The CIA.
Intelligence.
Where the hell does it say that every damn congressman and senator and even the average American citizen must know every detail of the CIA's actions and procedures.
I think all those people knowing would be a serious security breach or threat.
They could be compromised by many means,bribes, *********, extortion, threats ect.
Judging by what I've seen and heard from Pelosi Reed Fienstien and even Senator Al Franken, I'll put my trust in national security with the CIA over those "16 million dollars to save a swamp rat in San Francisco" anyday.
Just another smoke and mirrors attempt to sidetrack us stupid naive Americans as to whats actually happening.
Ouch.
Cheap shot, but at least in Colombia the politicians don't create this kind of bullshit.
I'm not an expert on the constitution, but I know a little.
And I know that every politician in office is not privy to all the interworkings of the Intelligence agency, in any country.
Thats why its called intelligence and not public knowledge.
The congress and the press and the president have made people think that every detail of national security should be common knowledge of the common man.
Thats crazy.
If we knew every shady deal, lie, tweaked information, hidden agenda, covered up operation/deal/agreement, etc. etc. etc., it can go on and on. If we knew it all this country would be gone by now.
Special ******, government agencies, and all those spook and shadow firms, what would we gain if we knew what it is they do every single day?
Dick Cheney played a key role in US anti-****** policy after 9/11.
It's not making intelligence public knowledge to provide members of the government charged with executing a function related to such information.Mega Mega,
I think your taking it too far. This peoples right to know.
We don't even know the details on what the article is about because they ain't tellin us.
Just inuendo (did I spell that right.)
I'm just saying simply that Although Congress does decide what to fund, they and us don't and shouldn't know all the details of the inter-workings of the intelligence agency.
Thats why its called intelligence and not public knowledge.
I can't say more, thats all I've got.
Ouch.
Cheap shot, but at least in Colombia the politicians don't create this kind of bullshit.
I'm not an expert on the constitution, but I know a little.
And I know that every politician in office is not privy to all the interworkings of the Intelligence agency, in any country.
Thats why its called intelligence and not public knowledge.
The congress and the press and the president have made people think that every detail of national security should be common knowledge of the common man.
Thats crazy.
You would fit very well with the old USSR, where the Central Intelligence is king and nobody can find out what they are doing. If you trust your government to always work within the rules and adhere to our constitutional rights then you, sir, are very naive. Just the kind of guy that Cheney would want as a voter.
It was brought up for the reason of deflecting from Pelosi lying like hell about not being informed on ******* from the CIA…which we all know she was informed.
CIA Admits It Misled Congress in Past, Lawmakers Say (Update1)
By James Rowley
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Six Democrats on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said the head of the CIA admitted the agency misled Congress since 2001 about “significant actions.........
......Reyes, who wasn’t among the six lawmakers who signed the letter to Panetta, praised the CIA chief’s “recent efforts to bring issues to the committee’s attention’’ that “had not been previously conveyed’’ to it.
Reyes was blunter in a July 7 letter to the panel’s top Republican, saying that the CIA had lied to the committee at least once.
Information Panetta gave the panel June 24 “brought to light significant information on the inadequacy of reporting to the committee,’’ Reyes wrote to Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan.
The information provided by Panetta “led me to conclude that this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notification and (in at least once case) was affirmatively lied to,’’ Reyes said in a letter, first reported by Congressional Quarterly.