Posted on 07/08/2009 4:31:12 PM PDT by advance_copy
House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes has suggested Republicans would be well advised to avoid politicizing the intelligence authorizaton bill later this week in light of evidence that, he says, shows that the CIA “affirmatively lied to” the panel.
In a Tuesday letter to his committee’s top-ranking Republican, Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, that was obtained by Congressional Quarterly, Reyes, D-Texas, wrote that the committee has recently received information that reveals significant problems with the intelligence agency’s reporting to the panel.
“These notifications have led me to conclude this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one occasion) was affirmatively lied to,” Reyes wrote.
Reyes did not describe or detail the alleged false or misleading statements to the committee.
“This agency and this director are committed to a candid dialogue with Congress,” said CIA spokesman George Little. “When Director Panetta believes something should be raised with the Hill, it gets done quickly and clearly. Our oversight committees recognize that.”
Republicans contend a provision of the fiscal 2010 bill (HR 2701) scheduled for floor action Thursday would modify congressional notification procedures to provide political cover for Speaker Nancy Pelosi . Such briefings are a sensitive political topic, because Republicans have repeatedly criticized Pelosi over what she knew and when about the Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation techniques and her assertion that the CIA “misled” Congress on that topic.
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What’s so bad about lying to Congress? They do it to us all the time.
What do the republicans have to do with it. If the CIA lies to congress smash them.
BULL!
Pelosi and Reid and Obama are the LYERS.
Isn’t it amazing how they will TRASH ANYONE that speaks the truth - even bashing the CIA who we depend on for their LACK OF INTELLIGENCE.
I’ve seen six-year-olds act more like adults than this bunch.
Are these not the same people who believed Valerie Plame?
Create a problem, block (with 60 votes) any attempt to investigate and stand by your no proof statement...
Democrats SUCK!
Sylvestre Reyes, the pride of Canutillo, Tx, does not know his butt from a hole in the ground. I doubt very seriously if he could have spelled half the words in that letter without staff assistance.
What did the CIA lie about? It’s probably something like they saiod they’d pour water on a terrorist’s head 128 times instead of the actual 130. You know, meaningless.
The CIA should start spilling the beans on these criminals in congress.
Did they question CIA’s veracity when they were going after Bush and Company?
Someone needs to remind this Texas Congresscritter that it was PELOSI who fired the first shot. “Well, you better not or the CIA’s gonna get it! So there!”
I hope any libtard lurkers recognize the irony of this.
Liberals “claim” to have evidence of lying by the CIA but are willing to keep it under wraps if republicans play ball.
If the CIA lied to congress, I want to know about it and democrats should not be hiding the evidence.
The lengths Dems will go to protect Pelosi as they line to hopefully prosecute the Bush administration of trumped up claims of torture.
Soon, conservatism will be outlawed in the country if we don’t stop these liberal neo-coms.
The CIA needs to run a covert operation and get that COLB before they are gotten by this bunch ... the CIA could “JFK” the Fubomb without firing a shot
Indeed. We also know that the CIA lost one of its liars when Valerie Plame quit.
Leon Paneeta is a Reagan Republican. WINK, WINK!
You say Paneeta, I say Panetta.
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