Republicans Who Say CIA Secret Program Story Is Good For GOP Won’t Support Probe

[babylonsister]

imo, the rethugs are trying to put lipstick on a pig that they'll own if this goes forward.


http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/republicans-who-say-cia-secret-program-story-is-good-for-gop-wont-support-probe/

Republicans Who Say CIA Secret Program Story Is Good For GOP Won’t Support Probe


If you believe the Politico, Republicans are very, very psyched about the media’s heavy focus on that secret Cheney-authorized program that the CIA concealed from Congress, because it’s really bad politically for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.

Republicans claim that House Dems who are mulling an investigation into the secret CIA program, like Intel committee chair Silvestre Reyes, are helping the GOP paint Pelosi and Dems as weak on terror. As a spokesman for GOP leader John Boehner put it: “The speaker’s liberal allies are keeping her accusations against the CIA front and center.”

This raises the question: If keeping these allegations in the news is so good for Republicans, why don’t they want a probe of the program?

If the House did launch an investigation into the CIA’s secret program, of course, the media attention to this story would ratchet up exponentially. Yet Republicans mysteriously don’t support any such efforts. Boehner spokesperson Michael Steel declined to answer directly when I asked him if the Congressman would back an investigation. Meanwhile, GOP Rep Pete Hoekstra was similarly dismissive: “I don’t have to revisit these things.”

It’s possible that Republicans secretly think a probe would be bad for Dems and want it to look like Dems instigated it. Or maybe the GOP claim that revelations about Bush-Cheney-era CIA deception are really good for Republicans deserve a tad more skepticism.

[Lerkfish]

1. its conceivable it was a black ops program AGAINST sitting dem politicians

in which case they would not want to have that revealed.

if we'll recall, a large number of democratic politicians were prosecuted.

[global1]

2. Sounds Like A Game Of Chicken To Me........

actually I'm thinking the Obama Administration is trying to get the Repugs to say - yeah - let's have a probe of this. If this happened then ObamaCo can have the cover of saying that the Repugs even called for a probe and that it is not a political witch-hunt. Then Pandora's Box can be opened and all the wrongdoing of BushCo would be exposed. I think the Repugs sense this - so as for now it is a stand-off.

As a result it is the American people who get the short end of the stick and the Constitution gets eroded.

[spanone]

3. two words.....SPECIAL PROSECUTOR