Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Monday said CIA Director Leon Panetta should “retract immediately” his statement that former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to be wishing for another terrorist attack.
“I disagreed with the Cheney policy on interrogation techniques, but never did it cross my mind that Dick Cheney would ever want an attack on the United States of America,” McCain said on Monday on Fox News. ” And it’s unfair, and I think that Mr. Panetta should retract, and retract immediately.”
Panetta said in a New Yorker article that it appeared as though Cheney is “wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point” in criticizing the Obama administration.
McCain took a jab at Panetta as well, saying, “By the way, I hear morale is not at an all-time high over at the CIA under Mr. Panetta’s leadership.”
