Yes, we’ve been saying it for years, but it is doubleplus good to hear someone who was fairly high up in the Executive Branch state the obvious.

Lawrence Wilkerson is a good man, and he’s not afraid to tell the truth or ruffle feathers. It is a pity that the Reign of Error didn’t have a lot more Wilkersons, and a lot fewer Cheneys. It is also beyond sad that scum like Dick Cheney were basically allowed to run their murderous scams unfettered, because the Legislative Branch refused to exercise its Constitutional prerogative of oversight of the Executive Branch.

Just think what Wilkerson might have helped Congress get done, if the Congress was something other than a body of worms.

The former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell — who of late has been supportive of more liberal positions — launched a stunning broadside against the Democratic-controlled Congress Wednesday, asserting that it’s been “spineless” when it comes to oversight and the most feckless he’s seen in 65 years.

Former Powell aide Col. Lawrence Wilkerson said he agrees with Democrats who say the CIA isn’t known for telling the truth. But he also launched a salvo at Congress for its alleged failure to investigate abuses of power.

“We could have less feckless leadership in the Congress in terms of oversight,” Wilkerson said. “And I’m not just talking about the Select Committees in the House and the Senate for Intelligence. I’m talking about the leadership in the Congress.

“This has been the most feckless Congress ever since 2000 that I’ve seen in my 65 years,” Wilkerson added. “I just don’t think there’s leadership over there. It’s spineless, it lacks courage, lacks political will.

He continued: “I shudder for the fact that we’ve got to face these economic and financial challenges we’ve got to face — Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and other things — and we don’t have a Congress that has any leadership.”

Wilkerson also told CNN’s Kiran Chetry that the CIA regularly didn’t tell the whole truth in briefings. “The leadership of the CIA does not have a stellar record about telling the full and unequivocal truth about its covert operations,” he said.

But Wilkerson doesn’t think that an investigation into the CIA’s practices would bear fruit. “I doubt very seriously if [Speaker Nancy Pelosi] has the kind of power — and I mean this seriously — to cause evidence to come forward from the CIA that would be self-incriminating. I just don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Wilkerson is right. Due to their abandonment of their jobs, neither “Nanny” Pelosi or her Senatorial counterpart, “Stepnfetchit” Reid, would be taken very seriously by anybody if all of a sudden they started demanding answers. Why should anyone bother paying attention to them now, after all this time? They might as well just go back into their wormholes.

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