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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Now the Democrats are taking on the CIA? Grab the popcorn, folks. This would be humorous if what the Dems are doing to sabotage our intelligence operatives wasn’t so serious.
What goes around comes around.
You are either for us or against us.
Tin foil hats on sale at Wal-Mart for $7.95 and you get a buck off with the coupon
Paybacks are a bitch.
As my MOTHER use to say “Play nice or I will duct tape you together, then you will have to get along”!
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I laughed so hard my stomach hurts!! Then I looked for the humor keyword. This is just so unbelievable!!
The part Democrats always forget — Pay back is the real biatch.
Sounds to me like the senators are running scared.
The CIA should release some documents on Carl Marx Levin.
Maybe they need to be “gotten”.
Are there any bigger traitors to this country than Levin and Durbin? That these contemptible scumbags keep getting re-elected is a sad commentary on the state of the republic.
Poetic justice...Bush was destroyed by leaks...now the shoe is on the other foot...will wonders never cease...a Bushie mole is leaking....:-)
Agreed. But what Levin says is very funny. Funny that they actually expect to be believed!!!!
the truth hurts, especially when one is a liar.
The CIA has been open l;oop fgor quite a while now. It needs to be eliminated and a new agency built from the ground up. (See Valerie Plame)
Joke right?
One can only hope.
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