CIA Admits It Misled Congress in Past, Lawmakers Say

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Sighhhh...for all of the bluster...

Separately, the House committee’s chairman, Democrat Silvestre Reyes of Texas, said in a statement tonight that “in rare instances’’ CIA officers “have not adhered to the high standards’’ that the agency sets for “truthfulness in reporting’’ to Congress.

Reyes, who wasn’t among the six lawmakers who signed the letter to Panetta, praised the CIA chief’s “recent efforts to bring issues to the committee’s attention’’ that “had not been previously conveyed’’ to it.

Reyes was blunter in a July 7 letter to the panel's top Republican, saying that the CIA had lied to the committee at least once.

Information Panetta gave the panel June 24 “brought to light significant information on the inadequacy of reporting to the committee,’’ Reyes wrote to Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan.

The information provided by Panetta “led me to conclude that this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notification and (in at least once case) was affirmatively lied to,’’ Reyes said in a letter, first reported by Congressional Quarterly.

The disclosures came on the eve of a scheduled House debate on an intelligence spending measure. It would expand the number of lawmakers who must be notified of covert intelligence operations from eight congressional leaders to more than 35 members of House and Senate intelligence panels.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090709/pl_bloomberg/ah8z1bayuba

 

[meesterperfect]

Just good old ass covering.
passing the buck.
but you believe what you want.

House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio has challenged Pelosi to either produce evidence to support her claim or retract her assertion that the CIA “misrepresented every step of the way” its use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists.

Has she done that yet?

 

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Just good old ass covering.
passing the buck.
but you believe what you want.

House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio has challenged Pelosi to either produce evidence to support her claim or retract her assertion that the CIA “misrepresented every step of the way” its use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists.

Has she done that yet?

You're citing and old statement and soon enough Boehner will be trying to spin a statement to get the egg off of his face. Can you say foot in mouth disease? Pelosi didn't have to....If you read the article, Panetta just did in June.

Separately, the House committee’s chairman, Democrat Silvestre Reyes of Texas, said in a statement tonight that “in rare instances’’ CIA officers “have not adhered to the high standards’’ that the agency sets for “truthfulness in reporting’’ to Congress.

Reyes, who wasn’t among the six lawmakers who signed the letter to Panetta, praised the CIA chief’s “recent efforts to bring issues to the committee’s attention’’ that “had not been previously conveyed’’ to it.

Reyes was blunter in a July 7 letter to the panel's top Republican, saying that the CIA had lied to the committee at least once.

Information Panetta gave the panel June 24 “brought to light significant information on the inadequacy of reporting to the committee,’’ Reyes wrote to Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan.

The information provided by Panetta “led me to conclude that this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notification and (in at least once case) was affirmatively lied to,’’ Reyes said in a letter, first reported by Congressional Quarterly.

Shit speaks for itself. Explain exactly what is the "ass covering" (if you can).

 

[D-rock]

So,....and I hate defending the women, but where all those people that were on here a while back that were bitching about Pelosi and basically saying she was a liar now?

 

[Galactic]

Sighhhh...for all of the bluster...



http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090709/pl_bloomberg/ah8z1bayuba

Are you surprised? Of course they have "mislead"........I hope they continue to do so......Congress is a fucking free for all.....I trust the CIA waaaayyyyy more than the bunch of yahoos in Congress, that's for damn sure.

 

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Are you surprised? Of course they have "mislead"........I hope they continue to do so......Congress is a fucking free for all.....I trust the CIA waaaayyyyy more than the bunch of yahoos in Congress, that's for damn sure.

Unless of course it's a GOPer congress huh?

Lemme guess, when the same CIA accused the Bush WH of outing one of it's NOCs your "trust" for them then wasn't as strong huh?

Rush and Hannity said she was a "desk jockey" and I'll be damned if every GOPer within listening distance didn't parrot it as gospel....in spite of what the people who actually employed her were saying....(but we all know in GOPer loony land Rush knows more about the nature of the woman's job than her bosses).

Before it was "Pelosi is toast" and "Langely was about to be up Pelosi's ass" ....Now it's well by golly of course they lie....:rofl:

Make up your minds....oh, I forgot...it's difficult to be consistent when an agenda is more important than the truth.:wave2: