MSNBC w/ DAVID SHUSTER - July 10, 2009: With Joan Walsh interview.
DAVID SHUSTER: "There are new calls by Democrats to investigate whether CIA leaders and officials misled and withheld information from Congress over the past eight years. Those calls follow revelations about a still-highly classified CIA program that was allegedly hidden from Congress since 2001.
According to the Washington Post, CIA Director Leon Panetta just learned of the program on June the 23rd, four months after taking office and ordered it cancelled immediately... As for what that program was, there's speculation it may have involved what investigative reporter Seymour Hersh alleges was an executive assassination ring run by former vice President Dick Cheney. Hersh first dropped the news of the possibility in a discussion in March sponsored by the University of Minnesota.
Hersh says the teams did not answer to the CIA, only to Dick Cheney, and after he left office, those teams answered to nobody."