Senate to investigate CIA's actions under Bush

Los Angeles Times ^ | 6:31 PM PST, February 26, 2009 | By Greg Miller

[granite]

The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history.

The probe is aimed at uncovering new information on the origins of the programs as well as scrutinizing how they were executed -- from the conditions at clandestine CIA prison sites to the interrogation regimens used to break Al Qaeda prisoners, according to Senate aides familiar with the inquiry plans.

[granite]

"The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if CIA officials broke laws, legislative sources say."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Senate Intelligence

The Mother of All Oxymorons.

[St. Louis Conservative]

You mean all the things that Obama confirmed will remain in place?

[Danae]

Keep them busy doing absolutely nothing please! This works just fine.

[Danae]

LMAO Isn’t that the truth??

[anniegetyourgun]

If we thought it was tough to get recruits over the “the farm” before....

[Bratch]

[Marathoner]

Keep them busy doing absolutely nothing please! This works just fine.

Lord, when do these a-holes go on their next recess (so we know our property is temporarily safe).

[tomnbeverly]

How many Billions of wasted taxpayer money will this cost?

and how is this stimulative?

[Thrownatbirth]

The Senate Intelligence Committee is well known for getting our contacts killed.

[Carling]

Or, they've literally spent all of the money and will now start imprisoning political opponents.

[Darkwolf377]

Wow. The dems investigating Bush policies after they said they wouldn’t? This IS a shock!

[SoldierDad]

Imagine were this to have happened during WWII or Vietnam.

[cripplecreek]

I suspect they’ll be trying to figure out which high ranking officials to remove and replace.

[madameguinot]

The only thing Bush did wrong was to fail to rein in the politicized, leaking CIA. They have it all backwards. In a normal world, Valerie Plame’s husband, the NYT, Congress, and members of the State and CIA would be in the dock for treasonous actions.

[PISANO]

Problem is the committee will release information if it is damaging to the previous administration and/or secret methods and practices that the general public doesn't need to know, much less the enemy.

It also gives a forum for LEAKS and BOGUS information released by the MSM from anonymous sources!!

A political witch hunt with the tragic effect of costing lives in the long run!

The Democrats are pathetic!

[Danae]

I can’t argue that. But it’s not as if they can do any damage to the previous administration. It amounts to name calling, which is what they whine every time we bring up Jimmah Carter’s CRA of 1977 and our current financial meltdown. But I forget myself, Irresponsibility is a Democrat’s JOB.

[4Speed]

I want Senate investigation of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank under Bush.
we got YouTube videos of Barney but we don’t have an Inestigation of the housing Sub prime Crisis !
I want some Flogging and Cane hits, I want some INVESTIGATIONS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“The ‘fact-finding’ effort”
Is to see if there are any secrets they can leak to our enemies that might be useful to them. In exchange for campaign funds, of course. Congress - public enemy number one.

[cpdiii]

he Senate Intelligence Committee is well known for getting our contacts killed.

Courtesy of Senator Leahey! If my memory serves me correctly it was the Station Chief in Atherns.