Pete Hoekstra accuses CIA of cover-up , withholding information

[pkdu]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/20/cia.coverup.charge/index.html


...oh , but that was so "2008".

I dont know which makes me more angry - this hypocritical asshole or CNN et al for not calling "bullshit" whenever he opens his mouth.

[dgibby]

1. I hope you send this to CNN!

[pkdu]

3. Just did...thanks for the suggestion. n/t

[TwilightZone]

2. So, six months ago, he had the same opinion of them that most of us do.

Now, they never lie.

Nice.

[creeksneakers2]

4. Also from Hoekstra

Hoekstra has gone way further than that. Why aren't the destroyed CIA torture/interrogation tapes mentioned? On that subject, Hoekstra accused the CIA of lying about briefing him. I don't know why nobody brings this up.

NY Times 12/07/07

In his statement, General Hayden said leaders of Congressional oversight committees had been fully briefed about the existence of the tapes and told in advance of the decision to destroy them. But the two top members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2005 said Thursday that they had not been notified in advance of the decision to destroy the tapes.

A spokesman for Representative Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, who was the committee’s chairman between 2004 and 2006, said that Mr. Hoekstra was “never briefed or advised that these tapes existed, or that they were going to be destroyed.”

The spokesman, Jamal Ware, also said that Mr. Hoekstra “absolutely believes that the full committee should have been informed and consulted before the C.I.A. did anything with the tapes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/washington/07intel.html?_r=1

Hoekstra and others are making the case that its outrageous to say the CIA lied. But in Hoekstra's case, he did the same thing, and on the same subject of receiving briefings, with briefings related to torture.

And how can the GOP claim that the CIA is so honest about what occurred concerning torture, when we know the CIA destroyed the interrogation tapes? We also know those tapes were requested by the 9/11 Commission and weren't provided.

So the CIA lied and the GOP called them liars. Why the different standards now?