It’s dangerous to give Congress information, even if legally and ethically required.

It’s even more dangerous to give information to politicians who have confused attaining an office like the presidency with having some grasp of what is needed from an executive.

And it’s even more dangerous to give information, especially sensitive information, to some hack like Rove who will use it for some political game.

Please.

The program went on for SIX YEARS. We still dont really know what it entailed. If ANY money whatsoever was spent on the program in ANY way then keeping it from Congress was illegal. Keeping it secret from Congress anyway just shows what arrogant weasels the Bush administration was. They didnt believe anyone had a right to input in their policies.

Yeah we already know what the Limborg hivemind has TOLD you to spew out. Its STUPID but brainless, brainwashed morons gotta do what they gotta do. Pelosi has shown no such thing. What could Pelosi do about a CLASSIFIED program? She couldnt tell anybody. The ranking member of her comittee DID object in the way they could. As usual you morons never let facts or reality get in the way of the ignorant propaganda you want to regurgitate. Doesnt it embarass you to be so stupid and brainwashed?

Correct, but the NYT did report on the program, so Congress would have known about it then. The program did not go any farther than planning and discussion. After the invasion of Iraq, plenty of the things discussed in this particular program where being done in the open, so there is no reason to report on a program that didnt proceed.

The Oversight committee would then have to make their own judgement(based on the law) on whether these attacks on AQ were part of the war effort or part of the earlier program.

Except that Congress didnt need to be notified of any program that was never implemented, so there was no reason to tell them any more than what was written by the NYT.

That is an absurd construction of the law. The law does not distinguish between implementation of programs. The whole point of an oversight committee is to insure that the law is followed.

Stampede88 says:
Besides, Speaker Pelosi has already proven that, even when informed, Congress doesnt pay attention until it has a political reason to.

This is even more absurd. Pelosi said the CIA was not telling the truth. The Republicans, some of which had criticized the CIA of lying, said the CIA does not lie. Now we find out that the CIA was lying to Congress about its activities. I would certainly welcome an investigation into Pelosi’s charge but I don’t think the CIA and Republicans want to go there because the investigation will expose a lot of lying by the CIA and possibly Bush and Cheney.

Besides, Speaker Pelosi has already proven that, even when informed, Congress doesnt pay attention until it has a political reason to.

Because Congress has an oversight function and it is the LAW that they be informed of such programs. DUH

I grew up in an independent church listening to the plans of the govt to tatoo our heads with “666″, heard from some of the plans for the Majestic-12 (? was it 12) / illuminati / etc. . A list being made of people to round up in time of trouble. Plans for a comprehensive surveillance system on the entire population.

Even played a video game based on this (Duke Nuke’m).

But who among the crowd would have guessed that these would all be instituted by the conservative side ? It was supposed to be the commie liberals that did this.

Who would