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CIA Program Too Good to Be True?
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... committee Democrats in both chambers of Congress are flipping out over a program that was, we are told, appealing, uncontroversial and non-existent.
Either that, or Dick Cheney has friends in the leak business.
Could this program be the fabled Cheney hit squad Seymour Hersh once alluded to?
As with all secret programs, we are left guessing at shadows, wondering what our government has done in our name.
Related: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells NPR Cheney never told him to keep details from Congress. ...
CIA Program Too Good to Be True?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... Seymour Hersh once alluded to? As with all secret programs, we are left guessing at shadows, wondering what our government has done in our name. Related: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells NPR that Cheney never told him to keep details from Congress. ...
Re: The "Cheney" Scandal -- Gen. Hayden Destroys It
The Corner on National Review Online —
... today on the Democrats' effort to trump a scandal up from the perfectly obvious fact that the CIA has been brainstorming about how to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and other top Qaeda figures. What I didn't know while I was writing the column is that the story has already been mortally undermined by General Michael Hayden, the former CIA director. Gen. Hayden has explained to NPR that while he led the agency (for two years from 2006 through the end of the Bush administration) neither Vice President Cheney nor anyone else directed him not to brief Congress about the ...
Democrats to investigate “secret” program reported by NYT in 2002
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . Update (AP): Yeah, this was linked in Headlines earlier, but it deserves the wider exposure of the front page for two reasons. One because it shows how disingenuous the Democrats are in trying to manufacture a scandal here to rehabilitate Pelosi and distract from The One’s unstimulated economy. And two because it’s even a bit worse than Karl suggests. Not only is the program old news, but former CIA chief Michael Hayden told NPR today that neither Cheney nor anyone else told him not to brief Congress about it. And two other former intel officials ...
