Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute

Care to provide a source for this information? What was the program called? Some sort of detail would be useful here ..otherwise this is no better than hearsay.

Well, the source for the article is up above, the source for the information is CIA Director Leon E. Panetta. The story has just been released and details are sketchy and plus still classified to the public (although that may change as time goes on). Apparently those in congress have recently been made aware of the program which had been hidden since 2001 after the attack of 9/11. Republicans in congress (according to the article) are not denying the secret program, just dismissing the relevance of the secret program in terms of the CIA recently claiming to have kept congress informed of all their programs and policies because the programs was not a major tool of the CIA.

Its about time that someone, congress, showed the CIA that they are less powerful than congress. They, the cia, have gotten us in more wars than most politicians.

i loved this line



okay, then tell us all about and we'll see if you're right

I am not trying to say any of this is confirmed I just it would be kind of handy to have one place to keep information that may or may not be coming concerning the Bush administration/CIA and other agencies policies of which they kept congress in the dark about and about which they have denied doing in the past.

To that end:

A government report raises new questions about how the Bush White House kept key Justice officials in the dark about the post-Sept. 11 program.

They seemed to have sunk into a pattern with all these kinds of issues, first they would deny any of it, then they would say they kept congress informed and then they would say they had the right to keep such secrets because it fell under presidential powers of which they seemed to have made up as they went along as it suited them and last and kind of all the along the way at the same time, they would say they were justified at whatever they did because of the enemy we faced (real or ones they picked) required us not adhering to previous standards.