CIA Leak Hearing: Pervasive White House Involvement in “National Security Breach”

Michael Roston, rawstory.com House Democrats leading the investigation of the firing of eight US Attorneys are questioning the legal strategy of a top Justice Department official. Monica Goodling, who serves as liaison to the White House, hopes to avoid providing testimony ordered through a subpoena by invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. However, in…

Thomas B. Edsall and Max Follmer, Huffington Post Four former CIA officials who provided intelligence information to past presidents described as preposterous President Bush’s claim that he was unaware until very recently that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. “It’s unbelievable,” said Melvin Goodman, who worked for the CIA from 1966 to…