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The head of the CIA has admitted concealing "significant actions" from the US Congress over the past eight years, according to several Democrat members of the House intelligence committee.
Leon Panetta's testimony was made behind closed doors, but yesterday the details of a letter written by Democrats to the intelligence chief discussing his committee appearance said the CIA had "misled members".
Rush Holt, one of the signatories, would not identify the classified matter the CIA has been accused of lying about but said: "We wouldn't be doing this over a trivial matter."
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House Democrats: Spy Chief Says CIA Misled Congress for Years
Jul 9th, 2009 - VOA News
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives says thedirector of the CIA has testified that officials with the spy agencymisled members of Congress from 2001 until last month.
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