New York Times — Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress for Years
It’s on now. In an effort to placate the Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee after his refusal to provide cover for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tall tales about her post 9/11 CIA briefings, agency director Leon Panetta tried to make common cause by bashing the Bush administration. Now the Democrats are publicizing his remarks and saying that they validate the speaker’s claim that she not only didn’t know about “enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding, but that her assertion that the CIA “routinely misleads” Congress is true.
Writer Scott Shane explains that Democratic lawmakers have released two letters – one to Panetta recapping his testimony that “mis[leading] members” and “deceptions” were common under Bush” and another to the committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Pete Hoekstra saying that the intelligence committee “has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one occasion) was affirmatively lied to.”
