Ray McGovern: " What's CIA Director Hayden Hidin'? " - Consortiumnews.com

Consortium News Editor Robert Parry writes: "Though last-minute donations are still coming in, we apparently will fall almost 50 percent short of our year-end fundraising goal of $50,000 -- the money needed to pay our freelance writers, to maintain our small staff and to support the Internet site." When you travel to this article by retired CIA Senior Analyst Ray McGovern consider a tax deductible gift donation. McGovern writes with style and authority ... [excerpt] Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden is going around town telling folks he has warned President-elect Barack Obama “personally and forcefully” that if Obama authorizes an investigation into controversial activities like waterboarding, “no one in Langley will ever take a risk again.” Upon learning this from what we former intelligence officers used to call an “A-1 source” (completely reliable with excellent access to the information), the thought that came to me in the face of such chutzpah was from Cicero’s livid oration against the Roman usurper Cataline: “Quousque, tandem, abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra!” — or “How long, at last, O Cataline, will you abuse our patience!”... Voltaire would enjoy reading this one. You can too, at Consortiumnews.com