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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
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My guess is that some CIA operatives fulfilled their legal obligation to communicate with certain members of Congress as the result of the oversight process. Those Congress-people probably didn't know enough or didn't care to ask the right questions. Now they're now caught in a flap over what they knew about "waterboarding" which has become the cause celeb of the media.
I guess I'm left thinking...who cares? This country has a lot bigger problems than this one. The less I hear from Nancy Pelosi, the better. And Leon Panetta ought to be left alone to supervise those practicing their spycraft in the silence and vagueness that lets the CIA work for the best interests of the American people.
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What really happens is that the Congressperson may never make the trip to Langley, and oftentimes some staffer(s) play gopher instead. How much the staffer relays back to the Congressperson varies with how interested the Congressperson is and how important the staffer wants to make him/herself out to be.
As far as Mr. Panetta is concerned, he is the epitome of the philosophy that any manager can manage anything. His knowledge of intelligence operations is equal to mine about nuclear fission (it goes "boom," right?). The internal vernacular of the intel business will have him confused on matters for quite a while.