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July 13, 2009
Democrats Trying To Protect Pelosi's Lies Go After Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney kept Congress in dark over CIA counterterrorism action
Intelligence officials reveal former US vice president ordered hushing up of plan
The former US vice president Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress about a counterterrorism programme that the CIA director, Leon Panetta, ended last month, according to revelations by US intelligence officials.
The programme, the nature of which is not known, was set up eight years ago after the 9/11 attacks, reported the New York Times, citing a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panetta's briefing to the House and Senate intelligence committees on 24 June.
Upon learning of the programme a day earlier from within the CIA, Panetta terminated it and called an emergency meeting with the committees the following day. He told them the programme had existed but had now been cancelled.
Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance programme. Last week, an inspectors' general report noted that Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, personally decided who in Bush's inner circle could know about the secret initiative.
Revelations about Cheney's role in making decisions for the CIA on whether or not to notify Congress came as a surprise to some on the committees, said another government official who, like the other sources, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the issue in public.
The nature of the counterterrorism plan remains a mystery. The former intelligence official said it was not related to the CIA's rendition, interrogation and detention programme. Nor was it part of a wider classified electronic surveillance programme.
The official characterised it as an embryonic intelligence-gathering effort, that was only sporadically active. He said it was set up to yield information that would be used to conduct a secret mission or missions in another country, but it never matured to that point.
The two sources said Congress had not been briefed about other CIA activities.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Now Panetta and Democrats in an effort to protect liar liar Nancy pants are on fire want to blab about this. This is another sloppy attempt to provide cover for Pelosi and her tribe.
They have to attack Cheney because of his rising popularity. And why on earth would anyone trust the Rats in Congress with protecting any secrets involving national defense...?
Obama is sinking in the polls, unemployment is HIGH, Obama's ROE for our troops is getting more of our troops killed every day, people are waking to what a socialist, communist Obama is, the list goes on and on so of course they have to go after Cheney.
Pelosi and the other dems are famous for leaking information to the New York Times and Cheney was supposed to trust them with information that would endanger all of our lives when legally he id not have to tell them squat.
I say God bless Dick Cheney and thank you sir for your wisdom then and now about these low lifes in government.
Posted by Wild Thing at July 13, 2009 04:49 AM
Comments
If the CIA would have briefed Congress, it would have most definitely been leaked to the NY Times. One of the biggest threats to the lives or our Soldiers and Marines is Congress knowing too much about operations.
Posted by: BobF at July 13, 2009 07:24 AM
Peelosi is a liar. She was told, even democrats said they can't understand why she didn't get it. That should be obvious too.
Now everybody seems to be covering up for her. I'll tell you 2010 can't get here fast enough.
Posted by: Mark at July 13, 2009 02:55 PM
BobF., exactly, the left always leaks
things to them. And like you said too
it puts the lives of our troops in
even more danger.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 13, 2009 06:52 PM
Mark,I sure hope 2010 makes a difference,
it just has to.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 13, 2009 06:55 PM
