Report: CIA withheld information in shooting down of plane in Peru

[amyrose2712]

PAMELA HESS -- The Associated Press
Updated: 11/21/2008 01:26:56 PM EST

WASHINGTON - The CIA withheld information from the White House, Justice Department and Congress about the 2001 shooting down of a plane over Peru carrying an American missionary family, part of a years-long cover-up of lethal violations in U.S. drug-interdiction procedures, according to a classified internal CIA report.

Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called for a criminal investigation and said Congress would hold hearings on the matter in the new year.

"This is as ugly as it gets: an agency operating outside of the law, covering it up and getting away with it as long as they did," Hoekstra said.

The plane was owned by the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, headquartered on Lewisberry Road in Fairview Township, according to Donald Davis, corporate counsel for the association.

Killed in the crash were Veronica "Roni" Bowers and her 7-month-old daughter, Charity, he said. Her husband, James Bowers, survived the crash, as did their 6-year-old son and the ABWE pilot, Kevin Donaldson, Davis said.

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Report just released: The CIA inspector general's report dated Aug. 25, excerpts of which were released Thursday, said the agency hid from Congress, the National Security Council and Justice Department the results of multiple internal investigations that documented "sustained and significant" violations of White House-sanctioned aircraft intercept procedures. The procedures were created to prevent the shooting down of innocent aircraft over the Amazon jungle like the April 2001 downing of the missionaries' aircraft.

http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_11041786

[WeDidIt]

1. Oddly enough, I heard from a lawyer friend that the CIA is heavily recruiting

attorneys right now.

I wonder why?