Specter defends Pelosi, questions CIA's honesty

[babylonsister]

Specter defends Pelosi, questions CIA's honesty
By Reid Wilson
Posted: 05/20/09 03:10 PM


Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) took the opportunity Wednesday to defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has come under fire in recent weeks over a controversy surrounding when she was told of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques being used by the CIA.

"The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say 'candid'; that's too mild — to honesty," Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law Institute. He cited misleading information about the agency's involvement in mining harbors in Nicaragua and the Iran-Contra affair.

"Director {Leon} Panetta says the agency does not make it a habit to misinform Congress. I believe that is true. It is not the policy of the Central Intelligence Agency to misinform Congress," Specter said. "But that doesn't mean that they're all giving out the information."

Because of leaks that have come from Congress, Specter said, he understands the agency's hesitancy to disclose all its information.

"The current controversy involving Speaker Pelosi and the CIA is very unfortunate, in my opinion, because it politicizes the issue and it takes away attention from ... how does the Congress get accurate information from the CIA?" Specter said. "For political gain, people are making headlines."

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/new-dem-specter-defends-pelosi-questions-cias-honesty-2009-05-20.html

[spanone]

1. Kicked AND Recommended

[WeDidIt]

2. I knew it! I knew on December 12, 2000 we had entered Bizzaro World

Specter defends Pelosi.

Next thing you know Lex Luther will be the good guy and Superman will be the bad guy.

[EFerrari]

4. Specter does this kind of easy stuff all the time.

Don't ever count on him to keep to this position in the clutch. He folds like a cheap suit every time.

[babylonsister]

12. Yes, that's his MO, so I'm not expecting much myself. nt

[Soylent Brice]

3. wow. REALLY?

:crazy:

finally doing something for the dems.

[spanone]

5. .

[solara]

6. Kick-a-roo

:kick:

:patriot:

[Jennicut]

7. Well, at least some Dems are defending her, even if its a Repub turned Dem

for the sole purpose of winning an election.

[appleannie1]

8. Specter is from my state. Occasionally he does the right thing, but

he has a tendancy to say one thing and vote another. 100 times better than Santorum but can't hold a candle to Casey.

[Ilsa]

9. And I'd like to see Sen. Bob Graham's journal entries on this, and

Rockefeller's, Obey's and anyone else with a documented record of when the CIA rovided information and to whom. Speaker Pelosi has a few people coming out to speak for her on this.

[burning rain]

10. He's starting his election-year loyalty dance....

well familiar to our state's Republicans. Still though, it's welcome, and pretty good by his crappy standards, as he's a big neo-con and a warmonger.

[democracy1st]

11. K & R

[Gabi Hayes]

13. fuck him......always and forever:

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[Laelth]

14. That's rich.

I appreciate that he's acting like he's actually on our side, but the man who crafted one of the greatest lies in American history (the magic bullet theory), for the benefit of the CIA, has no moral authority to accuse anyone of lying, although, when it's comes to CIA lies, he ought to be fully versed on the subject.

:dem:

-Laelth