House Intelligence Committee to investigate CIA program kept secret from Congress since 2001

[sabra]

Source: AP



WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not telling Congress earlier about a secret program to deploy hit teams to kill individual al-Qaida members.

CIA Director Leon Panetta told the committee about the program on June 24, a day after he first learned of the program and canceled it himself.

Law requires that the House and Senate intelligence committees be kept informed of significant intelligence activities or anticipated activities. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., announced the investigation in a statement Friday.


Read more: http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/congress/51040487.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUMEaPc:E7_ec7PaP3iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

[Autumn]

1. About time. I hope it

is an open hearing.

[Stuart G]

2. I can only hope that they get them, and it is not a whitewash...

Look at the 9/ll commission. Looked good, but settled nothing...

They could have a very narrow view of it, Oh...mistakes were made, oh would be ok in these few cases...

Put the assholes in jail, they broke the law..........

[derby378]

3. From babylonsister

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/breaking-house-dems-will-investigate-secret-cia-program

After careful consideration and consultation with the Ranking Minority Member and other members of the Committee, I am announcing an official Committee investigation into possible violations of federal law, including the National Security Act of 1974.

This investigation will focus on the core issues of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed. To this end, the investigation will examine several issues, including the program discussed during {CIA} Director {Leon} Panetta's June 24th notification and whether there was any official decision or direction to withold information from the Committee.

[Wednesdays]

4. K&R

:kick:

[bobthedrummer]

5. Hope that we don't go into the dog and pony show.

Below is a thread about a previous House intelligence/law enforcement community investigation that I started March 11, 2008. The reforms that were called for never effectively happened and the report itself is apparently still classified.

The Pike Committee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2990965

[bobthedrummer]

6. Crossposted active GD thread-thanks for starting this one sabra

"In light of the assassination program, a few questions about some people I knew about..." (started by Octafish 7-17-09)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6089862

:patriot:

[troubledamerican]

7. Investigate the Anthrax Attacks

[IndianaGreen]

8. Israel Trains U.S. Assassination Squads

Congress is lying to us. Details of assassination programs have been known for years.

This is an old news item that was not carried by MSM, but it points out that the US has been involved in the death squad business for longer than most of us have been alive:

Israel Trains U.S. Assassination Squads

Democracy Now! & Julian Borger

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh reveals how a new Special Forces group assembled to "neutralize" Iraqi resistance is working with Israeli commandoes to train in assassination and other tactics - comparable to the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. One of the key planners is Lt Gen. William Boykin who declared that Bush was not elected but appointed by God.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5364.htm

Posted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=463349&mesg_id=464353