Posted on 07/13/2009 12:45:37 PM PDT by pabianice
The Democrats’ war against our spies has taken two new turns. In their zeal to punish Bush administration officials -- and protect House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) from publication of the facts showing her complicity in then-legal waterboarding of terrorist prisoners -- the Democrats have again accused the CIA of lying.
This came during the same week when it was reported that Attorney General Eric Holder is considering the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute those who authorized and committed alleged torture of prisoners at CIA “black sites”, the secret prisons where high-value terrorists were interrogated since 9-11.
Holder’s move is a part of the Democrats’ war on our intelligence agents and those who authorized their activities in the essential work of gathering information to save American lives. If he proceeds, the “ongoing investigation” claim will effectively block all other inquiries, and could prevent for years the publication of information that could prevent further damage to our intelligence community.
This time, the accusation of a CIA lie is about an intelligence program that went on for years and was not revealed to Congress. In a June 26 letter to CIA Director Leon Panetta (concealed from House Intelligence Committee Republicans until it was sent and apparently leaked simultaneously to the press) seven House Dems asked Panetta to correct his May 15 statement that the CIA’s policy is not to mislead Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Obama and his Liberals are like the Borg. Until/unless conservatives get off their asses and push back, we are in for a reign of Leftist terror the likes of which we have never seen before in North America.
Read where Carter booted out 800 ‘spies’ to fend for themselves, some of whom were found and executed .....
I don’t think I would want to get into a lying battle with the CIA. Misinformation is thier gig after all.
Watching MSNBC democrats on this CIA attack I remember how they ran the Wilson/Plane stories daily for a year and played the part of democrat patriots defending our spys. Remember how they told us Plane was telling the truth because she was a CIA agent? , same as a war hero? How dare we question her version of events? Defending country Same rats attacking CIA and now we are defending them. Hugely ironic!
For EIGHT YEARS the CIA did it’s best to undermine the Bush Administration from Plame and her idiot husband on down.
That they’re being hammered by the Libs in Congress and in the White House now is SO poetic.
Make no bones about it: it SUCKS ASS that our intelligence is going down the crapper because of politics. But it’s been going that way for a long, long time....
The Goal: To take us back to the pre-911 era of intelligence walls, etc. that will ultimately, just as then, castrate our abilities to inhibit and deter future acts of terrorism within the U.S.
Lots of info on this one:
Democrats to investigate “secret” program reported by NYT in 2002 ...Panetta steps in it!
Washington Post also reported on the CIA in Oct 2001.
Dems are insisting on another hearing into Cheney’s role in the new CIA scandal. How about a hearing into the cause of the economic collapse? How about an investigation into the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? How about simply investigating the firing of Inspector General Walpin?...........................................
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.