Ethics

Hoekstra Plays Pot and Kettle with Pelosi

By Ed Brayton

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee and candidate for governor of Michigan in 2010, is outraged -- outraged -- that Nancy Pelosi would dare to accuse the CIA of giving less-than-comprehensive briefings or, worse yet, of lying to Congress. Those accusations, he said on CNN, are "outrageous." And on Fox News he said, in essence, it's one thing to criticize the CIA's performance, but quite another to accuse them of lying. But as ThinkProgress points out, Hoekstra has accused the CIA of lying to Congress himself more than once.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).