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The House Intelligence Committee said Friday it will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress promptly about a secret program to deploy teams of killers to target al-Qaida leaders.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a "very serious" covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she was aware a few years ago that Rep. Jane Harman had been overheard on a government wiretap.
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday.
The CIA withheld information from the White House, Justice Department and Congress about the 2001 shooting down of a plane over Peru carrying an American missionary family, part of a yearslong cover-up of lethal violations in U.S. drug-interdiction procedures, according to a classified internal CIA report.
The House Intelligence Committee chairman expects a compromise soon on renewal of an eavesdropping law that could provide legal protections for telecommunications companies as President Bush has insisted.
The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said. "It appears he hadn't gotten authority from anyone," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich. on Wednesdau, speaking to reporters after the first day of closed testimony in the committee's investigation. "It appears he got direction to make sure the tapes were not destroyed."
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned in a 2003 letter that destroying videotapes of terrorist interrogations would put the CIA under a cloud of suspicion, according to a newly declassified copy of the letter.
The CIA said Wednesday it would begin handing over documents to Congress about the destruction of videotapings showing the harsh interrogation of two terror suspects after the House Intelligence Committee threatened to subpoena two agency officials.
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee defied the Bush administration Sunday and pledged to investigate the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.
The House Intelligence Committee has summoned the CIA official who ordered the destruction of interrogation videotapes, launching what will likely be several months of hearings.
The CIA failed to fully inform Congress that it was videotaping the harsh interrogations of terrorist suspects and that it destroyed the tapes in 2005, the bipartisan leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday.
A Border Patrol agent-turned-congressman will take over as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee next month, pledging to keep a closer eye on the nation's spy agencies and the Bush administration.
Democrats say the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee had no grounds to suspend a staff member who's come under scrutiny for the leak of a secret intelligence assessment.
A nuclear test by North Korea could encourage Japan, Taiwan and possibly South Korea to initiate their own nuclear programs in the already unsettled region, according to a report by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee.
The government is classifying too many documents confiscated since the 2003 Iraq invasion that might help rewrite the history on Saddam Hussein's rule, the House Intelligence Committee's Republican chairman said Tuesday.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday he's not surprised by allegations of prostitution in the corruption case involving former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a former committee member.
House launches investigation into CIA program | Politics | ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Intelligence Committee said on Friday it was launching a formal investigation into the concealment of a secret CIA program from Congress that one senator said was withheld on orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
House lays groundwork for CIA probe - Yahoo! NewsBy PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer – 45 mins ago WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday.
Congress Authorized CIA to Develop Secret Al Qaeda Plan, Former Official Says. Monday, July 13, 2009 Congress originally authorized the CIA to develop the secret counterterrorism program that is now drawing fierce criticism from House Democrats who say they were kept in the dark all along, a former senior intelligence official told FOX News on Monday.
Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute - washingtonpost.comexcerpt: ""Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E.
House Chairman Says CIA Lied to LawmakersHouse Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes has suggested Republicans would be well advised to avoid politicizing the intelligence authorizaton bill later this week in light of evidence that, he says, shows that the CIA "affirmatively lied to" the panel.
An Open Letter to America from Nancy Pelosi. By Jim Byrd. May 21, 2009Dear Fellow Americans–
The Politics of Fear: Reps John Boehner and Pete Hoekstra produce video with Bush era tacticsAre you scared yet, America?
CIA 'lied' over fatal attack on missionary planeFOR Jim and Veronica Bowers and their two small children, the flight up the Amazon in a single-engined Cessna float plane should have been a routine return to the remote house-boat where the family lived during missionary work with Indian tribes.
Lawmaker Accuses CIA of CoverupA classified CIA report shows the agency operated a drug interdiction program outside of the law and that officials lied to Congress in an attempt to cover it up, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday.
CIA in 2003 Planned Destruction of Tapes: Congresswoman Argued Against the MoveRep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) recommendation to then-CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller that the tapes not be destroyed was reported earlier.
CIA Man Says He Can "Take Down The White House Over...Torture Cover-up Scandal"Former head of the CIA's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal. Rodriguez said he may testify before the House Intelligence Committee if he is granted immunity from prosecution, The Sunday Times reported.
Justice Dept. Seeks Delay on C.I.A. Inquiry WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented "significant risks" to its own prelim …
Bill on Contractor Liability Raises Intel Agency ConcernsLast week the House of Representatives passed a bill to extend federal legal jurisdiction to crimes committed abroad by U.S. contractors in war zones such as Iraq, so that such crimes could be prosecuted in U.S. courts.
Democrats Halt Move to Revamp Spying LawsThe Bush Administration has been pushing hard for changes to the nation's eavesdropping laws, despite the ongoing controversy over the its decision to secretly bypass that law with its warrantless wiretapping and data-mining of Americans' phone calls and internet usage.
Congress discovers spine, starts examining NSA surveillanceSilvestre Reyes (D-TX), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, this week announced his intention to hold hearings that will probe the extent of the cooperation between telephone companies and the NSA.
House Intelligence Committee to Probe Telcos Involvement in Domestic SpyingA powerful House committee is responding to a call from the nation's top intelligence official to loosen spying rules and to free the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of illegally helping the government spy on Americans by holding a series of hearing in June examinin …
Spy Chief Backs Study of Impact of Warming Stepping into the middle of a partisan debate on Capitol Hill, the United States' top intelligence official has endorsed a comprehensive study by spy agencies about the impact of global warming on national security.
Congress Not Told of Covert Action, Committee ComplainsUS intelligence recently undertook a "significant" covert action without notifying Congress, as required by law, the House Intelligence Committee disclosed in a new report on the 2008 intelligence authorization bill.
Justin Raimondo: AIPAC on TrialIs there a First Amendment right to engage in espionage? Dorothy Rabinowitz seems to think so.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Bush's Shadow ArmyBlackwater's mercenary corps has become a secret army that places itself above the law, but the tables may be turning now, with an investigation into their activities by the House Intelligence Committee and a wrongful death suit by the survivors of four employees.
Case shines light on how war contracts are awardedWhen Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes heard that the United States was going to go to war with Iraq, he was ecstatic, say several former colleagues.
House Intelligence Committee Members Need a Crash Course on al QaedaForty years ago, Sgt. Silvestre Reyes was a helicopter crew chief flying dangerous combat missions in South Vietnam from the top of a soaring rocky outcrop near the sea called Marble Mountain.
Pelosi Won't Pick Tainted Lawmaker for Key Post - New York TimesIncoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated she will pass over Alcee Hastings for Intelligence Committee Chair. Hastings was involved in an ethics scandal that resulted in his removal from a Judgeship, but in which he was ultimately acquitted.
Alcee Hastings, Bribery, and the House Intelligence CommitteeEighteen years ago, Democratic Rep. John Conyers came to believe that Alcee Hastings, at the time a federal judge in Florida, was guilty of impeachable offenses.
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