Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Terrifying Comments From Pelosi On the CIA

For a former speaker of the house/current house minority leader to say this out loud is shocking:
“I salute Sen. Feinstein,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference of the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I’ll tell you, you take on the intelligence community, you’re a person of courage, and she does not do that lightly. Not without evidence, and when I say evidence, documentation of what it is that she is putting forth.”

Pelosi added that she has always fought for checks and balances on CIA activity and its interactions with Congress: “You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth."
“You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth."

She isn't talking about her electoral opponents, she is talking about an agency that works for her, and reports to an elected government. Holy crap.

1 comment:

  1. I'm with you about this being horrifying, but at the same time I'm breaking out my tiny violin. It was fine when the CIA and NSA spy on US citizens, freely elected leaders of independent nations, etc, but best not look too close at Congress, or everyone will know what little oversight they have on these institutions. It feels like some Orwellian nightmare.

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