“Now what will Dick Cheney have to say?” said Cheryl Sullivan in The Christian Science Monitor. The “self-appointed defender-in-chief of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism policies” is back in the news amid reports that he directly ordered the CIA to keep Congress out of the loop on an eight-year-old, “still-unspecified CIA program,” which CIA Director Leon Panetta killed June 24, right after he learned of it.
Those charges against Dick Cheney are “political dynamite,” said the Las Vegas Sun in an editorial. By law, the CIA has to keep Congress’ intelligence committees informed of covert activities. The CIA is reviewing the situation, but Congress needs to investigate, too. “It is frightening to think of our government keeping Congress in the dark about its secret activities.”
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