The set-up is that he's a liberal intelligence agent (as if all cops and military are republican). He gave a nice speech about abiding by civil rights and how 9/11 was akin to shoving a stick in a giant computer. Devastating yes, but hardly an institutional flaw. It was a nice comment...
...which didn't make the least bit of sense story wise considering that Cross *shot a man's finger off* in an earlier issue to get the information he needed.