But it's official now. The CIA lied to Congress consistently during the Bush years.
Republicans will assert that this is a "Democrat" quibble -- a "partisan witchhunt." The president, evidently, agrees with Republicans.
Obama, in an effort to insure that cover-ups are "bipartisan", has said he will "veto the pending Intelligence Authorization Bill if it included a provision that would allow information about covert actions to be given to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees, rather than the so-called Gang of Eight — the Democratic and Republican leaders of both houses of Congress and the two Intelligence Committees." The White House statement goes on to say that "the proposed expansion of briefings would undermine 'a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters.'"
Back to square one. In fact it's beginning to look as though "back to square one" is the discouraging response of the Obama administration, whether it comes to rescuing the economy (insufficient stimulus money working too slowly if at all) or rescuing the truth and the honor of a depressed nation (allowing the Bush administration's law-breaking to go unchallenged).
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