is suddenly a truthtelling organization. and WTF is wrong with Panneta?

There's a pattern here. In an underreported story in 2005, Sen Bob Graham was deceived by CIA when he was whipsawed by intel briefers (Cheney's office) on warrantless wiretaps. This would add a second area of deception (bamboozlement -- what's the word?) by the White House on security issues wherein Bush/Cheney publicly asserted that "We briefed Congress about the terrorist surveillance program" and "We briefed Congress about enhanced interrogation." In both cases Congress looked like it was passively compliant (unable to be anything other, as sworn to absolute secrecy) with these two major abrogations of the Constitution (skipping fourth amendment warrants -- at least per minimal standards of FISA -- for wiretaps and breaking US and international laws against torture). In both cases the WH was misrepresenting the facts since Graham was not briefed on either program in crucial details.(Looks like Pelosi also received a less than complete briefing on warrantless wiretaps although details are sketchy in WaPo report).

Here's link to Graham's statement about his warrantless surveillance briefing (WaPo, 12-18-05), shortly after news broke about existence of the surveillance program in Dec 2005:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...

Excerpt:

Former senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who chaired the Senate intelligence committee and is the only participant thus far to describe the meetings extensively and on the record, said in interviews Friday night and yesterday that he remembers "no discussion about expanding [NSA eavesdropping] to include conversations of U.S. citizens or conversations that originated or ended in the United States" -- and no mention of the president's intent to bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

"I came out of the room with the full sense that we were dealing with a change in technology but not policy," Graham said, with new opportunities to intercept overseas calls that passed through U.S. switches. He believed eavesdropping would continue to be limited to "calls that initiated outside the United States, had a destination outside the United States but that transferred through a U.S.-based communications system." Graham said the latest disclosures suggest that the president decided to go "beyond foreign communications to using this as a pretext for listening to U.S. citizens' communications. There was no discussion of anything like that in the meeting with Cheney."

This pattern of deliberate deception in the Executive Branch briefings of Congress suggests an effort to manipulate the Legislative Branch under false pretenses to portray the Legislative Branch as being knowledgeable of intel facts ("complicit" is the word now being used) about which it was, in fact, not briefed, so that the White House could appear to be fully cooperative when, in fact, it was being deceptive to avoid legislative scrutiny. Additionally, given Sen Bob Graham's careful recording of events in his myriad notebooks, it is unlikely that he "misremembered" the contents of the briefing which apparently occurred directly from Cheney (or Cheney's office).

Over at Firedoglake, Emptywheel has compiled a list of all the problems with the CIA's briefing list.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/19/...

Funny how Graham said roughly the same thing as Pelosi but is all but ignored while Pelosi continues to face the hysteria of not only the Republicans but the media as a whole. Endlessly. I have to believe Graham because, as the most careful, precise human in the universe, He's probably make a lousy liar.

We are talking about the supposed unreliability of an organization that supplied false/faulty information that supported BushCo's invasion of Iraq.
I'm not sure anyone denies this today- and yet the conservatives attack anyone who casts doubt on the CIA.
Selective memory holes or obstructionist assholes? You make the call.