“We cannot have a community that operates outside the law and covers up what it does and lies to Congress.”

This was said by Rep. Peter Hoekstra (Republican) about an incident where a plane carrying missionaries was shot down.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2008/11/post_24.html

John Boner recently said on CNN….

“Pete Hoekstra did say that, and the inspector general at the CIA did an investigation, and it became clear that some CIA operatives did in fact cover this up.”

We also know that former CIA Richard Helms was convicted in 1977 for lying to congress.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=05&year=2009&base_name=the_cia_lie_to_congress_its_ha

I think we would all be better off to understand that the CIA exists to lie. Pelosi may be lying herself, but looking at past evidence this whole situation is not nearly as clear cut as either side would like to claim it is.

And not to mention that it was only a few years ago that republicans were accusing the CIA of sabotaging the Bush administration for things like the Iran nuclear memos etc.

“[The NIE] is so professionally unworthy, so intellectually indefensible and so fundamentally misleading that it is damaging to our national security.

The NIE appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the policies of President Bush by members of his own government by suggesting that Iran no longer poses a serious threat to U.S. national security because we apparently have credible reports that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.”

That was Newt Gingrich

The CIA either lies or it doesn’t, but is sure looks like the former over the latter.