According to a 26 June letter to CIA director Leon Panetta from Democrats on
the House Intelligence Committee, Mr Panetta has admitted to the Committee
that the CIA has for the past eight years misled Congress about intelligence
activities which remain secret from the public and even from most members of
Congress.  Given this latest confirmation of Bush-era executive abuses, how
can you continue to justify your threat to veto the pending Intelligence
Authorization Bill if it were to include a provision allowing details of covert
actions to be given to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees?
It is precisely the practice of restricting intelligence briefings that has
allowed CIA abuses to stay in the closet for so many years.  Your veto threat
is unconscionable.  Reverse it.