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Pelosi: Panetta Never Briefed Me on CIA Misleading Congress
newsmax.coim ^ | July 10, 2009 | staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; congress; panetta; pelosi

1 posted on 07/11/2009 7:54:01 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

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


2 posted on 07/11/2009 7:59:06 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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To: kellynla

Part 2. She can’t let go. Obsessive-compulsive. She needs to go.


3 posted on 07/11/2009 8:02:27 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: kellynla

IOW Nan you are totally Clueless!


4 posted on 07/11/2009 8:09:12 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: kellynla

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!


5 posted on 07/11/2009 8:10:49 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: kellynla

Briefly dropping her guard, the real San Fran Nan is exposed.

This woman is an absolute IDIOT!

6 posted on 07/11/2009 8:11:37 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: kellynla

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.


7 posted on 07/11/2009 8:12:19 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
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To: kellynla

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.


8 posted on 07/11/2009 8:12:26 AM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
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To: Thank You Rush

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?


9 posted on 07/11/2009 8:13:38 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: kellynla

“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”


10 posted on 07/11/2009 8:16:56 AM PDT by maggief
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To: kellynla

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.


11 posted on 07/11/2009 8:42:39 AM PDT by norton
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To: kellynla

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.


12 posted on 07/11/2009 8:46:59 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: kellynla

Pelosi had better be carefull. Panetta can destroy her in a nanosecond.


13 posted on 07/11/2009 10:05:43 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

carefull = careful.


14 posted on 07/11/2009 10:06:51 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

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


15 posted on 07/11/2009 10:15:46 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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