Panetta terminated secret program
Program existed for eight years without the knowledge of Congress
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a “very serious” covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday.
Schakowsky is pressing for an immediate committee investigation of the classified program, which has not been described publicly. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has said he is considering an investigation.
Panetta has launched an internal probe at the CIA to determine why Congress was not told about the program. Exactly what the classified program entailed is still unclear.
The intelligence official said the program was “on-again/off-again” and that it was never fully operational, but he would not provide details.
Schakowsky, D-Ill., said Friday that the CIA and Bush administration consciously decided not to tell Congress.
“It’s not as if this was an oversight and over the years it just got buried. There was a decision under several directors of the CIA and administration not to tell the Congress,” she said.
First, Congress cannot be trusted in a time of war to keep their mouths shut, they love leaking top secret information to agencies like the New York Times.
Congress is determined to attack Bush and the war against terror, as they and Obama always believed the 9/11 attacks and other acts are at best law enforcement problems. They will, like they did under Billy Jeff, do all they can to gut our intelligence services and leave America vulnerable to further attacks on the homeland, our embassies, our military and other American interests.
This and the other story I posted earlier represent an all out war on the CIA and a defense of Prime Minister Pelosi’s lying claim to have known nothing about advanced interrogation techniques.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31849628/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
