{"id":2218,"date":"2009-05-17T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2009-05-17T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T18:30:22","slug":"association-of-former-intelligence-officers-responds-to-nancy-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/association-of-former-intelligence-officers-responds-to-nancy-pelosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Former Intelligence Officers Responds to Nancy Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Gene Poteat, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, offers the following <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YjMwYWMwZTFiYTA4NTlmY2MzMjU5NGI5NDE0NzcwOGE=\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s <\/span><span>claim that the CIA lied to her in their briefings<\/span><span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Those CIA officers chosen to brief the Congress, and especially the intelligence committees, are very senior, experienced officers, who well know the reputation and future of the CIA,\u00a0as well as\u00a0their own jobs, are on the line should they be perceived as not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Such restrictions, however, do not apply to members of the Congress when they then appear before the public.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ouch!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Poteat, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, offers the following statement on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s claim that the CIA lied to her in their briefings: Those CIA officers chosen to brief the Congress, and especially the intelligence committees, are very senior, experienced officers, who well know the reputation and future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,193],"tags":[628,663,686,131,645],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","category-war-on-terror","tag-cia","tag-enhanced-interrogations-techniques","tag-gene-poteat","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-waterboarding","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-zM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2489,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/pelosi-v-cia\/","url_meta":{"origin":2218,"position":0},"title":"Pelosi v. 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