washingtonpost.com - 11/21/2008
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The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal CIA probe released today by congressional officials.
rawstory.com - 11/25/2008
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President George W. Bush's Labor Department misled Congress
in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private...
companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report ...
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... An internal CIA probe found that the CIA misled Congress and the Justice Department during their 2001 investigation into a shot-down Peruvian plane. The incident occurred in April 2001 when a Peruvian pilot working with the CIA mistakenly opened fire on a small plane suspected of carrying narcotics traffickers, which in reality was carrying U.S. missionaries. The inspector general found that the CIA often ignored rules of engagement in Peru and officials gave false statements to cover up their actions. The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, ...
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