Under Attack Again

" Thank you -- as we told you earlier this week the Justice Department is now pursuing its own inquiry into the interrogations. And it comes at a time when the CIA is taking fire in Washington -- by James Rosen reports this is not the first time the CIA has come under political attack."

" But attorney general Eric -- criminal investigation of CIA officers who interrogated terrorist and recent charges by speaker Nancy Pelosi and other house Democrats -- the CIA misled them. Have led some Republicans to accuse the Democrats of waging war on America's bonds."

" They've kept to say for eight years and now to have. And attorney general the United States opening up a criminal investigation. Against them it's disgraceful and I think -- I have a demoralizing effect in the CIA."

" The Watergate scandals ushered in the first great wave of attacks on the intelligence community Seymour -- is December 1974. New York Times exclusive -- till two decades of CIA abuses. Including domestic break -- wiretaps drug experiments and other violations of the agency's charter. The ensuing -- led to explosive senate hearings led by the late frank church Democrat of Idaho."

" And it is not. That it had a house and senate intern -- permanent oversight panels and further restrictions were placed on CIA assets at home and abroad."

" The charge hearings and the investigations that all of the media attacks in 1970 certainly hurt the CIA. Hurt them I think for two decades."

" But former senator Walter Huddleston a Kentucky Democrat who served on the church committee defends its role in exposing and curbing intelligence abuses."

" I believe in the long run. And we've probably saved intelligence operations because had they continued as they were. Might well of major moves to just eliminate."

" September 11 Attacks produced a new surgeon public backing for more aggressive intelligence tactics. They also produced in late 2005. A new New York Times expose say about the National Security Agency conducting warrantless wiretaps but no real fewer followed."

" Does a very different -- and I think in the church committee after thirty years of revelations people who are little more heartened to this and there are no longer surprise. To find out that the CIA having him say yes."

" but. Americans still embroiled in two foreign wars it remains to be seen whether the current controversies mark another watershed moment. Or simply another skirmish in the eternal tension between spies compelled by training and statute to operate in secrecy. And those charged with their oversight in Washington James Rosen."