CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges

From Spytalk/CQ Politics:

A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency's congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers.

"They mumble, they dissemble, and there's a lot of 'on the one hand . . .'" said the retired official, who spent 25 years as a CIA operations officer but now writes blistering, unauthorized critiques of the spy agency using the pen name "Ishmael Jones."

Jones denounced claims by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the CIA kept her in the dark about water-boarding terrorist suspects, saying the California Democrat "has been using the interrogation issue as a political tool for years."

But he said the spy agency's congressional briefers are also experts at camouflaging classified programs.

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My Comment: The leaker from the CIA wants to remain anonymous .... which is unfortunate because there is no way to verify his claims.