Washington Post — Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
House members looking to back up Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the CIA routinely misleads Congress, but not back it up so much that there has to be an investigation, are plunging ahead with publicizing a secret plan for intelligence gathering that was never put into action. The goal is to show that even if there aren’t the sins of commission alleged by the speaker, there was at least a sin of omission. CIA Director Leon Panetta informed Democrats of the plan three weeks ago, but it’s taken that long for Democrats to realize how indignant they really were.
Writers Paul Kane and Ben Pershing explain how Republicans who knew about the plan were unconcerned and didn’t think it needed to be explained to Congress while Democrats are using the omission as another reason for a truth commission.
