The secret program Dems are using to cover Pelosi's CIA blunder

Washington Post:

Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the initiative and schedule a pair of closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

The next day, June 24, Panetta informed the House and Senate intelligence committees of the program and the action he had taken, according to Democratic and Republican members of the panels.

The incident has reignited a long-running dispute between congressional Democrats and the CIA, with some calling it part of a broader pattern of the agency withholding information from Congress. Some Republicans, meanwhile, privately questioned whether Panetta -- who has stood with CIA officers in a dispute with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- was looking to score points with House Democrats.

The program remains classified, and those knowledgeable about it would describe it only vaguely yesterday. Several current and former administration officials called it an "on-again, off-again" attempt to create a new intelligence capability and said it was related to the collection of information on suspected terrorists that was instituted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Congressional Republicans said no briefing about the program was required because it was not a major tool used against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. They accused Democrats of using the matter to divert attention away from Pelosi's accusation that CIA officials intentionally misled her in 2002 about the agency's interrogations of suspected terrorists.

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This program has zero to do with whether Pelosi was told about the harsh interrogation techniques used on some al Qaeda operatives. There is little doubt outside of her own brain cavity that she was informed, and she made up an allegation she had been lied to to cover up the fact that she later said such activity was illegal.

This is a diversion to try to give her political cover so that the Democrat base which did not want to use those methods will forget she at least went along with them. It is another example of the Democrats politics of fraud and diversion. They are like squids spewing ink to cover their tails. They continue this type of bad faith politics because they keep getting away with it.