The CIA briefed top Democrats and Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees more than 30 times about enhanced interrogation techniques, according to intelligence sources who said the lawmakers tacitly approved the techniques that some Democrats in Congress now say should land Bush administration officials in jail.
Between 2002 and 2006, the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees “each got complete, benchmark briefings on the program,” said one of the intelligence sources who is familiar with the briefings.
Seeking the facts about congressional approval, Mr. Hoekstra, the ranking member of the House committee, sent a letter Monday asking National Intelligence Director Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, to provide an unclassified list of the dates, locations and names of all members of Congress who were briefed on the techniques.
The democrats might be best off not to open this investigation as they could have kill this program instead of approving of it by doing nothing! If Obama goes on with this it will be his down fall!
LINKS:
(1) YOU DECIDE: Did the CIA Interrogations Work?
(2) Memo release puts Obama in political bind By arturoafc54
(3) Enhanced Interrogation Doesn’t Work…Except When It Does
