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Dems: CIA briefers may have broken law
Politico ^ | May 14, 2009 | MANU RAJU

Posted on 05/14/2009 2:21:11 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner

Democrats on the House intelligence committee said Thursday that CIA officers broke the law in 2002 if they told Nancy Pelosi then that they had not yet engaged in waterboarding.

"If they make a false report, absolutely it's illegal," said Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "If they fail to make a report when they're obligated to that is also illegal — a violation of the National Security Act."

Said CIA Spokesman George Little: “It is not the policy of the CIA to mislead the United States Congress.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; briefing; cia; pelosi; waterboarding
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To: aeonspromise

I’m from southwestern Virginia, but now live in south-central Pennsylvania because of job.


41 posted on 05/14/2009 3:03:25 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

“”If they make a false report, absolutely it’s illegal,” said Adam Schiff (D-Calif.),”

- - - if they are Republicans.


42 posted on 05/14/2009 3:04:51 PM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The CIA is a law unto itself, with its own politics and agenda (as the plume affair clearly demonstrated), and I do not believe the democrats will come out of this with the upper hand.


43 posted on 05/14/2009 3:13:08 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: DTogo

Good question, good answer.


44 posted on 05/14/2009 3:14:47 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The ‘rats actually have laws that they follow?


45 posted on 05/14/2009 3:20:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: mathurine

“Was it John Keats who said “beauty is truth, truth beauty?”

If it was, then Keats fellow has given us conclusive proof (as if we needed it) that truth is not Nancy Pelosi, and Nancy Pelosi is not truth.


46 posted on 05/14/2009 3:27:41 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Rats digging deeper holes for themselves...


Not really. The poor guys who were just doing their job and briefing Nancy will be shackeled and taken away. They may even get to wear their own iron mask. You didn’t really think Nancy was going to take the fall, did you? But everyone who can vouch for the truth will.


47 posted on 05/14/2009 3:31:36 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
There isn't much in that business that's really "she said, he said." They go to remarkable lengths to prevent that. Somewhere there's a tape or signed documents, or the CIA wouldn't be doing this.

This can of worms should never have been opened.

48 posted on 05/14/2009 3:38:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"If they make a false report, absolutely it's illegal," said Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)....

I wish it were unlawful when politicians lie to the American public. If they put Nancy on the stand or have her interviewed by a Federal officer assigned to the "Truth Commission", I hope she gets Scooterized.

49 posted on 05/14/2009 3:40:01 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Hold on a minute, folks.

Democrats handled the 911 “truth commission” when Republican Rinos had the White House and the Congress and we all know how that turned out in the truth department. Everything was Bush's fault and Clinton's mob was perfectly innocent - really.

Even Sandy Berg with documents in his socks was not mentioned and not punished. Neither was the information he was trying to hide in those documents. I can see the Democrat's widows now panning for the cameras saying torture is evil and makes them cry. It is a terrible mistake for Republicans to permit the Democrats a untruth commission show trial.

The CIA has a loyal party member at the top who will not hesitate to toss some war on terror collaborators out for the wolves in order to protect the power of the party.

Unless the agents act outside the reach of their leader to turn it around on the Democrats, they are going to lose some people to this political show trial. The only documents that will be presented to the “truth” commission and that will be considered are the documents Obama’s man running the CIA decides to declassify with a lot of help from the Chicago thugs in the White House.

Those documents will show Bush and Cheney with a few bad agents as guilty as possible and Democrats totally innocent just like the 911 commission results.

You think these Rinos are going to protect anyone here? With McCain and twinkle toes and the stinkin’ sisters from New England leading the pack of wolves...the agents in the CIA are facing a united front of total power and total disloyalty to the US in the war on terror.

No Democrat/Rino show trials!

50 posted on 05/14/2009 3:43:45 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: atomicweeder

And more importantly, ALTERING any recording, tracelessly, to make it more authentic. You mess with spies and spymasters at your utter peril. . .

I wonder how long it will be until evidence surfaces that Pellousy is a pedophile. . . doesn’t have to be TRUE, just convincing. . .


51 posted on 05/14/2009 3:59:11 PM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: keepitreal

Nazi (No Oil for YOU!) Pelosi has been working on screwing up the country for ~900 days.


52 posted on 05/14/2009 3:59:12 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Squantos

>>>SNICKER!!<<<


53 posted on 05/14/2009 4:20:06 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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