Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times

[kpete]

Source: The Hill


Dems say CIA may have misled Congress 5 times
By Jared Allen - 10/27/09 08:24 PM ET

The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday.


Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading an investigation into what they described as a practice of incomplete and often misleading intelligence briefings, which arose in the wake of CIA Director Leon Panetta’s June 24 admission that intelligence officials failed to notify Congress about a top-secret program to assassinate al Qaeda leaders.

“That is an example of a failure to notify but we think a symptom of a larger disease,” Schakowsky said on Tuesday.

“There have been many instances where we’ve come to a committee hearing, after having read in the paper of something that should have been notified to us, where it’s followed up my mea culpas by the intelligence community,” Schakowsky said. “And examples where the committee actually has been lied to.

“You can understand that the committee has felt very frustrated that the executive branch has not notified us of intelligence activity,” she said. “We’re in the process of reviewing several instances where the executive branch may have violated the requirements that are in the National Security Act.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/65111-dems-say-cia-may-have-misled-congress-5-times

[Wilms]

1. Only 5 times? Sounds like they're slipping. n/t

[pleah]

2. "may have" I hate those words. n/t

[onehandle]

3. All CIA roads lead to the Bush Family.

No Bush family member should ever hold office or head an agency again.

[phasma ex machina]

16. With 90+% of the CIA personnel holding down an office chair in the good old USA

most roads lead to an extremely lucrative retirement. Exceptional agents who can play politicians off against each other get a shot at multi-million dollar paydays by setting themselves up as contractors holding down office chairs (spying at arms length so to speak).

[No Elephants]

17. So, no President Jeb, huh? You're gonna make Poopy, er, Poppy, cry again.

[UpInArms]

4. several instances where the executive branch may have violated the requirements

that are in the National Security Act

can you give a time frame on that?

oh, from Jan 21 2001 to Jan 21 2009?

hmmm....

[gratuitous]

5. But, but, but . . .

The Democrats saw the same intelligence! They voted to authorize the war, too! It's all the Democrats' fault! Nanny nanny boo boo.

[Bitwit1234]

6. So are the republicans going to apologize

to Nancy Pelosi when she said they misled her. And I am sure they did.

[Lasher]

7. OK so just what exactly are they going to do about it?

I know, refer it to some black hole committee for further study for a few decades.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. And this is supposed to be some kind of fucking surprise because????!!! nt

[jtrockville]

9. Yes... yes.... we know... we know....

[winyanstaz]

10. So if an agency is so out of bounds to do this.....

why is it not de funded and disbanded already?

and...“We’re in the process of reviewing several instances where the executive branch may have violated the requirements that are in the National Security Act.” should be enough to make people cry for an investigation at the very least.
Where and who is the "sheriff" when these agencies break the law? Who the hell is in charge to protect America?

[rschop]

11. The CIA misled the US Congress?

“The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday.”


SAY WHAT?

How about the fact that the CIA deliberately and intentionally allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11 to hide their culpability in the attack on the USS Cole, and then lied to Congress and the Joint Inquiry Committee about their role in allowing these attacks to take place. There is now even iron clad proof of the CIA culpability in allowing these attacks on 9/11 to take place.

This information is so wildly known in Washington DC that it now has to be all but an open secret in both the US Congress and in fact in all of Washington DC.

[Festivito]

12. It's at times like this one visits with a judge and a jury.

Not for a beer.

[defendandprotect]

13. 5X???? Probably more like 500,000 X . . . !!!

[Vidar]

14. The shadow government's slip is showing.

[Kaleko]

15. A dry laugh and a rec combo.

[No Elephants]

18. The CIA MAY have been responsible for deceiving America thousands of times. Now what?

[TomPaine76]

19. Did ideologues in Bush intel apparatus spy on whistleblowers?

The House and Senate oversight committees could get the public involved more viscerally by investigating that.

[IndianaGreen]

20. It is time to disband CIA, a fossil from 1947 Cold War

replace it with a new agency whose sole job is intelligence gathering and analysis.

[TomPaine76]

21. How to break ideologue-based cliques tho?

Any new agency will still be subject to career civil servant rules. It's the Bush holdovers now that are causing much of the fuss about revealing sources and methods.