SocraticGadfly: Obama wants more CIA deception of even Congress

July 09, 2009

Obama wants more CIA deception of even Congress

Even as Congressional Democrats complain the CIA has deceived Congress for years, even producing a letter by CIA director Leon Panetta as evidence, President Barack Obama threatens to veto the pending Intelligence Authorization Bill if it keeps a provision expanding information about covert actions to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees, rather than the “Gang of Eight” — the party leaders of both houses of Congress and the two Intelligence Committees.

Why? The usual Obama suspects. State secrets and executive privilege.

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