Wednesday, May 20, 2009

CIA Already Being Probed for Possible Lying

Pelosi isn't the only one in the House who suspects the CIA of lying. According to this report in Muskegon News, then ranking republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra, suggested that the CIA may be covering up and even lying to Congress:
"We need to follow up as aggressively as we can," Hoekstra said. "We cannot have an intelligence community that covers up what it does and then lies to Congress." [- then Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R)]
Talking Points Memo's Zachary Roth has more on the story.
As they go after Nancy Pelosi over those CIA briefings, Republicans have been putting the burden of proof on the Speaker, suggesting that it's all but unheard of for the CIA to mislead others in government. But in fact, the agency is currently being probed for doing exactly that on a different issue -- and the effort was initiated by one of Pelosi's fiercest critics on the torture briefings kerfuffle.
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