Liberty Star
07-09-2009, 09:51 PM
It can't be waterboarding, that was not a secret. What could it be that they felt the need to hide even from Congressional Intelligence Committee?
Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
Democrats Accuse Agency of Pattern of Withholding Information From Lawmakers
By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 10, 2009
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 meeting 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.
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:29 PM
Eshoo calls for probe of covert CIA program
Says eight-year-old program was never disclosed to Congress
by Chris Kenrick
Palo Alto Online Staff
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, Thursday called for an investigation of a covert CIA program that she said ran from 2001 to June 2009 without Congressional knowledge.
CIA Director Leon Panetta informed the House Intelligence Committee June 24 that he had just learned of the eight-year-old secret program, which had never been disclosed to Congress, Eshoo said. Panetta told the committee that he ordered an end to the program as soon as he heard about it, she said.
Eshoo, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, said the program is "highly classified" and declined to disclose any details about it.
"The committee was actually stunned," Eshoo told Joe Scarborough, host of the "Morning Joe" program on MSNBC.
Eshoo's remarks followed her release Wednesday of a June 26 letter she wrote Panetta asking him to "publicly correct" his May 15 statement that "it is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and values." The letter was cosigned by six of Eshoo's 12 Democratic colleagues on the Intelligence Committee.
Failure to disclose the secret program, Eshoo said, "flies in the face of that in a very, very serious way. They simply do not want to acknowledge that the Congress was not fully informed. And they have an obligation under the National Security Act of 1947 in a timely way to inform Congress. So this is as serious as it gets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070903017.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=13011
Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
Democrats Accuse Agency of Pattern of Withholding Information From Lawmakers
By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 10, 2009
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 meeting 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.
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:29 PM
Eshoo calls for probe of covert CIA program
Says eight-year-old program was never disclosed to Congress
by Chris Kenrick
Palo Alto Online Staff
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, Thursday called for an investigation of a covert CIA program that she said ran from 2001 to June 2009 without Congressional knowledge.
CIA Director Leon Panetta informed the House Intelligence Committee June 24 that he had just learned of the eight-year-old secret program, which had never been disclosed to Congress, Eshoo said. Panetta told the committee that he ordered an end to the program as soon as he heard about it, she said.
Eshoo, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, said the program is "highly classified" and declined to disclose any details about it.
"The committee was actually stunned," Eshoo told Joe Scarborough, host of the "Morning Joe" program on MSNBC.
Eshoo's remarks followed her release Wednesday of a June 26 letter she wrote Panetta asking him to "publicly correct" his May 15 statement that "it is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and values." The letter was cosigned by six of Eshoo's 12 Democratic colleagues on the Intelligence Committee.
Failure to disclose the secret program, Eshoo said, "flies in the face of that in a very, very serious way. They simply do not want to acknowledge that the Congress was not fully informed. And they have an obligation under the National Security Act of 1947 in a timely way to inform Congress. So this is as serious as it gets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070903017.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=13011