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Panetta Admits CIA Misled Congress on “Significant Actions”
CQPolitics ^ | 7/9/09 | Tim Starks

Posted on 07/09/2009 5:52:45 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun

CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House Intelligence Committee that the agency had misled and “concealed significant actions from all members of Congress” dating back to 2001 and continuing until late June, according to a letter from seven Democrats on the panel.

The letter was dated June 26, two days after Panetta appeared before a closed door session with the committee and it asked that the CIA chief “correct” his statement from May 15 that “it is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhocia; cia; congress; panetta; politicalhackery
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To: DManA

No doubt there are some, but the Plame bitch was outed. My wife went to college with two electrical engineers that went to work for the CIA a number of years ago—this is an N=2, but neither were liberals.


21 posted on 07/09/2009 6:34:08 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: Neoliberalnot

I can’t imagine their world view is healthy for a career in the CIA.


22 posted on 07/09/2009 6:37:29 AM PDT by DManA
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To: anniegetyourgun
Not that I plan on going postal or anything, but I am beginning to understand the hatred of the government they were living under that led the Founding Fathers to pen the Declaration of Independence.

The government in Washington is as out of touch with me living here in the Midwest as King George was in England back in the 1770s to the colonies.

23 posted on 07/09/2009 6:38:33 AM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

I wonder. This should be page one news in the NYTimes and other left wind newspapers. Why the story broke in a beltway insider publication is strange. If true, this demands an investigation, and both the Senate and House should demand explanations.


24 posted on 07/09/2009 6:41:53 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: anniegetyourgun
Speaking of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, from 2006....

Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda

25 posted on 07/09/2009 6:48:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: anniegetyourgun

I suspect collusion between the Democratic congressional leadership, the White House, and Panetta. Panetta is contradicting what he said just a few weeks ago. He needs to be asked what changed his mind. And the date for the beginning of the alleged CIA shenanigans is suspicious - 2001, the beginning of the Bush administration.


26 posted on 07/09/2009 6:48:37 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle

CIA insiders may be put off by Panetta’s groveling to Pelosi....hopefully Hoekstra can bring some transparency to this.


27 posted on 07/09/2009 6:58:23 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: Steve_Seattle

We need a list of every secret that was told to Congress and their staffs that were subsequently leaked! No wonder CIA can’t tell them everything. Feinstein leaked that we had a RPV base in Pakistan. Many other examples of “loose lips”.


28 posted on 07/09/2009 7:01:42 AM PDT by Claytonbridge
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To: anniegetyourgun

I think if the CIA lied congress, the head of the CIA should be fired.

If the CIA did not lie, the speaker of the house should be removed from office.

If both happened, both need to be removed.

Either way, people have to go.


29 posted on 07/09/2009 7:03:42 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Claytonbridge

Waiting for charges.


30 posted on 07/09/2009 7:07:06 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: VTenigma

“Took awhile to concoct this BS to cover Pelosie’s ass. The fix is in”

Correct. Penis pinching Pelosi doesn’t like her polls numbers. Leon made her look bad.


31 posted on 07/09/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: anniegetyourgun
any specifics??
32 posted on 07/09/2009 7:27:39 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Bigun

Exactly!......Nancy ran boo-hooin’ to BO and BO told Leon to layoff and LIE about the LYING!


33 posted on 07/09/2009 7:30:57 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Republicans need to pounce on this. Make the Democrats put up or STFU.


34 posted on 07/09/2009 7:32:04 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: LeonardFMason
‘zackly. This is as good as the Washington Post offering “non confrontational” interludes for $25,000.
35 posted on 07/09/2009 7:54:04 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: elpadre

FoxNews covering Pelosi’s morning presser - I’m hoping someone from the media will ask. Any moment now.


36 posted on 07/09/2009 7:54:46 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

Queen Pelosi fig leaf alert...


37 posted on 07/09/2009 7:57:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: anniegetyourgun

Leave it to the ‘Rats to keep violating the First Rule of Holes...


38 posted on 07/09/2009 7:57:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: anniegetyourgun
I'm not a fan of the CIA.

But I think posters need to read the article a bit more closely before commenting.

Panetta is being accused of admitting to lies...his/their comment was that he stood by his statement that it is not policy to mislead.
It's clear to me that the dems are grasping a single statement, or even a legitimate breach of that policy, as cover for Pelosi's generalized accusation.
It's certainly of note that the letter claims that such "lies" started in 2001 - like no one had thought of telling a fib under Clinton or at any time before...

Of course, CIA warps information to suit its prior findings - can't be showing off our little mistakes when there is funding to be lost.
But, on the subject Nancy set off her whine over, just the mention of extraordinary methods (water boarding)would have been sufficient in any briefing. Congress is supposed to take action - approve, disapprove, or get more detail before deciding - not to come back years later and demand a do-over.

A more fitting title for this would be:
"Congress points at the other guy"

39 posted on 07/09/2009 8:08:38 AM PDT by norton
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To: Bigun; All

I totally agree.

I remember how Rush talked about the Clinton’s stacking the CIA with their cronies thereby undermining the Bush admin from the get-go.

From what Rush was able to unearth .. I was convinced that the CIA was being used by the dems to subvert Bush’s ability to conduct foreign policy.

I think there were even letters/memos from the DEMOCRAT head of the intel committee stating they WERE using their positions to subvert the Bush admin.

And .. how can we forget the Scooter Libby case - which was supposedly the exposure of a CIA operative - and she turned out to be just an analyst.

Remember, the dems mode of operation is “projection” - whereby they always accuse the repubs of doing the very stuff they are doing themselves. I don’t know how many appointments Bush made to the CIA operation - but surely there were a lot more career dems within the CIA that Bush did not remove (which was and is a big mistake). This was NOT a BUSH organization .. which I see Pelosi and the other dems trying to prove by saying the CIA was lying since 2001 - which is when Bush came into office.

And .. if the CIA did lie to Congress - this should acquit the Bush admin regarding the info the CIA gave to them regarding the war in Iraq. I can actually see this dust-up ending up in Bush’s favor. Proving once again that the dems never look ahead to the consequences of their actions.


40 posted on 07/09/2009 8:33:01 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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