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“I do not believe the CIA lied to Congress,” Boehner said. “I don’t think this changes anything about the speaker’s actions.”
Congressman Boner, the CIA knows exactly how to lie, how to spread disinformation. The problem is that they aren't supposed to lie to our government. It's now obvious to everyone but the Bonehead that information was kept from congress violating the law. Boner will refuse to believe it, but that's simply because he can't admit that he might be wrong.
The information that Panetta told the members of congress regarding a program that he shut down after being made aware of it (remember he's been in the Directors chair, for about 5 months and is still being brought up to speed on what is going on at CIA) stunned all the members, Democrats and Republicans alike. Obviously they didn't know about this before hand, so it's clear that the CIA has been withholding information. Apparently the program is worse than the torture program.
Sy Hersch wrote and talked about a secret program that reported directly to Cheney's office. It was an assassination program. This could be it. Hersch has a habit of being correct on these things. Whatever it is, it seems to have caught the attention of some members of congress.
The briefing of the Gang of 8 (Senate and House committee members) is the most absurd method imaginable. Instead of having all the members of the House, and the Senate in the same room at the same time, all getting the same information, each member is briefed separately and not permitted to take notes. They are given a cursory briefing. They cannot discuss the briefing with other members. The question arises as to how anybody knows what exactly was told to one of the other members. Did they all get the same exact briefing? How does anybody know? Why is it done this way? It's completely inefficient and opens itself to conflicting views on what was said. One person can claim, " I was told this", while another can say, " I was told that". This is how our people are briefed?
The members of congress want to expand the number of committee members that are to be briefed. The Obama White House is resisting that. This is hardly the transparency that the president has called for. Obviously there are secret activities that shouldn't be open to the public. However there is certainly a middle ground that can be arrived at that satisfies the need for oversight that is far better than what we have now.
The CIA must have oversight. Without it we have a rogue agency with enormous capability for doing things that are extremely dangerous.
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