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I just got reaction from Jamal Ware, spokesman for the Republicans on the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, to the letter that seven of their Democratic colleagues issued saying that CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded in recent, closed testimony that CIA had misled Congress since 2001 on torture. Now, I had asked Jamal whether ranking [...]

Remember how CIA Director Leon Panetta said in May that members of the House Intelligence Committee “will have to determine” whether the CIA accurately and appropriately briefed Congress about the agency’s “enhanced interrogation program”? It appears that Panetta reached a conclusion himself.
On June 26, six seven Democrats on the committee — Anna Eshoo (Calif.), John [...]

As first noticed by Marcy Wheeler this morning, former Senate intelligence committee chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.) went on the Brian Lehrer radio show and said the CIA has conceded to him that it made some errors in its account of which members of Congress were briefed and when about “enhanced interrogation techniques.” (You can hear [...]

I asked CIA spokesman George Little to respond to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charge that the CIA misled Congress about torture. Here’s his response:
“The language in the chart — ‘a description of the particular EITs that had been employed’ — is true to the language in the Agency’s records.”
The chart in question is the CIA’s [...]