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To: LindyBill who wrote (305279)	5/15/2009 4:37:12 PM
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What will Panetta Do? Panetta Defends CIA Briefing Pelosi Claims Intelligence Officials Failed to Reveal Waterboarding Was Used; Spy Agency Denies Misleading Congress online.wsj.com By SIOBHAN GORMAN Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta defended his agency Friday against charges from congressional Democrats that the agency misled lawmakers in a 2002 briefing on interrogations. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said at a press conference Thursday that Congress was misled by the CIA in regards to questions about waterboarding. Video courtesy of Fox News. "CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah," Mr. Panetta wrote in a memo to agency employees referring to an alleged senior al Qaeda detainee in CIA custody at the time. "It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values." He was responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charges on Thursday that CIA officials was "misleading" her at the Sept. 4, 2002 briefing. She said the CIA told her that the administration had determined that the practice of waterboarding, or simulated drowning, was legal but hadn't yet been used. The CIA had at that time had already used waterboarding on Mr. Zubaydah 83 times in the previous month. More In his memo, Mr. Panetta wrote that "the political debates about interrogation reached a new decibel level yesterday when the CIA was accused of misleading Congress." The CIA last week released a document detailing its briefings of members of Congress on the interrogation techniques. Mr. Panetta said the agency compiled the document -- based on the files and meeting summaries written at the time that represented the best recollections of the briefers -- in response to requests from lawmakers. The CIA document describes the briefing as covering "enhanced interrogation techniques." It included the use of the techniques on detainee Abu Zubaydah, background on legal authority, and "a description of the particular EIT's that had been employed." In a letter accompanying the document, Mr. Panetta says the information came from CIA files and the "best recollections" of the individuals who provided the briefings. "In the end, you and the Committee will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened," Mr. Panetta wrote. He reiterated that point in his memo to employees Friday

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