imo, the rethugs are trying to put lipstick on a pig that they'll own if this goes forward.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/republicans-who-say-cia-secret-program-story-is-good-for-gop-wont-support-probe/Republicans Who Say CIA Secret Program Story Is Good For GOP Won’t Support Probe
If you believe the Politico, Republicans are very, very psyched about the media’s heavy focus on that secret Cheney-authorized program that the CIA concealed from Congress, because it’s really bad politically for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
Republicans claim that House Dems who are mulling an investigation into the secret CIA program, like Intel committee chair Silvestre Reyes, are helping the GOP paint Pelosi and Dems as weak on terror. As a spokesman for GOP leader John Boehner put it: “The speaker’s liberal allies are keeping her accusations against the CIA front and center.”
This raises the question:
If keeping these allegations in the news is so good for Republicans, why don’t they want a probe of the program?If the House did launch an investigation into the CIA’s secret program, of course, the media attention to this story would ratchet up exponentially. Yet Republicans mysteriously don’t support any such efforts. Boehner spokesperson Michael Steel declined to answer directly when I asked him if the Congressman would back an investigation. Meanwhile, GOP Rep Pete Hoekstra was similarly dismissive: “I don’t have to revisit these things.”
It’s possible that Republicans secretly think a probe would be bad for Dems and want it to look like Dems instigated it. Or maybe the GOP claim that revelations about Bush-Cheney-era CIA deception are really good for Republicans deserve a tad more skepticism.