CIA feud with Senate panel puts lack of post-9/11 accountability in spotlight
By Scott Wilson, WashPost, Published: March 11
To save his run for the Democratic presidential nomination six years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama turned to author William Faulkner for assistance in explaining how U.S. history has a way of shadowing its present politics.
“The past isn’t dead and buried,” Obama said, slightly embellishing the famous quote in his speech about race. “In fact, it isn’t even past.”
On Tuesday, the past again proved alive for Obama, who now faces a political quandary less personal but still fraught with history.
At the core of the accusations over whether the CIA spied on its Senate overseers is the legacy of Sept. 11, 2001 — and the full public accounting of U.S. actions in its aftermath that has never occurred.
The issues involved span two presidencies from two parties, and have placed a group of powerful Democratic senators against John Brennan, a trusted adviser whom Obama chose to head the CIA.
(More here.)
To save his run for the Democratic presidential nomination six years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama turned to author William Faulkner for assistance in explaining how U.S. history has a way of shadowing its present politics.
“The past isn’t dead and buried,” Obama said, slightly embellishing the famous quote in his speech about race. “In fact, it isn’t even past.”
On Tuesday, the past again proved alive for Obama, who now faces a political quandary less personal but still fraught with history.
At the core of the accusations over whether the CIA spied on its Senate overseers is the legacy of Sept. 11, 2001 — and the full public accounting of U.S. actions in its aftermath that has never occurred.
The issues involved span two presidencies from two parties, and have placed a group of powerful Democratic senators against John Brennan, a trusted adviser whom Obama chose to head the CIA.
(More here.)
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