Panetta: Cheney Almost Wishing For America To Be Attacked CIA Director Leon Panetta told the New Yorker that former Vice President Dick Cheney may be hoping for America to be attacked by terrorists. “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics,” Panetta said of Cheney’s recent speeches. “When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”
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