Panetta Orders Probe of Secret Spy Program »
Posted By bluetexasvalley 4 months ago in Political NewsCIA Director Leon Panetta has ordered an internal inquiry into the agency's handling of a contentious and still highly classified intelligence program that has caused a heated dispute between the CIA and Democrats on the House intelligence committee. The move by Panetta appears to be an implicit acknowledgment by the agency that it should have disclosed information about the post-9/11 secret program to Congress much earlier than it did.
Read Full Story at newsweek.com »
810 Views Share Story 24 Comments Report
Submitted By:
bluetexasvalley
I am a 60-plus widow, retired after almost 40 years in the newspaper business. My love of politics was learned, first, from my father, a ...
RSS Join the Discussion
+ Add CommentComments So Far: 24 (view all)
-
100%
bluetexasvalley4 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
FTA:
Reply
The internal CIA probe was described by an official with first-hand knowledge as a review by a senior agency officer--rather than a formal investigation by the inspector general's office. The senior officer is not connected with the National Clandestine Service, the CIA branch whose actions are under scrutiny, according to the official who is familiar with the inquiry.
CIA and congressional officials have refused to describe the nature of the covert program, but insisted it is not connected to the CIA's use of controversial "enhanced" interrogation techniques. But the program's existence erupted into a major political dispute Wednesday night when seven Democrats on the House intelligence committee released a letter charging that the agency had "concealed significant actions" and "misled" members of Congress by failing to inform the oversight committees about the program until last month. The Democrats demanded that Panetta "publicly correct" his statement of May 15 declaring that "it is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress." -
-
94%
Goppy4 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Why in the world would anyone expect that a covert agency WOULDN'T lie to Congress?
Reply
.
.
The CIA is a Lie Factory for whoever is in the Oval Office ... should they decide to use it for that purpose.
Dick Cheney was one of those people.
.-
100%
hyperbola3 months, 4 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
It may be worse than that. There have long been indications that there are rogue elements in the CIA who put their "ideological loyalty" above all else. Cheney will certainly still have some of his own "rogues" in place.
Reply
I begin to wonder if the involvement of our CIA/military in fomenting the recent "color revolution" attempts in Iran and Honduras are not rogue elements continuing the priorities of a previous administration to try to force the Obama administration into adopting "hard-line" policies.
Not unlike the ploy played by similar elements in the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco on another new president at least promising change.
-
-
-
-
-
100%
hyperbola3 months, 4 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
To us. However, the "information" may well be used by those "in the know" for political blackmail in the future.
Reply
We would never have gotten back a corrupt failure like Robert Gates (in both the Bush and Obama) administrations if his roles in corrupting the CIA during the Reagan administration and in Iran-Contra had been made fully public at the time.
All of our various administrations ever since Reagan (and including Obama) have been increasingly blatant in their supposition that the American people are too dumb and docile to ever be told what is really going on in their government.
-
-
-
0%
rbiii3 months, 4 weeks ago
-
-
-
80%
Jeboba3 months, 4 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Prove that! You are a liar. It is EVERYTHING about the lies Pelosi was talking about! Panetta said he'd look into it and he found a stinking rotten subversive program that is so bad that no one can talk about it.
Reply
Conjecture is it was an assasination operation run by Cheney! Probably dead on. -
-
-
-
-
80%
jovial3 months, 4 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
The CIA has been lying to Congress for decades. More recently, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking minority member of the House intelligence committee, documented the dissembling of the CIA to cover-up the Agency's involvement in a drug interdiction program in Peru that led to the loss of innocent lives. Hoekstra accused CIA director Tenet with misleading the Congress.
Reply
The CIA still has not addressed the serious procedural and institutional problems that were exposed in a report from the Office of the Inspector General on the Peru program, which concluded that Agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House, and the Justice Department. So it's not just Democrats being lied to.
There's been a long list of lies and omissions of crucial information to the Congress from the CIA. What's absurd is that they are required by law to keep the Congress accurately informed. What we the people are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. -
100%
DarkWizard3 months, 4 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
After seeing the softer tone used in the latter part of this article I seriously doubt that much will come of this. Especially, if the Obama administration is taking a position of protecting secrecy over the transparency he espoused during his campaign.
Reply
Add a Comment
Sign In With Your Propeller Account
Please keep your comments relevant to this story.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.