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To: bentway who wrote (493721)	7/9/2009 9:30:43 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

A letter released late Wednesday by six Democratic House members claims that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta testified that "top CIA officials have concealed significant actions… and misled" members of Congress since 2001 — a claim the CIA is contesting. So let me get this straight. Six Ds claim the CIA director admitted misleading Congress. Then the CIA director said, "No, I didn't say that"? Is that about right? And only Ds are making this allegation? These people are idiots for restarting this battle they've already lost once.

To: bentway who wrote (493721)	7/9/2009 12:02:17 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577883

DOUBLE STANDARD "The last time the CIA and Nancy Pelosi were in the news together, the House speaker was accusing the agency of lying about its briefings to Congress on the interrogation of al Qaeda detainees. This week, the speaker's fellow Democrats are set to block public disclosure of what Mrs. Pelosi was really told and when," the Wall Street Journal said in an editorial. "Democrats recently marked up the 2010 intelligence bill, and Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra offered an amendment in committee to require the CIA to make public an unclassified version of its records on congressional briefings. It also would have required the CIA to disclose the information gleaned from those interrogations," the newspaper said. "Democrats have spent years demanding a 'truth commission' into interrogations, so you'd think such public disclosure would be welcome. Ah, that was when a different guy was in the White House and before Mrs. Pelosi had made her own veracity an issue. Suddenly, she's all for secrecy. And sure enough, Intelligence Committee Democrats lined up to protect their leader and defeated the Hoekstra amendment on a party-line vote. This follows Democratic rejection of a resolution by Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop to initiate a bipartisan investigation of Mrs. Pelosi's accusation. CIA employees weren't so lucky. Chairman Silvestre Reyes' Intelligence Committee Democrats passed a new requirement that the CIA videotape all detainee interrogations. This is a sop to the anti-antiterror left, which wants heads to roll because the CIA destroyed tapes of the interrogations of the likes of terrorist Abu Zubaydah. CIA clandestine chief Jose Rodriguez ordered those tapes destroyed precisely because he worried they might leak and compromise U.S. methods. Republicans offered an amendment to strip the videotape provision but lost on another partisan vote. "This fits the Pelosi policy that the wartime decisions of CIA agents can and will be second-guessed years later, but congressional acquiescence in those decisions is off-limits."