Calling out Panetta...

In his Washington Post gainsaying of what Sy Hersh and others have recently disclosed, Panetta's enfeebled, hypocritical plea for a just assessment of the agency he heads may play out in Des Moines, but readers of this blog have better things to do than indulge power brokers in their moment of need. For example--and for those sans culottes who care to storm something today--Stephen Webster's article at Raw Story informs us that:

"Democratic Congressman Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, has accused the agency of having 'deliberately lied' to his panel and said they will undertake an investigation of the intelligence agency."

Panetta: ‘Reality’ of 9/11 excuses Bush scandals

The good Representative Reyes of Texas' 16th district can be reached here:

Rep. Silvestre Reyes

The e-mail form requests a local constituent zip and city--which you enter as 79912 and El Paso, respectively--as well as an address (a creative entry like, e.g., 505 Walker Rd. will do the trick). You then add your compelling, measured, remarks on the subject of Herr Panetta. I closed with a "beg your pardon" for having written from outside of his district. That is, Reyes has requested that only his constituents write to him out of what he terms "congressional courtesy" to your actual representative [!]. However, the issues at hand cut across district parameters, and a simple nod to authority as to why you countermanded that rule ought to suffice--for both courtesy's sake and your argument's import and credibility.