Posted on 07/11/2009 7:54:01 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she was not briefed by CIA Director Leon Panetta about the agency misleading U.S. lawmakers routinely.
"I have not had that briefing from Director Panetta," the California Democrat said during her weekly news conference.
Her comments came as seven House Democrats wrote a letter to Panetta saying he had testified the spy agency routinely provided misinformation to Congress since 2001, CNN reported.
In addition, the chairman of the House intelligence committee accused the CIA of lying to the panel in a classified matter, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, in a letter to House leadership, said CIA officials "affirmatively lied" to the committee when notifying it about a classified matter in June. In his letter Tuesday, Reyes wrote it was one of several recent instances in which the CIA did not fully inform the committee.
The letter to Panetta, dated June 26, was published on the Web site of Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.
In May, Pelosi accused the CIA of misleading Congress in a classified briefing she received in 2002. The CIA said Pelosi was told about the harsh techniques, including waterboarding, at the briefing.
CIA spokesman George Little said Panetta "stands by his May 15 statement" when he said the CIA did not mislead Congress during the briefing cited by Pelosi.
Pelosi told reporters Thursday she has seen the letters and "obviously they have concern" but didn't have any more information.
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of course Leon never briefed this little lying sos he hadn’t been appointed yet but other members of the CIA did brief her now get with it Nancy
Part 2. She can’t let go. Obsessive-compulsive. She needs to go.
IOW Nan you are totally Clueless!
Please don’t tell me there is another shrew in the wings to pick up where Pelosi/Feinstein/Boxer leave off - if we are ever lucky enough to send them packing!

Briefly dropping her guard, the real San Fran Nan is exposed.
This woman is an absolute IDIOT!
Unfortunately Nancy Pelosi has absolutely NO Common Sense and doesn’t know when to SHUT her lying lips.
Californians who vote for her should be screened for Mental Illness or Defect.
Whenever you put two Democrats in the same room, two of them are lying.
Pelosi is a stand-up liar, a psychopath, because she has no qualms about it. Panetta is a passive-aggressive liar, sneaky and furtive. Whereas Pelosi doesn’t care if she gets caught, Panetta does not like getting caught lying.
Shrew meaning Eshoo! Looked at her website and she certainly looks as tho’ she’d be chomping to rise in the ranks... Do these phoneys ever have enough American flags flying when they appear in public?
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”
Somewhere (not Philadelphia) W. C. Fields and Will Rogers are spinning in their graves because this kind of stuff wasn’t available when they were here to take advantage of it.
Whaaa, I didn’t know this, I wasn’t told that, they didn’t explain it fully to me!
Obviously, she not capable of doing her job and needs to step down.
Pelosi had better be carefull. Panetta can destroy her in a nanosecond.
carefull = careful.
I don’t know about Panetta, he being a good comrade in the ‘Rat party and all, but I wouldn’t wanna “piss-off” the CIA. LOL
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