Here’s more dust in your eyes
Maybe it’s not dust in the eyes, but spaghetti against the wall hoping something believable will stick.
First House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said the CIA outright lied in one case.
“These notifications have led me to conclude that this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one case) was affirmatively lied to,” Reyes wrote to Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the committee’s senior Republican. A copy of his letter was obtained by The Associated Press.
Reyes said in the letter that he is considering opening a full investigation.
Ranking Republican on the committee, Rep. Peter Hoekstra fired back on the CBS Today Show;
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said the flap between Democrats and CIA Director Leon Panetta over whether the intelligence agency lied to lawmakers is “bizarre” and shows the Democrats lack leadership.
“[Republicans are] just kind of sitting on the sidelines. We’re trying to focus on national security policy, national security issues, and the Democrats, from my perspective, are looking for some adult supervision. There’s no leadership here at all. … This is very, very bizarre,” Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra said on CBS’ “The Early Show” Thursday.
Hoekstra fills in more of the weird details on The Mark Levin Radio Show Thursday;
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Maybe people have forgotten this
bk (Diary) Friday, July 10th at 8:23AM EST (link)but Silvestre Reyes isn’t exactly the smartest member of the House.
Pelosi made a fool of herself-for the 100th time
Scope (Diary) Friday, July 10th at 8:25AM EST (link)When I heard about the letter, signed by 7 Democrats, slipped under Hoekstra’s door, not even on official letterhead, I immediately thought that Pelosi was behind the move. When she originally said that the CIA lied to her, Boehner immediately asked her to prove it, and she couldn’t. She was humiliated, and you don’t humiliate the Queen Speaker. There was talk at the time of investigating Pelosi, but of course Dems never allow investigating their own. They only investigate anything Bush, or the Bush Administration. Pelosi and the Seven Dwarfs should have allowed sleeping dogs to lay, as they are now bringing the issue to battle point with the CIA, and that’s one battle they cannot win.
It is unbelievable the stuff they are getting away with at this point
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, July 10th at 11:57AM EST (link)A little press sunshine, just a crack of it, would (a) result in a whole bunch of those buggerers getting expelled and/or sent to jail, and (b) put an end to about 80% of the foolishness going on in both committees and the floor of the House.
But this is just item 2,827 in the list of ways in which the majority media have utterly, completely abdicated their constitutionally protected “government watchdog” role.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Unintelligence Committee
lukematthews (Diary) Friday, July 10th at 7:51PM EST (link)Unfortunately, merely putting Democrats in charge of a committee on Intelligence is a paradox. Fancy Pelosi is so busy trying to squeak out of the corner she painted herself in, she has no regard for the welfare of the country. I can’t say I’m terribly surprised their more concerned with hiding her stupidity than they are at running the country, but I’d think they would have at least tried to make it less obvious.