When has the CIA lied to Congress? Just ask these GOP Congressmen and others

[ElsewheresDaughter]

John Boehner said today that, "I've dealt with our intelligence professionals for the last three-and-a-half years on an almost daily basis, and it's hard for me to imagine that our intelligence area would ever mislead a member of Congress." But when the topic was the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, Boehner sang a different tune: "Either I don't have confidence in what they told me several months ago or I don't have confidence in what they're telling me today." And on the February 11, 2007 edition of Meet The Press, Boehner said, "It's clear to all of us, Democrats and Republicans, that we have flawed intelligence. The CIA have bad intelligence, the Pentagon had bad intelligence and, for that matter, all of our allies around the world had the same bad intelligence. And so that's why Republicans voted to set up the National Intelligence Directorate to reform our intelligence activities."

Rep John Boehner Now and Then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQpsm9mBm44&feature=player_embedded


--Here's Marcy Wheeler accusing the CIA of lying to ABC News a couple of times, and ABC not learning a lesson from it.

--In 2007, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cia-misled-britain-over-rendition-plan-458756.html British intelligence officials accused the CIA of misleading them "over the arrest and treatment of terrorist suspects who were the subjects of rendition to Guantanamo Bay."

--Also in 2007, Federal prosecutors "said the CIA misled federal judges regarding the evidence against Zacarias Moussaoui."

--In 2004, the CIA had to acknowledge that they "did not provide the United Nations with information about 21 of the 105 sites in Iraq singled out by American intelligence before the war as the most highly suspected of housing illicit weapons."

--In 2008, then ranking member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence GOP Congressman Pete Hoekstra -- who has Pelosi under fire today -- himself "called for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department during its inquiry into the 2001 shoot-down of an American missionary plane by the Peruvian air force with help from a CIA counternarcotics spotter plane."

--And of course, the CIA famously destroyed some http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123600509352009745.html ninety-two videotapes that pertained specifically to the very detention and interrogation program that's at the center of this dispute, a move that truly exemplifies the agency's towering affection for honesty and openness!

If the CIA had nothing to hide then why did they destroy the tapes? Hmmm? After all, it was done with presidential authority, wasn't it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/media-shocked---shocked_n_203730.html

[bobthedrummer]

1. Iran-Contra and earlier...

The Pike Committee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2990965

[Supersedeas]

2. shhh, don't distract the Media from the myopic focus on RW talking points about Pelosi

[Sensitivity]

3. WHAT POSSIBLE incentive would the CIA have for NOT DISCLOSING that they were

torturing folks before informing Congress???

I am sure the Agency would never consider such MISLEADING communications.