Ex-CIA agent: ‘What is it that they know and when did they know it?’
Published: July 9, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Former Central Intelligence agent Jack Rice is highly skeptical of his one-time employer’s honesty, and he is not afraid to forcefully air his doubts.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about new Congressional testimony indicating that CIA briefer deceived Congress repeatedly since 2001, Rice dredged up a staple question of Washington, D.C. journalism: “What is it that they know and when did they know it?”
His Wednesday night interview came on the legs of a letter by seven House Democrats who claimed CIA Director Leon Panetta’s disclosure in secret testimony that the agency had “affirmatively lied” to Congress on a number of “significant operations” over the last eight years.
The subject of those lies has yet to be disclosed and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) has threatened to launch an investigation. The CIA believes the testimony does not contradict Panetta’s prior statement that it is not the agency’s “practice or policy” to mislead Congress, even though it reportedly has.
“If they actually, purposefully lied here, the next piece of this investigation — I’m thinking about this as a former prosecutor, now — I want to know, was it one briefer who just screwed up?” Rice incredulously asked. “Was it the CIA who drove them to screw up? Or was it the White House who drove the CIA to tell the briefer to screw up? … That’s the real question now.”
He added that members of Congress who had every lawful reason to expect to be given classified intelligence should be upset that the agency withheld information.
“What is it that they know –” Rice began. “I hate to come back with the old cliche’ — and when did they know it?”
This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast July 9, 2009.
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The CIA lies to Congress constantly. It has to, because if a fraction of the CIA’s crimes were reported to Congress, the CIA wouldn’t be able to keep it out of the papers. Massive drug smuggling, terrorism, murder, torture–the CIA does these things daily. It’s only the control the CIA has over the US media (Google “the Mighty Wurlitzer”) and government (blackmail, extortion, fellow criminals) that prevents it from being destroyed by outraged Americans.
Keep pounding the CIA like Grant pounded Vicksburg.
We MUST have the truth, and I don’t care who in the CIA we have to waterboard in order to get it.
Like pounding heads against the walls,,smashing skulls,,that’s what they talked about,,
Other things too..
…and they offed Kennedy
The CIA is George H.W Bush’s private army.
George HW Bush is a Zionist psychopath and an idiot.
To expect the CIA to not lie to you, is like expecting Timothy Mcveigh to be a perfect little angel & sell cotton candy to displaced children…..
When the CIA’s lips are moving & often the Mossad too, that means it’s lying.
Private industrial army….for the big bankers is all they are.
The solution is simple, just don’t appropriate any money for the CIA. There’s no constitutional requirement for them to exist, so just quit giving them tax doallrs. They’ll last on their illegal money for a while, but w/o tax dollars, they’ll prove to be a pretty inept cartel.
What does anyone know on this subject; it is all classified. Secrecy is the enemy of democracy.
“What is out there that we do not know about?” The truth.
So far two agencies are on my mind, as the most corrupt and secret that use public money at huge unknown rates besides being unaccountable. They are the CIA, and the Federal Reserve. But I submit to America, ladies and gentlemen a host of agencies have been operating with intent to promote political agendas rather than serve ‘We the People.”
We the people have the right to know, especially if decisions or Judegments have been made these past decades, especially this past administration of George Bush’s, shows the folly of insider operations, unreported yet widely known even to the main stream media, but kept out of the news.
In both cases< CIA and Federal Reserve, it is known that trillions of American tax dollars these past decades are used for personal gain in secret deals both by the CIA and the Federal Reserve. Lets just set aside military spending, my last look has shown that the pentagon can not account for at least a trillion dollars. That is another unreported story by our infamous Mainstream Media cable new CNN, FOX, MSNBC all complicit and embedded in this war profiteering.
Far too many secret operations are motivated by personal or corporate gain rather than national security reason. From my view most have been the premier reason for CIA, NSA, FBI, and especially the Treasury, World bank, International Monetary Fund, along with special Congressional and Senate Committees have with intent to promote American Business in secret manipulating foreign private and political concerns. As one of the commenter’s here in this blog have recognized some actions as out right murder to push agendas. Look at the people on television, they brought here to this point of unconscionable corruption.
Of course this all accumulates to a world money game play thing. When all of this stuff is backed up by the American tax dollar. With the current results of the “Derivative disaster” trillions of contract dollars are involved . Now from my view the big bank derivative players should just go bust, no more money to these game players.
The party is over. It is ludicrous to absolutely insane to believe an insurance company in America is too big to fail. But this is my point of the total sham Americans faces today. Look at the oxy moron definition of it all, the contradiction, the hypocrisy, the totally inconsistent theme that in a free open market all of a sudden America is told that “The Largest” insurance company will fail in the final hour of the Bush administration. Hold on, we the people can’t let it fail. Its like that should be a secret?
My point is no one is being indicted no one is going to jail for the biggest stock market swindle were hundreds of billions of tax dollars disappeared into corporate pockets. Not mine or yours. Please from my view the Madoff scandal does not account for the trillions in pilfered cash that went to well connect political and corporate friends.
Obama said transparency is or will be a core new moment turning a page in history, well so far we have a lot of black out space. By the fall Obama and his Attorney General should be able to indict and convict legions of politicians and corporate people we know are guilty of crimes, especially torture. If not it is time for a change.
Astute, thorough and lengthy. Try editing your piece by going over it and removing the verb “to be” in all its forms. Search for more active, more concise verbs. Then work the cadence a little more. See where it takes you.
Rothchild’s MK Ultra Victim,,storage for there evil..
Apparently the Kabbalah gang really wanted the Iran currency etched/scarred in my memory,,
Many decades ago too…
I hate beets,,I really, really,really hate beats,,,
But I love the soup called BORSCHT,,,beet soup…
This does really show the power of MK Ultra,,,
We had to scar the DEUTSCHE Banks..oh yes,,
Your rape scene around telling me to douche on the Yahoo Stock Market Message board…
We had to have the Deutsche banks front and center in the memory bank,,
I hope I have the attention of doctors and scientists,,
I noticed after April 2001 time frame,,,a little before that, I didn’t need to use deodorant any more,,,I didn’t have body odor,,
I had to start using it again,,
This is funny,,it goes against logic,,
That time frame was the most stressful in my life…
This technology also messes with your hair growth on your entire body..
That’s normal again now too…
Then sometimes your eyes have uncontrolled watery eyes,,
It’s like your eye has seizures and your vision,,it’s blurry,,
Part of your vision is clear and part is blurry…very odd…
I took my bath and I was thinking about Fort Knox,,I forgot what it was,,
Is this hackneyed iambic pentameter part of the NWO? Sounds like Newt Gengrich and Grover Norquist after eating soylent green and trying to score weed.