Why were liberals jumping on Pres. Bush over the CIA erasing thing?

Question

They have candidates that they endorse that don't know what their staff is doing.

Answer 1

Before Reagan got away with crimes by claiming that his subordinates were doing things that he didn't know about, we had Presidents that said, "The buck stops here."

Answer 2

the CIA kowtows their intelligence to suit the administration policies. in fact Robert Gates is famous for it. that was the M.O. of the Reagan administration. these are the same people. unless no one remembers the Casey and Gates led CIA intelligence fabricated the soviet global 'Terror Network'. according to the CIA then the soviets were behind the attempted assassination of the pope, the IRA etc.

kowtow!!

"On September 25, 1991, former CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman (now Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy) revealed that his colleagues, following hierarchical orders, had falsified their analysis in order to support the accusation. He declared to the US Senate intelligence committee that "the CIA hadn't any proof" concerning this alleged "Bulgarian connection""

Answer 3

The CIA is part of a cabinet department. (Department of Homeland Security). Bush wants to run the country like a company CEO. When something happens in a company, even if the CEO is not directly aware of it he must be held accountable. It happens all the time. Bush is ultimately accountable and responsible for what happens within his cabinet agencies.

Answer 4

The CIA isn't the President's staff; he is directly responsible for their actions.

I've never understood why some people want Bush to get credit for the slightest little thing, like gas prices going down two tenths of a cent per gallon, yet they refuse to allow anyone to place any blame on him for anything he's done wrong.

Answer 5

Bush has never had the balls to take responsibilty for anything that stinks of corruption. A candidate is not the same thing as the president, however. It is a far different standard and not really comparable. As far as people jumping on the president, there seems to be some question as to what he knew and when he knew it. Torture is a serious issue and so far testimony seems to suggest that Bush approved of torture.

Answer 6

Maybe the list of Bush's crimes and ethics violations and lies isn't long enough, and the "liberals" need new outrages daily to keep interested in politics. What else has Bush done to earn the paycheck he receives from us? My own list of his outrages is already too long, but then again, I have a good memory - I'm still fuming about Bush increasing the mercury levels in our drinking water. I'm still annoyed by his attempt to replace FDR's image with Ronald Ray-gun's, on the ten-cent piece. I guess I sweat the little things...

Answer 7

Bush derangement syndrome. They believe that the President is responsible for everything that goes on in the entire federal government.

Answer 8

Same reasons conservatives would jump on a Democratic president in any sort of similar hypothetical scenario. Partisan politics.

Answer 9

Its that inconvenient document, the U.S. Constitution that we libs insist on following that seems to have you guys in an uproar. They can do their jobs, just don't destroy the evidence. And stop pretending that the president wasnt briefed on anything.

Answer 10

I for one would have liked to have seen them. I'd love to see the look on a liberals face when it proves once and for all, that torture (if you want to call waterboarding that) does in fact work, and can save lives.

But I understand the CIA's reasons for destroying them. It would have been used as a weapon against them eventually by the anti-American libs.

Answer 11

what are they supposed to jump him over...the decrease in violence in Iraq, the surge working, the increase in jobs in America, the strongest economy on record? now if they would jump him over his sissy attitude on border security, I would go along. but democrats want an open border so they would never do that.