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Lying to Congress
Congressional Quarterly reports:
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House Intelligence Committee [on June 24] that the agency had misled and “concealed significant actions from all members of Congress” dating back to 2001 and continuing until late June, according to a letter from seven Democrats on the panel.
Continuing until late June? As in, two weeks ago? As in, right up to the time that Panetta testified before the committee?
Wow. You'd think even Republicans might be a wee bit upset about this. But no. You see, a couple of months ago Nancy Pelosi said the CIA misled her about waterboarding, and if Republicans admit the CIA has lied to Congress it might hinder their efforts to attack her:
House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes , D-Texas, this week sent to the panel’s top Republican, Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, a letter saying new information led him to conclude that the CIA has misled and at least once “affirmatively lied to” the committee. Republicans disputed its contents and have said that the Democrats were trying to protect Pelosi.
....Republicans said it was true, as Reyes wrote in his letter, that the classified subject about which the committee was notified was a subject of bipartisan concern. But they did not endorse Reyes’ conclusions that the CIA had lied....[Hoekstra] said Democrats wanted to help validate Pelosi’s prior claims by establishing other occasions in which the CIA may have misled Congress.
....Reyes expressed surprise at the Republicans’ remarks about whether the controversy was legitimate and whether Democrats were trying to protect their leader, saying simply, “They know better.”
Sure, they know better. But what's that compared to the opportunity to keep a minor partisan squabble alive?
Duh . . .
Has everyone forgotten that good ol' W and Cheney lied so much, it was no secret by the end of their administration. It is probably the only thing this administration excelled at beyond every one's expectations.
Wow. Lying up until two
Wow. Lying up until two weeks ago. Do you understand who looks really bad in all of this Kevin?
Wow. So the CIA admits that
Wow. So the CIA admits that it's been lying, and Republicans are going to ignore that fact because they'd rather beat up on Pelosi over the whole torture busniess, because if they recognize the fact that the CIA lied, then it could be that the CIA mislead or lied to Pelosi, putting her in the clear. And they don't even want to beat up on Pelosi because, you know, torture is BAD, but because they want to prove that some Dems were in on and approved of Bush's torturing ways, that it wasn't just Republicans. It's shit like this that makes me seriously consider a job in Europe after I finish grad school...
I just ask myself...
What would Jim DeMint say about this? That's all I need to know about most anything.
Between publications on
Between publications on useless spending by the military, consideration of Palin as a presidential candidate, never ending turf wars between different government agencies, a Congress that seems incapable of voting for anything without pork in it and this I'm beginning to believe that the United States continues on in spite of its government not because of it.
Abolish the CIA
Time is right to ABOLISH the CIA and start from scratch.
Recover billions and billions of hidden dollars.
Hire back the best and the brightest under a more accountable service, loosely
based on MI-5/MI-6.
Drastically reduce DHS, cut redundant departments, place tighter controls and
accountability to FBI, ICE, etc.
Cancel all contracts to private mercenaries, permanently; pass a bill outlawing any
funding of mercenary activities.
Finally, in honor of RS McNamara, Cut funding to Pentagon by 90%, forcing them to
"find" the hidden/misplaced billions in taxpayer money.
Taxpayers need to revolt against these and all abusers of our tax dollars. Our work
is cut out for us, as seemingly hopeless and sisyphean as it seems.