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Published on Friday, July 17, 2009 by the Associated Press
House Intel Committee to Investigate CIA Program
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not telling Congress earlier about a secret program to deploy hit teams to kill individual al-Qaida members.
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the committee about the program on June 24, a day after he first learned of the program and canceled it himself.
Law requires that the House and Senate intelligence committees be kept informed of significant intelligence activities or anticipated activities. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., announced the investigation in a statement Friday.
© 2009 Associated Press
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Show AllWell, hooopee doo! The House (broken) Intelligence (in the House?) Committee (we know what committees accomplish, don't we?) is going to i-n-v-e-s-t-i-g-a-t-e the CIA. I'm sure the CIA is shaking in its' boots.
I'll tell you what. Mr. Chairman. If you suspend ALL PAY in the form of wages, slush funds for drug activities and gun running and government (foreign and domestic) bribes by the directorate of operations until someone tells WITH PROOF (tapes, documents, NAMES, dates, etc.) WTF went down in the CIA for the past 8 years, THEN we MIGHT think you aren't a bought and paid for cowardly scum.
Time to disband and eradicate the CIA.
It was going to be done after WWII. It was going to be done after the Cold War. After whatever Chaney did to-it and with-it, it has been compromised. Time to deal with a new clean USA!
“One step the Pentagon took was to seek active and secret help in the war against the Iraqi insurgency from Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East. According to American and Israeli military and intelligence officials, Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in Israel to help them prepare for operations in Iraq.” (Democracy Now)
According to historian Christopher Andrew, under questioning by New York Times reporters and editors in 1975, President Gerald Ford explained that U.S. intelligence documents must not be revealed to the public because the revelations would “blacken the reputation of every President since Truman.”
“Like what?” he was asked.
“Like assassinations!” replied Ford, who later insisted the comment be kept “off the record.”
The discussion was held following Ford’s recent receipt of the CIA inspector general’s now-infamous report informally known as the “Family Jewels.” It revealed hundreds of CIA indiscretions ranging from experimenting on soldiers and prisoners with illegal, hallucinogenic drugs to assassination plots against South American leftists.
House Intel Committee to Whitewash CIA Program