RSSOfficial: CIA Didn’t Inform Congress About Some Activities
From: Fox News | October 27, 2009
A senior intelligence official conceded Tuesday that the spy agency has failed to fully inform Congress about some of its spying activities.
Congress is probing what some Democratic lawmakers argue are failures by the Bush administration’s CIA to tell Congress what it is doing.
Robert Litt is chief counsel for the Director of National Intelligence. He testified before the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday that the spies didn’t tell Congress about a small number of operations. But Litt says the CIA has now corrected those omissions and is now informing Congress of its espionage.
The law requires the intelligence services to brief Congress about certain types of missions it undertakes.
Litt did not discuss what sorts of activities the agency failed to disclose to lawmakers.
CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano told Fox in a statement, “It is the policy of the Central Intelligence Agency to be clear and candid with the United States Congress. Director Panetta has made a relationship of trust, confidence, and respect a top priority.”
The House Intelligence Committee launched a probe over the summer after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) exclaimed at a contentious May press conference that the CIA “lied” to her about using advanced interrogation techniques on detainees.
Democrats on the House Intelligence panel say there as many as five episodes where Congress was kept in the dark. CIA Director Leon Panetta told the committee in June that it failed to alert Congress about a program targeting leaders of Al Qaeda.
Some Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, including ranking member Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), argue that the inquiry is politically motivated and is an effort to shield Pelosi from criticism after her allegation that the CIA failed to tell her the truth.
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