Congress to investigate CIA program

US: The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will launch an investigation into secret assassination plans created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during former US government, reported the media Tuesday.

The radio and TV Democracy Now channel noted that legislators will analyze if former vice president Richard Cheney put pressure on the CIA not to inform the Congress plan.

The scandal broke out after current agency’s chief Leon Panetta recognize to the Committee that the institution concealed information during the last George W. Bush Administration.

They specially made reference to the secret program started after September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

After the issue was revealed Panetta ordered revision of the capitol news policies.

In front of this situation seven democratic congressmen wrote the Congress leaders after a closed door audience over the issue with Panetta recently appointed by President Barack Obama.

In another letter of the leader of the Lower House Intelligence Committee Silvestre Reyes he accused the CIA of providing the capitol with unfinished information for years and at least in one occasion it lied when notifying the organ over a classified issued.

Last May the House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi called the Agency guilty in 2002 of concealing use of tortures to prisoners for information.

After her declarations CIA members and republican legislators criticized Peloni and affirmed she was really informed over the issue. Washington, Prensa Latina