Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid is trying to gin up outrage over a non-scandal — the claim that CIA director and secretary of defense nominee Leon Panetta is somehow disqualified for both jobs because he purportedly had “had a close and personal relationship with a member of the Communist Party by the name of Hugh DeLacy, whose record included meeting with communist espionage agents.” He writes in a June 14 AIM article:
Rather than have boxes of material dumped on us, as happened in the case of Palin, we have researched hard-to-find Congressional hearings, conducted interviews and examined clippings from decades ago, university archives and the Congressional Record. It’s the kind of reporting that Bob Woodward of the Post was known for during Watergate.
Funny, we thought Woodward was best known in Watergate for meeting with a secret source in a parking garage. Is Kincaid doing that?
Not really — he’s just red-baiting. And he’s doing something else as well — he’s collaborating with a foreign national to bring down an American official.
Kincaid states that he is working with “my friend and associate Trevor Loudon” to attack Panetta. Loudon, right-wing activist, is a resident and citizen of New Zealand who is obsessed with communism and has fed many of Aaron Klein’s guilt-by-association attacks on President Obama and his advisers. (Klein is repeating this attack on Panetta as well, crediting Loudon but not Kincaid.)
Why is Kincaid conspiring with foreigners to attack Americans? Does he hate America that much?