CNN Politics.com
July 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The House Intelligence Committee will investigate whether any laws were broken when the CIA concealed a now-canceled counterterrorism program from Congress, the panel’s chairman announced Friday.
Among the things the committee will look into is “whether there was any past decision or direction to withhold information from the committee,” Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said in a statement announcing the probe.
“I intend to make this investigation fair and thorough, and it is my goal that it will not become a distraction to the men and women of the CIA,” he said.
“However, in order to assist them fully and keep them well-resourced, it is the responsibility of the executive branch to ensure that the committee is kept fully and currently informed of all significant anticipated intelligence activities.”
CIA Director Leon Panetta told a congressional committee in June that he was told former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the intelligence agency to withhold information about the secret program from Congress. …
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/17/congress.cia/index.html
Putting the neocons “back into the box” is long overdue. The neocons may have started to feel invincible after getting away with so much.
American history would be hard-pressed to reveal another political party that painted itself into as many corners as did the neocons. And now comes another corner that the neocons appear to have painted themselves in.
The neocons created a program – but never fully implemented it during their “rein”. But shortly after the neocons lost power, the neocon generated program was slated for a trial run. Strange timing.
Why?
Why were conditions right to spring this program on America and the world after the neocons lost power? This neocon generated program was not fully activated during the neocon’s rein but was slated for activation AFTER THE NEOCONS lost power.
Why?
Why didn’t the neocons want CREDIT for the results their killing program would bring? They certainly were in dire need of an “ATTA-BOY”.
