Flutterby™! : Legislators fear the CIA

TechDirt: Nancy Pelosi admits that Congress is scared of the CIA, pulling quotes from Roll Call: Pelosi Praises Feinstein, Calls CIA Director’s Statements ‘Befuddling’:

“I salute Sen. Feinstein,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference of the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I’ll tell you, you take on the intelligence community, you’re a person of courage, and she does not do that lightly. Not without evidence, and when I say evidence, documentation of what it is that she is putting forth.”

Pelosi added that she has always fought for checks and balances on CIA activity and its interactions with Congress: “You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth.