Panetta Defends CIA Briefing

Democrats: CIA is out to get us (Politico)
politico.com 5/12/2009 — Politico - Dems charge that the CIA has released documents on congressional briefings on waterboarding in order to deflect blame.

Scarborough Comes Up With A New Spin On Torture Testimony
crooksandliars.com 5/15/2009 — You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! ...

Trust No One
justoneminute.typepad.com 5/15/2009 — The Times is tough on Nancy Pelosi's explanation that everyone else is lying about the CIA enhanced interrogation briefings. They also get some thoughts from the previously silent Senator Shelby (R). The too-cute statement from Porter Goss, who ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Demand an Investigation
townhall.com 5/15/2009 — Given Speaker Pelosi's remarkable accusations of being misled both by the CIA and the Bush administration, it strikes me that a full investigation is in order. And that includes full disclosure of the kind of...

Panetta warns against politicization
politico.com 5/19/2009 — The CIA director speaks out against making his agency a pawn in the nation’s partisan political battles.

The GOP Argument(s) for Torture — Booman Tribune

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CIA's Panetta Weighs In — The Page by Mark Halperin

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Press Playing Dumb — Eschaton

Panetta enters debate over agency truthfulness (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 5/15/2009
AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency records show CIA officers briefed lawmakers truthfully in 2002 on methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, but it is up to Congress to reach its own conclusions about what happened.