CIA Director Fires Back: ‘Not Our Policy or Practice to Mislead Congress’

But you Mis-led us into a War In Iraq!

Pelosi is in big trouble, even with the Obama White House.

Angie in Pa:
What a bunch of Bull. The CIA did the best job they could to provide intel on the situation in Iraq before the war. It is an organization that was crippled in its ability to obtain covert in country info by those who do not value inteligence obtained by field agents (mainly those on the Left). Using limited info their assessment on Iraq was probably wrong. To mis-lead implies intentionally providing data that leads a person or group to the wrong conclusion. Being wrong does not make you a liar. Cut the political BS. You sound like a PELOSI and not a patriot.

The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.

hello

It’s time to back our intelligence communities. They have ethics whereas the Congress does not.

What possible motive would the CIA have to deliberately lie to Pelosi? I don’t get it.

Once again Speaker Pelosi blames everyone but herself. She is certainly very good about making sure she is always in the forefront of any decisions that appear favorable to the country acting as if she had total control over passage through the house, yet always very quick to blame everyone else for anything bad. Opportunistic, self-righteous, egotistical all come to my mind when one speaks the name Speaker Pelosi. This is just another one of those occasions. Come on Congress, surely someone there has enough guts to step forward and declare that Speaker Pelosi is doing more to harm this country than most anyone else. Fire her! You can do it, I know you can.

Mario Solis Marich suggested that we call the Republicans’ bluff by investigating Pelosi. What better way to get to the bottom of the torture scandal and get Cheney convicted as a war criminal! If we begin by investigating Nancy Pelosi, the ball will be rolling and the Republicans will be powerless to keep their own from being brought to justice Nuremburg-style. Nancy will in all probability be vindicated because, as one caller said, she was never appointed President-for-a-day and so never had the opportunity to order torture.

So, the CIA says that “it’s not our policy or practice to mislead Congress”, not they never do just that, just that it’s not their policy. Does anyone,whatever their political persuasion, really believe that the CIA has never and would never mislead Congress, the President, the American people? Or for that matter, that a President, or member of Congress, or the FBI, or the military, or law enforcement, etc., has never and would never mislead anyone?
We know that former Sen. Bob Graham called the CIA to ask them what dates their records showed he had been briefed in 2002/2003 regarding interrogations – they gave him 4 dates – he keeps a daily journal and he went back and checked and found that on only 1 of those 4 dates had he been briefed (and it wasn’t a highly classified brieging, because they let 2 of his staff members stay for the briefing) – so he called the CIA back to tell them that according to his records, he had only been briefed once re: interrogations – and after checking, the CIA agreed with Graham. So, did the CIA “mislead” Graham? Did the CIA “lie” to Graham? They certainly gave him “inaccurate” or “false” information, and if Graham didn’t keep a daily journal, he’d never have been able to get the CIA to admit that the information they give was wrong.
This was perhaps the most fair post on the board. The poster is obviously not naive nor gullible. Some of you here would do well to give thought to what they posted. We still live in a country where one is innocent until PROVEN guilty.
And notice how this poster insulted nobody, called no one names, did not label anyone…or otherwise do anything but responsibly post an opinion.

Nancy Pelosi is obsessed with the Bush administration and is now showing herself to be as irrational as most of us knew her to be. The truth always comes out in the end.

Plain and simple this woman lied and got caught. She needs to resign from congress and go the hell away. Ms. pelosi look and acted like a lying loon yesterday and she is second in line to be president. She set herself up nobody else helped her, she has no defense.

I strongly agree with the statement … We are Americans… We don’t torture. It does not matter whether torture worked or did not work. The point is the Constitution was violated & International laws were broken.
We do not torture, and torture is a crime, not a .technique . If you want to work for a government and want to torture someone, you need to find another country. Government employees take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. If you are a government official and torture someone, you have failed your oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and you have broken the law. We do not need or want people working in our government that conducted torture.
There is no way anyone can respect the CIA if it rewards torture interrogators with their job. Abscense of morality in any government agency will not result in respect, ether now or in the future. This controversy is not about legal opinions & the CIA its about the CYA mentality of the Bush Administration.
At the Nuremberg trials in 1946, the U.S., England, and France decided that just taking orders is not excuse for torture. Concentration Camp commander’s defended their actions as just taking orders. No doubt Nazi lawyers declared their actions both necessary and legal under German Third Reicht Law. At Nuremberg in 1946, the decision by the U.S., France, and England was unanimous, that a person is responsible for their own actions. No orders or shadow legality is a defense against a complete loss of morality. The trials at Nuremberg set the standard. Just taking orders does not give anyone, not even an American, the right to torture another person . We do not want our country to have Nazi morality standards.
I hope we still have today as much moral strength as our fathers that fought WWII to save our country and save our Constitution. If government officials today trash our Constitution to gain immediate ends, then we have lost any meaningful difference between our enemies and ourselves.
We are America, and We don’t torture. Our Constitution and our morality are worth far more than any information obtained from torture. The ends do not justify the means .
We should also keep in mind that who knew what & when is irrevlent & who did what and when is what is important !
We are Americans, and We don’t torture. NO IF ANDS OR BUTS ABOUT IT ! See title 18 sec. 241 & 242 if you do torture, this is what you can expect from the law. Also see sec. 2441 war crimes . Eventually the US Government will have to do the right thing and bring all those involved in this criminal behavior to justice ! NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW ! Then & only then can we put this dark pain full period behind us & move forward .

Pelosi lied plain and simple. But that is a badge of honor to dems so nothing will happen move on nothing here.

THE CIA’S SECONDARY JOB IS TO LIE AND COVERUP.
QUESTIONING A SPY WILL ALWAYS GET YOU A LIE.
THAT’S WHY THEY’RE CALLED SPOOKS.
HELLO.

Pelosi stepped in it….big time!!!
She is done. The only thing she can do with any honor is to resign.
I hope she doesn’t. I hope she gets thrown out on her butt so hard she bounces. She should be striped of any power and any influence that includes being able to do anything with any political party or even donate.
No place for amnesia and liars that are nothing other than hacks. Throw her out.

I trust the security of my country to the CIA than I do with Madame Pelosi. She got caught in one of her lies this time.

Under Bushie/Cheney they all followed orders and lied. That would include the CIA, I’d suspect. In fact, it appears the CIA so called notes may not match actual meetings that allegedly took place. Former Senator Bob Graham who is a meticulous notes keeper, seems to back what Pelosi has been saying all along.
Now, does anyone really believe an operation such as the CIA wouldn’t or hasn’t stooped to stretching the truth or misleading, even Congress?

Why aren’t Harry Reid and Barney Franks defending Pelosi? They are staying as far away as they can because they know she is lying. Pelosi needs to step down.

Gingrich made a great point regarding Pelosi’s lack of honesty in a release he made on May 15. Candidly, think that she was not up to the job of Speaker from the beginning. Think the Party made a big mistake for not having selected Steny Hoyer. Think that Hoyer would have kept John Murtha more in line, along with some other poor examples of leadership. It is becoming increasingly clear that Pelosi, Murtha, and others cannot be trusted with national security — much less the coffers of taxpayer money!! That being said, be it good or be it bad, we are about to see what type of leadership is within the Democratic Party on the Hill. Basic questions that are being asked outside the beltway are: 1) How can we trust the current Speaker of the House with National Defense if issues that come before her are not politically palatable with her notions of the day? 2) How can we trust anyone when they will place their perceived political future above that of the Nation? 3) If the Speaker is willing to throw the CIA under the bus to save her own political skin, how in the world can we trust her to legislate programs that will effect/affect all citizens — such as health care, education, climate care, and reducing earmarks and other waste? The real question is: WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT THIS WOMAN TWO, REPEAT TWO HEARTBEATS AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY??I for one feel that the days of Pelosi are over — and for the good of the Country and the Democratic Party — she should be woman enough to step aside. It is very apparent that she lied, or was totally inept, or both!The opposition party will have a hay day with the ‘Party of Pelosi’ with clips of her May 14 press conference played over and over. She will not be able to blame the Bush administration for the fumble bumming of May 14!!If Robert Gibbs continues to play ‘hands off’, then they will be partly to blame over the outcome of 2010. Folks are not pleased with Nancy Pelosi — and she cannot blame Karl Rove or the Bushes for her sheer stupidity!

These libs are worse than Bush.
Posted by: Ryan
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Sorry, Bush and Cheney are poster children
for incompetence

Snarky, you do realize that “if” she lied…she lied about war crimes committed by that President and his administration don’t you? Since you’re okay with their lies then your outrage at her supposed lies is just beyond strange.

Pelosi is the biggest liar to grace the green earth since the “dark one” tempted the Savoir in the desert. Why would anyone in their right minds want Nancy to represent them when she is such a total embarrassment to all mankind?

She wants to blame anybody Cheny, Bush, CIA, anybody but herself. Either she’s deaf, stupid, telling lies, or all the above. She needs to step down, she is all about politics and not about country. We know the CIA are not a bunch of angels, but who’s worse here?

lets lock up all these evil repubs.who do they think they are torturing these great freedom fighter just trying to stop this wicked zionist imperialism from taking over the world

I have to go back on some of the left wing blogs and reread the pre-election comments on how “stupid” Sarah Palin is, how she should never be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and then come back here and read the comments defending Pelosi. It’s my comedy for the night.

If Hillary Clinton can say “I misspoke” Speaker Pelosi can say ” I missheard” Sandi