Who did not know the CIA was withholding information?

Are you shocked to hear that the CIA withheld information from Members of Congress and the Public after 9/11? Well, given the atmosphere in the Whitehouse and Washington to protect certain data and programs as America went to war I do believe that history will show that the CIA was told to keep tight lipped and avoid leaks at all costs. So how is it that the Democratic and Republicans of today seem shocked to hear that they were not told everything when even the lead up to the War in Iraq left both sides without all the necessary data to make an informed decision before the 2002 Election. And why I will not defend such actions from the CIA or close the eyes to the fact that Congress did not ask the necessary questions to hold the Whitehouse accountable over the last 8 years. Old enough to remember the Late 60’s and Early 70’s and the mess that America was in when it finally released that the CIA was spying on its own citizens I do wonder about the timing of this latest uncovering of supposed misconduct. I have to ask who did not know the CIA was withholding information.

However, now that Congress and the Public has been told that from 2001 the CIA did have a program that may have kept certain data from being compromised by remaining silent I do believe the Politically Correct thing to do is to have the House and Senate Committees start public hearings and waste millions of dollars “We the People” do not have. Since if the Republicans are going to score political points showing the Speaker of the House lied about not being informed (an almost impossible case to make) than the American Public are going to have to air secret information that could jeopardize our national security.

And though I agree Congress needs to look into the problems caused by a system failure to follow the Rules and Procedures of Law, given the nature of the business and ones’ inability to openly comment on the facts I do believe that the Committees time would be better spent if all parties worked on a solution that would properly teach its members how to ask the CIA what they know. For Public Hearings or behind Closed Doors, I do wonder if even the Chairpersons over the last 8 years even thought to ask the CIA any questions on the information that was supposed to have been withheld from Congress. Since I do not remember hearing one question asking for any information available that Iraq did not have WMD’s before given President Bush unfettered power to take America to war in 2002.

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