Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute - Leon Panetta canceled the CIA program when he found out about it.
By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 10, 2009
Excerpt:
Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the initiative and schedule a pair of closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.
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Some Republicans, meanwhile, privately questioned whether Panetta — who has stood with CIA officers in a dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — was looking to score points with House Democrats.
The program remains classified, and those knowledgeable about it would describe it only vaguely yesterday. Several current and former administration officials called it an “on-again, off-again” attempt to create a new intelligence capability and said it was related to the collection of information on suspected terrorists that was instituted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070903017.html?hpid=topnews
“Some Republicans, meanwhile, privately questioned whether Panetta — who has stood with CIA officers in a dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — was looking to score points with House Democrats.”
The RATS are looking to go back to the pre-911 days. They will do this by purging the agency of actual workers and bring on more NE Liberal weenies to run cover for them.
Sounds like an “Able-Danger” sort of activity. It likely wouldn’t make the news if it didn’t have substantial domestic content.