Rush Holt: "Congress was being misled" by CIA

By GottaLaff

Andrea Mitchell is interviewing Anna Eshoo and Rush Holt right now on MSNBC, re: the CIA lying/withholding information from Congress. Liveblogging:

Rush Holt: There's no question that Congress was being misled... Pattern that's gone on for a long time, not just this issue, but others.... infringing on liberties.

Anna: If we don't get the proper information, how can we conduct our oversight... shape policy based on that information.

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Holt: You're getting into what this is about. You said earlier that the relationship between Nancy Pelosi and Leon Panetta is the bigger issue... NO, it's the smaller issue. The bigger issue is how well-examined is the CIA? Oversight... A principle point will be the degree to which the CIA keeps Congress informed about what they are doing.

This is exactly on point with the Lt. Col. Wingard/Fayiz al-Kandari series that I've been posting about. The media is distracted by waterboarding, and the word "torture". The issue is really everything else the CIA was doing, and Fayiz's story represents that.

If you are not convinced by my posts, read Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side.