The CIA Flap and Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House has accused the CIA of misleading her-in fact, lying to Congress and the intelligence oversight process. Then Ms. Pelosi flip-flopped and said the CIA has only mislead the Congress during the Bush years. If you review her actual statements, she said " the CIA misleads us all the time."
The Republicans are using this to embarrass her and the administration.In actual fact, most Democrats don't like the CIA. Just ask Senators Leahy, Kennedy, Dodd, Kerry, and a host of others that loathe the CIA.
The CIA was always regarded as "the bad boys" of government, a term coined backed in the 1950's . During the Church hearings in the 1970's certain abuses were leveled at the CIA regarding assassinations, dirty tricks and not informing Congress of its activities. Since Frank Church and Otis Pike held hearings tremendous oversight has been put on the CIA. I wrote about it in my history of the CIA. Today theremany committees, the President's Oversight Board, PFIAB, internal controls and Senate and House staffers that monitor almost all CIA activities including covert action.Both the House and Senate have committees that must approve each clandestine activity. So do the host of lawyers inside the CIA. In addition private watchdog groups have been set up and they constantly litigate againt the CIA as well as deluge the government with Freedom of Information requests. Thats why in fact most of the CIA has been defanged and is often ineffective.Today the CIA has to fight two battles-one against terrorism and one against our own governmnet leaders. To be sure Ms Pelosi is nothing but a leftist spawn, but worse she's stupid!. She damages the effectiveness of intelligence as well as embarrasses the nation by calling the CIA liars. The CIA staffers document every meeting and also probably tapes the meetings. It is Ms. Pelosi that is the liar.