Democrats want CIA program investigated

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Democrats want CIA program investigated

By Ian Swanson

Democrats are calling for an investigation of a CIA program that former Vice President Dick Cheney allegedly kept from Congress.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said there “absolutely” has to be an investigation by congressional intelligence panels into Cheney’s influence on CIA briefings about the program, while Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said the Cheney’s decision to order the CIA not to brief Congress was a “big problem.”

“The executive branch of government cannot create programs like these programs and keep Congress in the dark,” Durbin said on ABC’s “This Week.”

The decision to keep knowledge of the program from Congress was inappropriate, he said, and could be illegal.

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Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said: “I think it’s impossible to just leave it lay when you have something like this. It’s either true or it’s not true . . .  nobody in this country is above the law.”

[Hugabear]

1. Hugabear wants CIA program SHUT DOWN

Shut down the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, and all of our other intelligence-gathering organizations. We need to start completely from scratch. The system has simply become too corrupt to fix. Who knows how many other dirty little secrets these organizations are hiding that Congress knows nothing about?

[Cha]

2. Good...no wonder the dick was out defending himself

on john king:silly:, etc, etc, etc.