Enough with the phony indignation about the current Pelosi situation-- the CIA has a long history of lying to Congress. In 2001, a plane carrying Baptist missionaries from Michigan was shot down in Peru as part of a drug interdiction program run by the CIA and Peruvian officials. The victims' cause was taken up by Republican lawmakers, and an ensuing internal CIA investigation "concluded that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors" about the incident.
New questions surfaced Wednesday about the accuracy of a CIA document meant to settle who in Congress knew about the torture approved by the Bush administration.
Another Democratic lawmaker--former Sen. Bob Graham--was listed as having been briefed four times. When Graham--a famously meticulous diarist--told the CIA that he was actually only briefed once, they agreed and corrected their records.
Even House Republican Leader John Boehner has now been forced to concede that the CIA has lied to Congress.
And finally, Time magazine has already concluded that Pelosi was right-- detailing how Porter Goss is already equivocating on his previous statements, how Senator Shelby is backing Pelosi's version, and how even CIA Director Leon Panetta is now saying that we shouldn't trust the CIA's records.
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