The CIA cannot seem to catch a break, especially with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi trying to weasel her way out of a sticky situation along with Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes insinuating that an investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency should take place.  Now it appears that House Democrats want to take it a step further.

They want to hold a series of hearings investigating instances in which intelligence officials may have misled members of Congress; at least part of these rumored hearings are being based on weekend reports – rumors are more like it and more than likely came from the MSM – that former Vice President Dick Cheney his information from Congress.  Here’s a couple samples for you here – both from the MSM:

• The New York Times reported on Sunday that the CIA, under the direction of Cheney, developed a secret counterterrorism program and then was directed by the vice president to conceal it from Congress.
• The Wall Street Journal first reported that the program was a classified initiative to kill or capture al Qaeda operatives. Cheney has not commented on the media reports.

I will say that the WSJ isn’t exactly a MSM outlet, but they were one of the first to report such findings.  Apparently, members of both the House and Senate Intelligence committees learned about the program last week, and CIA director Leon Panetta had ordered it terminated.  But at the same time, Panetta told both Democrats and Republicans on the Intelligence panels that Cheney had told his predecessors to hide the program from Congress – including the “Gang of Eight” House and Senate leaders and top Intelligence committee members, who are directed by law to receive regular intelligence briefings.

As a result of all of this,  Pelosi on Monday indicated that she would give the House Intelligence Committee permission to investigate incidents in which the CIA allegedly misled or lied to Congress, including times that Cheney was allegedly involved.  What this does, folks, is give the Democrats some political cover, especially Pelosi.

For those who may have forgotten, Pelosi had initially accused the CIA of not briefing her on several occasions yet provding no evidence to back her story up.  so apparently, these so-called “investigations” are her way to cover her ass while at the same time goive Congress permission to attempt to unravel anything – assuming that there is actually anything to unravel – that involved the Bush administration, including Cheney.

A pretty piss-poor attempt by Pelosi and others to use this as a distraction to make the public forget about much more important issues that are out there.  That would include our weak economy, Obama’s Socialist health care reform bill and the cap-and-trade bill.  I do not see this “investigation” involving the CIA and members of the Bush administration going too far at all.  Just a waste of time and resources, in my opinion.

The very last thing that the Central Intelligence Agency needs right now is to be ostracized by at least one Democrat – in this case House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  But Pelosi, unwittingly or not, has someone who is helping herin questioning the CIA’s ways of conducting business – one Silvestre Reyes (D-TX).

Reyes is head of the House Intelligence Committee; on Tuesday, he sent a letter to the panel’s top Republican, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), expressing concerns that he has about the agency’s truthfulness.  In the letter, Reyes says that he believes “this Committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one case) was affirmatively lied to.”

It is rather interesting – and maybe a coincidence – that there is a debate on an intelligence authorization bill on Thursday (tomorrow).  Reyes also, in an interview with FOX News, said that he was concerned about the Republicans cornering Pelosi on the interrogation issue.  No kidding Mr. Reyes.  Pelosi made an outright accusation naming the CIA, so of course the GOP is going to be after her.

And the Republicans have said as much, indicating that they intend to make Pelosi and her allegations that the CIA misled her a central part of the intelligence legislation debate.  So in essence, the letter that Reyes wrote to Hoekstra was by and large a waste of time, effort and writing paper.  I don’t think that he realizes what he got himself into here.  and as for Pelosi, I predict that she will have hell to pay for her allegations against the CIA.