By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 2:25PM
As they go after Nancy Pelosi over the CIA briefings issue, Republicans have been putting the burden of proof on the Speaker, suggesting that it's all but unheard of for the CIA to mislead others in government. But in fact, the agency is currently being probed for doing exactly that on a different issue.
Last night, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who chairs the oversight subcommittee of the House intelligence committee, told MSNBC's Ed Schultz (h/t Democratic Underground):
On our subcommittee we are beginning an inquiry into a situation ... initiated by the ranking minority member to look at a situation where the CIA did mislead the Congress ... a documented issue of the CIA misleading the Congress ...
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