Posted on 07/11/2009 2:08:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project By SCOTT SHANE
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.
Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.
Efforts to reach Mr. Cheney through relatives and associates were unsuccessful.
The question of how completely the C.I.A. informed Congress about sensitive programs has been hotly disputed by Democrats and Republicans since May, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the agency of failing to reveal in 2002 that it was waterboarding a terrorism suspect, a claim Mr. Panetta rejected.
The law requires the president to make sure the intelligence committees “are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity.” But the language of the statute, the amended National Security Act of 1947, leaves some leeway for judgment, saying such briefings should be done “to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters.”
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Cheney Derangement Syndrome........
Foolish nonsense.......
NYT is just pissed they weren’t able to ruin it and give terrorists a heads up.
Aha. The real reason for the accusation appears in print. Ginning up yet another attack on Mr. Cheney.
They are gonna just spray sh*t everywhere in hopes that something will stick, aren’t they?
NY Slimes? Nonsense
Maybe we should unleash the CIA on the MSM, that would be fun to watch.
Good for Cheney!
So lets quit screwing around and get on with the trials. Unless of course there is nothing really there and this is all more rumor mongering of the democrats.
If there are any libtard lurkers, I urge you to demand action right now. Lets see your hand.
It will be proved to be a lie.
It’s rumored he changed which loop he used in his belt too, sometime around 2007.
“Cheney Derangement Syndrome........ “
Cheney.......Haliburton.......Nazi........Haliburton..............
Cheney.....Nazi.......Haliburton....blah......blah......blah
I don’t think taking on Cheney is going to prove any better a tactic than last time.
And in other news, unemployment rockets past 10% on its way to 15%.
and I’m sure that Cheney will turn around and b!tchslap them all within 48 hours....
these people are utter morons- everytime they try and pull Cheney into an arguement they end up walking away with their tail between their legs after he pounds them into the ground....
An attempt to take the focus off their failing administration.
I was thinking the same thing. Can’t wait to see Cheney taking them on again. Hope Liz Chaney comes out to play as well, tag team style.
Well, it isn’t very secret anymore.
The moment the Democrats find out about it, they run to the phones and call the New York Times.
Good not to share every last jot and tittle with these jokers, if you take operational secrecy seriously. They are incapable of maintaining any kind of secrecy.
It is just too pat, coming right after Pelosi's unfounded and lieing accusation of not being briefed.
Meantime--is anyone anywhere paying attention to whereC cap and Trade is trying to lead us? Al Gore knows--he made a statement a couple days ago about us soon coming under UN global governance, and thus global warming taxation by UN.
Our whole country is coming apart--No! being dismantled by this Marxist Admin. and the d@#n Congress doesn't want to know. They are too busy with their partisan bickering.--Maybe that, too, is part of the plan.
vaudine
The NYT is using the news cycle to distract folks from the failures of Obama. Playing the Bush/Cheney card at this stage is pathetic.
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