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Wilkerson On CIA: "There's A Bent To The Way They're Briefing"
Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA mislead her in torture briefings has received support from a new source: Larry Wilkerson, the retired US Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Colin Powell.
Wilkerson told TPMmuckraker that he's been present for similar CIA briefings, and that the agency briefs only "very limitedly," and "very selectively."
"There's a bent to the way they're briefing," said Wilkerson. "They've got an angle."
Asked what that angle would have been in Pelosi's case, Wilkerson said the CIA would likely have presented the information as: "These are the things that were considering under this program," rather than, this is what we've done.
When we pointed out to Wilkerson that if that was the case then the CIA went beyond briefing Pelosi selectively, and in fact outright lied to her, Wilkerson expressed surprise that anyone would find such a scenario hard to believe.
Presumably, he forgot that, as Republicans know, the CIA doesn't lie.

















Seems that the CIA, which is never been known for it's high standards, is still largely a bushco operation.
May 15, 2009 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
A "bent" - an "angle" - hmmmmm.... And repubs were in charge of it at the time!
Torture porn. It was only for the repub consumption.
May 15, 2009 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is surprising that anyone would be amazed to hear that Congress was jerked around in the years 2002-04 ...
It would be amazing to learn that Congress was given any straight information by the previous administration.
May 15, 2009 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
His "bent" is pathetic and meaningless. It simply restates Pelosi's point. It doesn't inform or give perspective. Waste of an article.
It is quite likely that the CIA did not lie but that Pelosi was not fully briefed and thus in effect misled, exactly as she has very clearly said. Why make more of it than that?
May 15, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The CIA never lies... unless they are engaged in conspiring to off a sitting President and his brother and silence other leading Liberal voices.
Just sayin'.
May 18, 2009 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink