Saturday, July 11, 2009
SCOTT SHANE. The New York Times,
SCOTT SHANE. The New York Times,
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
In the eight years of his vice presidency, Mr. Cheney was the Bush administration’s most vehement defender of the secrecy of government activities, particularly in the intelligence arena. He went to the Supreme Court to keep secret the advisers to his task force on energy, and won.
CIA Director, Leon E. Panetta, ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23.
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