time.com - 7/13/2009
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta
newsweek.com - 7/9/2009
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newsweek.com —
CIA director Leon Panetta has ordered an internal
inquiry into the agency's handling of a contentious, but...
still highly-classified intelligence collection program. The move appears to be an acknowledgement that the CIA should have disclosed ...
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Newsweek: Panetta orders internal CIA probe
cqpolitics.com - 7/9/2009
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cqpolitics.com —
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House Intelligence
Committee that the agency had misled and “concealed significant...
actions from all members of Congress” dating back to 2001 and continuing until late June, according to a letter from seven Democrats ...
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Panetta Admits CIA Misled Congress on “Significant Actions”
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/13/2009
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We've gotten some more information in recent days
about that secret CIA program that the agency withheld...
key information from Congress about, and that CIA director Leon Panetta promptly shut down when he learned about it last month. But the new ...
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New Info Brings More Questions On Secret CIA Program
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Why did Panetta act so swiftly? From Time: (emp add) Did the CIA deliberately keep its own director in the dark about a secret program? The latest storm to break over Langley emerged after the New York Times reported over the weekend that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered that the program be kept from Congress's oversight committees. Apparently, CIA Director Leon Panetta was told of the program's existence on June 23, four months after he took over the agency. Within 24 hours, he had canceled it and briefed the ...
Chris Weigant: Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem
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... the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, just heard about a program which reported directly to the office of Dick Cheney, and had not been briefed to Congress. Panetta, if the timelines are to be believed, found out about the program a few weeks ago, immediately shut it down, and then briefed Congress the next day. This is all well and good, but raises a very important question (actually, it raises a whole flood of questions), which is mostly being ignored (except for this article on Time magazine's website) -- why was Panetta kept in the dark for four ...
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Source: Cheney kept CIA program from Congress —
CNN.com - Politics 7/12/2009
The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress during the Bush administration on direct orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, current CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress, a knowledgeable source ...
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