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thehill.com - 10/27/2009
Dems: CIA may have misled Congress five times since 2001
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The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading an ongoing investigation into what they described as a practice of ...
cnas.org - 10/28/2009
The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
— cnas.org — Why, you ask? Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai... at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying ... (more) The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read ...

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Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
librarygrape.com - 10/26/2009
Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
— librarygrape.com — This was done in all of our names and we should all, individually, be deeply and profoundly... ashamed: We were receiving CIA intelligence. MI-6 and the CIA share all their intelligence. So I was getting all the CIA intelligence on Uzbekistan and it was saying that detainees had confessed to ... (more) Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported ...

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Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/28/2009
Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — The CIA misled Congress about its torture program and other issues, the House Intelligence committee has concluded... . In a hearing of the House Intelligence committee this afternoon, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, both Democrats, pointed to ... (more) Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues

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Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
TPMMuckraker — The CIA misled Congress about its torture program and other issues, the House Intelligence committee has concluded. In a hearing of the House Intelligence committee this afternoon, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, both Democrats, pointed to at least five instances going back to at least 2001 in which the C.I.A. withheld information from or lied to Congress. Schakowsky said that a committee probe had found that the CIA is afflicted by a "large disease" of misleading and even lying to lawmakers about intelligence activities. Earlier this year, ...

CIA Lied to Congress at least Five Times Since 2001
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — From The Hill: The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) are leading an ongoing investigation into what they described as a practice of incomplete and often misleading intelligence briefings, which arose in the wake of CIA Director Leon Panetta's June 24 admission that intelligence officials failed to notify Congress about a top-secret program to assassinate al Qaeda leaders. ...

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