Cheney Again Implicated In Falsifying Data

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Former US Vice-President under the Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, is again implicated in the falsification of data, documents, and information with regard to the counter-terrorism programs instituted in the US following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The New York Times today disclosed that their investigation had obtained information from two unidentified sources who disclosed that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta had revealed, in closed briefings to congressional intelligence committees late last month,
Cheney’s involvement in a secret counter-terrorist program that has been in operation for the past eight years in the US.

Leon Panetta was named by President Barack Obama to head the CIA earlier this year and has since investigated every aspect of the governments involvement in alleged counter-terrorist activities. Panetta terminated the secret program on June 23, 2009 immediately on learning of its existence.

Intelligence and congressional officials told the New York Times that the CIA began the program after the September 11, 2001 attacks and now claim that the program “…never became operational and did not involve CIA interrogation programs or domestic intelligence activities”.

CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said it was not the agency's practice to discuss classified briefings. "When a CIA unit brought this matter to Director Panetta's attention, it was with the recommendation that it be shared appropriately with Congress. That was also his view, and he took swift, decisive action to put it into effect," Gimigliano said, declining to comment further.
　

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