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To: bentway who wrote (523938)	10/27/2009 4:16:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578683

>>> The Gallup organization is owned and run by a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalist Christians like Ten. I don't know if it is true but wtf does it have to do with the polls, which are generally regarded as the best available anywhere?

To: bentway who wrote (523938)	10/27/2009 6:14:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578683

" I think Gallup is made up of a bunch of wingers using a Ouija board to come up with their poll #s." The Gallup organization is owned and run by a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalist Christians like Ten. Makes sense.....their polls are consistently the lowest for Obama along with Rasmussen, another conservative pollster.

To: bentway who wrote (523938)	10/27/2009 6:22:17 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578683

CIA misled Congress five times since 2001, say Intel Dems By Jared Allen - 10/27/09 04:22 PM ET The CIA misled Congress at least five times since 2001, according to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. The Democrats said CIA officials had either lied or withheld information from Congress. They also said CIA officials did not fully inform Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques during a September 2002 briefing, which would validate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) claim that she was lied to about the program. The ongoing probe found the practice of incomplete briefings or outright lying was part of a “large disease” of misinforming even the chairmen of the select intelligence committees, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said at a Tuesday press briefing that highlighted the early findings. Schakowsky and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading two subcommittees investigating the legitimacy of intelligence briefings to Congress. Pelosi came under fire after she said at a testy press conference in May that the C.I.A. had lied to her and other members during a 2002 briefing about its use of waterboarding on detainees. Pelosi was the ranking member of the Intelligence panel at the time. “We were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” she said at the May press conference. “They [the C.I.A.] misled us all the time.” Republicans demanded proof from Pelosi of CIA lies, and the Speaker was also criticized for not objecting to waterboarding when she first learned about it. Pelosi did not have an immediate reaction to the findings of two senior House Democrats. In June, CIA Director Leon Panetta alerted the House Intelligence Committee about a top-secret program to assassinate top al Qaeda operatives that previously had not been disclosed to Congress. Later reports indicated that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the CIA not to notify Congress of the program. Panetta’s revelation appeared to bolster Pelosi’s statement from May, and Schakowsky and Eshoo identified “Director Panetta’s June 24 notification” as one of the five instances linked to a complete communication breakdown between the intelligence community and Congress. “It is the policy of the Central Intelligence Agency to be clear and candid with the United States Congress,” CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in response to a request for comment. “Director Panetta has made a relationship of trust, confidence, and respect a top priority.” At least one of the CIA’s obfuscations was already known. A 2008 C.I.A. Inspector Generals report determined that the agency withheld information from Congress relating to the shooting down of a plane carrying missionaries over Peru in 2001. In addition, the C.I.A. withheld information or lied about the 2005 destruction of videotapes recording the interrogation of al Qaeda operatives by intelligence officials, Eshoo and Schakowsky said. They also said the agency had withheld information or lied during a September 2002 briefing of the so-called “Gang of Eight” in Congress on the enhanced interrogation of terrorism suspects. thehill.com