- If this were the democracy that the Founding Fathers
thought they were creating, word from CIA Director Leon Panetta that his
agency had lied to Congress and specifically that it had lied repeatedly
from 9-11-2001 through the end of 2008 concerning an as-yet undisclosed
secret program, would have virtually every member of Congress in a state
of rebellion, demanding answers.
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- After all, the CIA is required by law to report to at
least the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence
Committees and to the majority and minority leaders of both houses of Congress
about such things.
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- But not only did the spy agency not report on what it
was up to; it lied about what it was up to.
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- Now, given what we do know about the Bush/Cheney administration-that
it initiated a massive campaign of spying on Americans by the Defense Department,
the FBI, and the National Security Agency, as well as other intelligence
agencies, that it initiated a campaign of torture of captives, including
American citizens, while asserting that the President didn't even need
to notify the courts or the public about the arrest, detention, torture
or even execution of an American citizen if he, acting on his own, deemed
that person to be an "enemy combatant," and given that we also
know that Bush and Cheney lied repeatedly about the justification for their
invasion of Iraq, and refused to be put under oath in their "interviews"
by the 9-11 Commission, you would think the members of Congress, which
was railroaded into supporting everything from the USA PATRIOT Act to the
Iraq War invasion based on all these lies and deceptions, would be demanding
answers regarding this mysterious program.
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/336
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