According to CIA Director Leon Panetta, the CIA has been lying to congress about significant actions since 2001.
What those actions are has not yet been revealed.
But this news comes out the day before the House discusses a measure that would increase the number of people in Congress who must be notified of covert intelligence operations from the current 8 to more than 35.
The White House opposes the bill.
Given how poorly these 8 members have been doing currently, I’m inclined to support the idea of expanding the number of congresspeople who must be informed of CIA operations. Makes it harder to hide bad operations under a few members of congress.
I’m wonder what the “significant actions” have been. It would be purely speculation, but it might be that the amount of torture and rendition and so on has been far worse than reported even now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090709/pl_bloomberg/avp991mwyfpe
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