Fw: News Alert: Cheney Is Linked to C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program

[Mark Kohut]

As Pynchon always knew, so to extend.............

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com> wrote:

> From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com>
> Subject: News Alert: Cheney Is Linked to C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program
> To: markekohut at YAHOO.COM
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 4:54 PM
> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 4:53 PM ET
> -----
> 
> Cheney Is Linked to C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program
> 
> 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,
> the
> agency's director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate
> and
> House intelligence committees, two people with direct
> knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
> 
> The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to
> conceal
> the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the
> mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush
> administration had put a high priority on the program and
> its
> secrecy.
> 
> Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned
> of
> its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the
> two
> intelligence committees about it in separate closed
> sessions
> the next day.
> 
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