From The Washington Post:Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the initiative and schedule a pair of closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill.
The next day, June 24, Panetta informed the House and Senate intelligence committees of the program and the action he had taken, according to Democratic and Republican members of the panels.
The incident has reignited a long-running dispute between congressional Democrats and the CIA, with some calling it part of a broader pattern of the agency withholding information from Congress. Some Republicans, meanwhile, privately questioned whether Panetta -- who has stood with CIA officers in a dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- was looking to score points with House Democrats.
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My Comment: An "off again, on again" program, that was never used as a major tool against Al Qaeda, is now at the center of this storm?
Please .....
It appears that if Congress is not informed on how many rolls of toilet paper that the CIA complex at Langley is using, this becomes more evidence that the CIA is holding back information from Congress.
We all know that this "controversy" is to just give cover to House Speaker Pelosi who accused the CIA of lying to her, and then not following up on an investigation .... which she have been done since she had just attacked the integrity and reliability of the CIA.
CIA Director's Panetta involvement in this sordid affair is also unfortunate. From where I am standing, this is just an attempt (and a poor one at that) to get back into the good graces of major Democratic politicians. I had voiced in the past that his nomination to the Director's post of the CIA would only politicized the organization .... he is fulfilling this prophecy beautifully.
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