Congressman, CIA dispute briefing list accuracy

[L. Coyote]

Source: Associated Press – 39 mins ago

Pamela Hess – 39 mins ago

WASHINGTON – A top House Democrat raised new questions Tuesday about the accuracy of the CIA's account of congressional briefings on severe interrogation techniques. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin said a staff aide that the CIA listed as attending a 2006 briefing was instead barred from the session.

The CIA stood behind its version of the briefing.

In a letter Monday to CIA Director Leon Panetta, Obey questioned CIA records that show a committee aide, Paul Juola, attended a Sept. 19, 2006, briefing that included a discussion of 13 harsh interrogation techniques.

According to Obey, Juola accompanied members of Congress to the briefing room, but was told by then-CIA Director Michael Hayden and another CIA official that he could not attend.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090519/ap_on_go_co/us_cia_interrogation

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This week, CIA is testifying before a grand jury, and Congress is investigating too:

*** Congress Investigating Documented CIA Lying ***
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5682421

Will Porter Goss be prosecuted for lying to Congress?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5671623

The assualt on Pelosi seems timed to her apparent approval of the Intelligence subcommittee
inquiry weeks ago, Republican punishment for carrying out her oath of office, it seems to me!

[sybylla]

1. Go, Obey!

That man don't take no sh** off of nobody.

[sofa king]

2. So... does anyone have a box score yet?

Senator Graham busted them. Speaker Pelosi busted them. Chairman Obey busted them. At what point do we get to say that the CIA is a continuing part of a conspiracy and cover-up for the Bush Administration, and start firing off and imprisoning those conspirators?

I remain convinced that it was Goss' job to remake the CIA into a shady wing of the Republican Party. It would be well in keeping with his Operation 40 past.

[L. Coyote]

4. SALON: Porter Goss' spooky demise

Porter Goss' spooky demise
Bush's CIA chief abruptly resigns under a shadow of alleged ties to a corrupt congressman and leaves a spy agency in chaos.
By Walter Shapiro - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/06/goss/


May 6, 2006 | WASHINGTON -- If George W. Bush were presiding over a normal administration, there would be nothing spooky about Porter Goss' abrupt resignation ...

... little artistic training is needed to speculatively link Goss' here's-your-hat-what's-your-hurry departure with the bribery scandal surrounding jailed former GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

.... the Foggo-Wilkes connection may have nothing to do with the sudden change in Goss' career arc. Daalder posed the speculative question, "Was there an intelligence blunder that we don't know about -- and that we may never know about?" Certainly, given the disarray at the CIA, it is plausible that the agency could have made a major misjudgment ....

........ Goss' final accomplishment as CIA director -- such as it was -- was forcing out of her job a highly respected veteran intelligence officer, Mary McCarthy, for the purported leaking of classified information about secret CIA prisons abroad. McCarthy has denied being the leaker -- and her more obvious offenses were serving in the Clinton administration and donating $2,000 to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. ...

[ohio2007]

3. thats why meetings are called

"off the record"
CYA are the reasons being quoted by "anonymous" sources