A couple months ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, asserted the Central Intelligence Agency misled Congressional members when it came to disclosing details about its use of torture during the interrogation of war on terror detainees.
The Speaker received some support and corroboration from a number of other members, both Republicans and Democrats. But the GOP leadership cynically thought it was an opportunity to make some political points with fake outrage that Ms. Pelosi would dare question the CIA.
"I think her accusations against our terror-fighters are irresponsible and, according to the CIA's record, Speaker Pelosi was briefed on what had been done," said Sen. Kit Bond, the senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It's outrageous that a member of Congress would call our terror-fighters liars." (Link)
Guess what?
In a June 26 letter to Mr. Panetta discussing his testimony, Democrats said that the agency had "misled members" of Congress for eight years about the classified matters, which the letter did not disclose. "This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods," said the letter, made public late Wednesday by Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, one of the signers. (Link)
It's not likely the GOP will make much noise about this as it exposes Sen. Kit Bond and his co-conspirators as petty liars.
The tragedy, of course, is that the real story will be lost; that the CIA deliberately acted independently and illegally without oversight.
I suppose one can infer that's acceptable to the new Republican Party.
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