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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on July 13, 2009, 02:42:23 PM
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Congress originally authorized the CIA to develop the secret counterterrorism program that is now drawing fierce criticism from House Democrats who say they were kept in the dark all along, a former senior intelligence official told FOX News on Monday.
The program, which sources told FOX News was a plan to capture or kill Al Qaeda operatives, also never came close to being operational, the intelligence official said.
"This was not a program. It never began," the former official said. "The authority was given by Congress to develop this idea. ... There was no need to brief it. It wasn't a reality."
Democrats want an investigation into the program, particularly following reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney was the one who ordered it kept secret.
Another official told The Associated Press that while Congress was aware of the program, CIA Director Leon Panetta recently told lawmakers that according to notes he had been given Cheney directed the CIA not to tell Congress specifics of the secret program.
Panetta told the committees there was no indication of anything illegal or inappropriate about the effort itself, the official said.
But after Panetta told congressional lawmakers that he canceled the program, House Democrats also called on the CIA director to retract his statement that the CIA does not mislead Congress. Panetta made that statement after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed the CIA lied to Congress.
The former intelligence official suggested House Democrats made the demand for the sake of providing Pelosi political cover.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/13/cia-secret-al-qaeda-plan/?test=latestnews
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Looks like someone at Langley doesn't like being thrown under the bus.
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Looks like someone at Langley doesn't like being thrown under the bus.
But will the lefty media pick up on it? *crickets*
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This whole thing is shaping up to make Panetta look like he doesn't know what the Hell he's doing...which is probably pretty accurate.
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This whole thing is shaping up to make Panetta look like he doesn't know what the Hell he's doing...which is probably pretty accurate.
Did anyone here think that Panetta was qualified to head the CIA?
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Did anyone here think that Panetta was qualified to head the CIA?
Anyone here? Probably only the moonbat lurkers like TNO or flyonthewindshield, or Ronbots like DULurker.
Inside the asylum known as Teh Beltway? He's the smartest thing since Teh MessiahnFuhrer.
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Did anyone here think that Panetta was qualified to head the CIA?
Buehler...? Buehler...?
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Wasn't the CIA director who was in power when those briefings taking place a CLINTON appointee?
What is truly sad, is that CIA analysts are going to be MORE likely to provide analysis which paints a rosy picture for OH-BUMMER instead of a realistic one so that OH-BUMMER and the dims/libs can bury their collective heads either where the sun never shines or in the sand. When that plays out, we're all going to be in deep shit!
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Wasn't the CIA director who was in power when those briefings taking place a CLINTON appointee?
What is truly sad, is that CIA analysts are going to be MORE likely to provide analysis which paints a rosy picture for OH-BUMMER instead of a realistic one so that OH-BUMMER and the dims/libs can bury their collective heads either where the sun never shines or in the sand. When that plays out, we're all going to be in deep shit!
That is unfortunately part of the price of him screwing up enough to piss off everyone, it inevitably is going to involve avoidable American bloodshed in addition to the economic chaos he'll cause on the way there.