CIA Director Fires Back: 'Not Our Policy or Practice to Mislead Congress'

But you Mis-led us into a War In Iraq!

Let's have a real investigation.

Pelosi is in big trouble, even with the Obama White House.

But you Mis-led us into a War In Iraq!

Posted by: Angie in Pa | May 15, 2009 2:32:44 PM
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Yup. An illegal war that Pb0 continues, and lied to you about his "intentions" to withdraw after you elected him.

Angie in Pa:

What a bunch of Bull. The CIA did the best job they could to provide intel on the situation in Iraq before the war. It is an organization that was crippled in its ability to obtain covert in country info by those who do not value inteligence obtained by field agents (mainly those on the Left). Using limited info their assessment on Iraq was probably wrong. To mis-lead implies intentionally providing data that leads a person or group to the wrong conclusion. Being wrong does not make you a liar. Cut the political BS. You sound like a PELOSI and not a patriot.

I believe you are right. I think she is gonna have to resign. Got to be a fall person for a gaffe of this magnitude.

What was she thinking....with any of the 3 or 4 stories to pick from.

Worked for me...fired. No trust, no job.

But thats just me. We shall see what we shall see. This is better than Guiding Light I can tellya.

The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.

So, the CIA says that "it's not our policy or practice to mislead Congress", not they never do just that, just that it's not their policy. Does anyone,whatever their political persuasion, really believe that the CIA has never and would never mislead Congress, the President, the American people? Or for that matter, that a President, or member of Congress, or the FBI, or the military, or law enforcement, etc., has never and would never mislead anyone?

We know that former Sen. Bob Graham called the CIA to ask them what dates their records showed he had been briefed in 2002/2003 regarding interrogations - they gave him 4 dates - he keeps a daily journal and he went back and checked and found that on only 1 of those 4 dates had he been briefed (and it wasn't a highly classified brieging, because they let 2 of his staff members stay for the briefing) - so he called the CIA back to tell them that according to his records, he had only been briefed once re: interrogations - and after checking, the CIA agreed with Graham. So, did the CIA "mislead" Graham? Did the CIA "lie" to Graham? They certainly gave him "inaccurate" or "false" information, and if Graham didn't keep a daily journal, he'd never have been able to get the CIA to admit that the information they give was wrong.

hello

These libs are worse than Bush.

It's time to back our intelligence communities. They have ethics whereas the Congress does not.

"My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not appropriately inform Congress is separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community" So: Only yesterday the CIA members were liars and today she respects them?? And now it's the "Bush administration" that "did not appropriately inform Congress." This lying, inept phony needs to shut up. She keeps burying herself deeper as she changes stories. She's toast and everyone knows it, except maybe her. Retire or be fired!

What possible motive would the CIA have to deliberately lie to Pelosi? I don't get it.

I don't think it time to back the intelligence communities. They gave Bush a rationalization for a false war and tried to get more information to prove the war was justified, by torturing people.
Torturing is against the law.
Change the law if you want to torture, but don't pretend it's okay with a wink and a nudge.

Once again Speaker Pelosi blames everyone but herself. She is certainly very good about making sure she is always in the forefront of any decisions that appear favorable to the country acting as if she had total control over passage through the house, yet always very quick to blame everyone else for anything bad. Opportunistic, self-righteous, egotistical all come to my mind when one speaks the name Speaker Pelosi. This is just another one of those occasions. Come on Congress, surely someone there has enough guts to step forward and declare that Speaker Pelosi is doing more to harm this country than most anyone else. Fire her! You can do it, I know you can.

Focusing on Pelosi is nothing more than typical republican diversionary tactic. It's a distraction. We will never know the real truth. What I find, however, interesting is that when this story first broke, it was about Cheney, Bush and a politically appointed Bush lawyer who alledgedly doctored a memo and superceded our treaty obligations and ignored are Constitution. Suddenly, the republicans were in an uproar and began insinuating that Pelosi knew about the approved (by Bush according to Cheney) torture memo which Bush's sly lawyer drafted at Bush's order, which re-defined the legal definition of waterboarding as it relates to the issue of torture. Now Pelosi may have known, we don't have undeniable proof yet. But even if she did (and she should at LEAST be forced to resign forever if it is found that she did know and is lying about it to boot)why did the republicans fail to make such a fuss when the story was about Bush and Cheney? Boy have the neo-cons JUMPED sll over this Pelosi angle but will not discuss who was responsible for originating the mess to begin with. When I have been able to pin them down, they deny waterboarding was torture. They deny that we have a Treaty because, after all, the Taliban, Al Queda and terrorists in general never signed that Treaty so it is invalid. They deny that unlike what Cheney says, there is no proof that waterboarding ever saved any American lives. They just deny, divert, ramble on, babble on, insult, accuse falsely, accost....I mean you all get the picture. This is the way the neo wing of the extreme right wing of the republican party behaves. It is those same types who got us into this to begin with.

Mario Solis Marich suggested that we call the Republicans' bluff by investigating Pelosi. What better way to get to the bottom of the torture scandal and get Cheney convicted as a war criminal! If we begin by investigating Nancy Pelosi, the ball will be rolling and the Republicans will be powerless to keep their own from being brought to justice Nuremburg-style. Nancy will in all probability be vindicated because, as one caller said, she was never appointed President-for-a-day and so never had the opportunity to order torture.

I find it very interesting that former Senator Bob Graham of Florida was also accused of being briefed by the CIA about waterboarding and other extreme techniques. Graham luckily was a thorough journal keeper his entire career. The CIA claimed 4 dates as when he was filled in on their torture techniques. Graham was able to prove with his journals that on only one of those dates did he even have a CIA briefing and his notes showed it did not cover waterboarding.
It would seem the CIA's credibility should be questioned on Pelosi's situation if they were not being honest or were in error about Graham. This should be a lesson to every politican to keep accurate journals.
Graham should be extremely happy he kept such quality notes.

So, the CIA says that "it's not our policy or practice to mislead Congress", not they never do just that, just that it's not their policy. Does anyone,whatever their political persuasion, really believe that the CIA has never and would never mislead Congress, the President, the American people? Or for that matter, that a President, or member of Congress, or the FBI, or the military, or law enforcement, etc., has never and would never mislead anyone?

We know that former Sen. Bob Graham called the CIA to ask them what dates their records showed he had been briefed in 2002/2003 regarding interrogations - they gave him 4 dates - he keeps a daily journal and he went back and checked and found that on only 1 of those 4 dates had he been briefed (and it wasn't a highly classified brieging, because they let 2 of his staff members stay for the briefing) - so he called the CIA back to tell them that according to his records, he had only been briefed once re: interrogations - and after checking, the CIA agreed with Graham. So, did the CIA "mislead" Graham? Did the CIA "lie" to Graham? They certainly gave him "inaccurate" or "false" information, and if Graham didn't keep a daily journal, he'd never have been able to get the CIA to admit that the information they give was wrong.

This was perhaps the most fair post on the board. The poster is obviously not naive nor gullible. Some of you here would do well to give thought to what they posted. We still live in a country where one is innocent until PROVEN guilty.

And notice how this poster insulted nobody, called no one names, did not label anyone...or otherwise do anything but responsibly post an opinion.

I agree with Jeffrey Johnson's comment that the fuss over Pelosi is to detract from Cheney & friends. It is sad that much of the media seems to be going along with the distraction.
Our country needs to find out the truth about who ordered and approved the extreme torture and those individuals need to be charged and convicted.