Posted on 05/12/2009 4:20:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Democrats: CIA is out to get us By: Manu Raju May 12, 2009 06:28 PM EST
Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself.
“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was briefed on interrogation techniques five times between 2006 and 2007.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said he finds it “interesting” that a document detailing congressional briefings was released just as “some of the groups that have been responsible for these interrogation techniques were taking the most criticism.”
Asked whether the CIA was seeking political cover by releasing the documents, Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said: “Sure it is.”
The CIA has long been on the receiving end of harsh rebukes from Congress — on intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq, on secret prisons abroad and on the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. But with the release of records showing that it briefed members of Congress along the way, the CIA has effectively put lawmakers on the defensive.
Intelligence officials insist it wasn’t intentional and have not taken responsibility for publicly releasing the documents.
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I feel better already.
Such videos were seen? For real?
It’s a real pity the CIA no longer engages in domestic wet work.
The truth is so inconvenient sometimes, especially if it reveals the faults and lies of a liberal.
Bwaa-hah-hah! They got JFK, you’re next!
Let me get this. The Dems believe that the CIA murders its enemies. They then go out of their way to make the CIA their enemy. Then they are upset that the CIA leaks against them. They are going to be VERY unhappy.
Or, if not, maybe they can forge up a nice one.
Link for the coupon, please!
I imagine some CIA folks will get 'special' assignments.
exactly, sucks when the shoe is on the other foot.
However, the CIA leaks during the Bush admin. were a bunch of leftist ideologies that were actually just a bunch of paper pushers who never took their oaths seriously, now it's the actual analyst just calling the Congress members out when they lie and try to paint the CIA as a bunch of power mad maniacs
My guess is Levin’s pissed because he’s afraid that his name will pop up somewhere in those documents.
My money's on the flasher thingy guys.
Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself.The Obama administration released it (in that it's responsible for its release), and the Demwits are now trying to spin it into something done *to* themselves.
If they are whining, they have not learned their lesson.
Stay tuned......
Don't be absurd.
the horse’s ass Carl Levin quoted.
I can only hope so and I hope they succeed. Soon. And with complete finality.
Narcissism, projection and now paranoia.
See what happens when you close the state mental hospitals? You have all sorts of crazies running around and next thing you know they are in politics.
Massive Arkancide.....
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