really quite understand the partisan attacks against Pelosi some weeks back when she pledged that the CIA misled her. Without dipping a single toe into the specifics, what gave it away was the outrage of such an accusation “HOW DARE SHE” “ATTACK THE INTEGRITY” … such a thing is unfathomable.
One interesting question… Who cares about Nancy Pelosi? What I want to know is… Did Bush Know Anything and when did he know it? Was it anything more than, say for instance, Adam Sandler knew?
We can expect Dick Cheney to shortly come out in ameliorate the conditions with a good “We kept the Nation from attack.” I further suspect that the sort of basic assumption of a mass of his side is to question why Pelosi, extreme Leftist Ideologue she is, is worth any briefing. It’s a dangerous world.  She’s liable to squeal on any tough-minded measure that will keep us safe, undermining American Security for Political Gain.