Tar Baby

Via Digby, the LA Pravda speaks of the ...political problem caused by how the CIA handled a secret counter-terrorism program.

Not to be out done, The New York Pravda describes the bait the Congress has been offered:

... The agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, called emergency meetings with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees last month to inform them about the program, which he had canceled a day earlier. Mr. Panetta told the lawmakers that the program had initially been concealed from Congress at the behest of Dick Cheney, then vice president.

One Democratic member of the House committee, Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, said that in addition to the plans for killing Qaeda leaders, the review would cover what she described as the failure to inform Congress fully or accurately about three other issues: C.I.A. involvement in the downing of a missionary plane mistaken for a narcotics flight in Peru in 2001, and two matters that remain classified.

In addition, the inquiry is likely to look at the Bush administration’s program of eavesdropping without warrants and its detention and interrogation program.

Current and former intelligence officials have said that the scuttled assassination program was troubled by logistical problems and never progressed beyond the planning stage. Ms. Schakowsky, however, said she believed that the program had gone beyond planning and training, though she declined to discuss details...

Here's why the Oborg don't want to go there: they don't want to indict Bu$hCo for Al Qaeda assasination squads because Clinton did it first.

And if you count predator drone hits on hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan by now, Obama is still doing it.

This is all a tar baby. Cheneyburton-Bu$hCo will come out of it smelling all Patriotic, and the Democrats will come out of it stuck to the issue and smelling like hypocrites.