{"id":7298,"date":"2009-07-13T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2009-07-13T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:35:07","slug":"feingold-on-cheneys-secret-cia-program-failure-to-notify-congress-a-violation-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7298","title":{"rendered":"Feingold on Cheney&#8217;s Secret CIA Program: Failure to Notify Congress a Violation of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RussFeingold_Sits.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Just in from Senator Feingold (D-WI), on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/us\/politics\/12intel.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=cheney%20cia&#038;st=cse\">weekend news<\/a>, that &#8220;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,&#8221; according to CIA Director Leon Panetta&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"document\"><center><b>Statement of Senator Russ Feingold<\/b><br \/>\n<i>On the Program Terminated by CIA Director Leon Panetta<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><i>Senator Feingold is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.<br \/>\n###<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from Senator Feingold (D-WI), on the weekend news, that &#8220;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,&#8221; according to CIA Director Leon Panetta&#8230; Statement of Senator Russ Feingold On the Program Terminated by CIA Director Leon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,55,64,212,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-cia","category-dick-cheney","category-russ-feingold","category-us-house","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}