[UPDATED] Six Seven Members of Congress Say Panetta Testified That CIA Misled Congress

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 More…

The New Intelligence Regime: No Biased Intel, No Torture, ‘No Exceptions’

More important than anything Director of National Intelligence-nominee Dennis Blair and CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta said at their rollout this morning — it’s a rollout, after all, so you’re not getting anything controversial — were two things President-elect Barack Obama said that directly repudiate the intelligence regime of the previous More…

Rush Holt Is Pro-Panetta

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might be hating on Leon Panetta, but Rep. Rush Holt, the progressive New Jersey congressman who chairs the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, just put out this statement welcoming Panetta’s impending nomination to head the CIA:

Rush Holt on Torture

Something that kind-of-sort-of-not-really-but-close-enough ties into Daphne’s post about Obama and Guantanamo: Rush Holt, the New Jersey Democratic congressman who’s become increasingly influential on intelligence and interrogation issues, has urged Obama to issue an executive order upon being sworn in banning torture across all government agencies (hint, hint, CIA). More…