'Individuals who ordered that Congress be kept in the dark should be held accountable'
Calls for 'thorough investigation'...
By Brad Friedman on 7/13/2009, 11:33am PT  

Just in from Senator Feingold (D-WI), on the weekend news, that "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," according to CIA Director Leon Panetta...

Statement of Senator Russ Feingold
On the Program Terminated by CIA Director Leon Panetta

"The failure to notify the congressional intelligence committees of the program prior to last month was a violation of the National Security Act and individuals who ordered that Congress be kept in the dark should be held accountable. I also have deep concerns about the program itself and have conveyed those concerns, along with a request for a thorough investigation, in a classified letter to the president."

Senator Feingold is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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