Posted on 07/08/2009 5:00:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Panetta Says CIA Officials Have Misled Congress Since 2001
By SIOBHAN GORMAN
WASHINGTON -- Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that CIA officials misled Congress "for a number of years" since 2001, according to a letter released Wednesday from six Democratic lawmakers.
The lawmakers say the CIA also withheld information about unspecified "significant actions."
The letter didn't identify when Mr. Panetta made the statements or to what they referred.
"This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods, " the letter continued.
CIA spokesman George Little said "it is not the policy or practice of the CIA to mislead Congress." Mr. Little said the CIA itself "took the initiative to notify the oversight committees" about the lapses.
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WTF?!
Well they certainly had the long knives out for Bush but I don’t believe a word Leon Panetta has to say.
Would that have been since September 11, 2001?
This is not going to end well.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288420/posts
Clearly the children have taken the government back over.
Trying to divert attention from the cratering economy by offering up bait in the hopes that the GOP will shift its attention back to Pelosi.
Bush’s fault...
Leon Panetta is a sack of turds, as trustworthy as Sandy Berglar.
Get the popcorn...this is going to be good. We might get to see Obama’s real birth certificate sooner than we thought!
I see a ‘war’ brewing between the CIA/NSA and everything ‘Obama’...including Panetta.
Since Congress leaks like a seive, only worse, I’d mislead them too.
Mighty handy year, Panetta. Huh???
"CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah," Mr. Panetta wrote in a memo to agency employees. "It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values." A day earlier, Mrs. Pelosi had claimed that CIA officials had "misled" her at a September 4, 2002 briefing on enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding of the likes of Zubaydah.
What kind of screwed up game is he playing?
They ONLY misled Congress under W, right? That’s certainly believable. /sarc
The CIA’s latest mission: Operation Cover Nancy’s Old Fat Rear-end.
Can’t be... Everyone KNOWS that the CIA was a sock puppet for BushCheneyHalliburton and thus didn’t start lying until July 2002 at the earliest...
/sarc
The house of cards are coming down and fast.
Yep, you just know that someone there has that elusive document!
Congress misleads the American public all the time both by lying and by heading in the wrong direction.
I wonder how much that cost the fascists....and who in the the CIA paid the price.
Agreed, the current Congress is in desperate need of Adult
supervision.
JJ61
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