Dick Cheney hid from Congress the CIA reconnaissance program adopted after the attacks of September 11

According to the Air Force , citing the American media, the former US Vice President Dick Cheney gave direct instructions to the CIA leadership to hide the intelligence program of this department from the deputies of the congress.

The very existence of this program, adopted after the attacks of September 11, 2001, remained a secret for eight years, and even now its nature is not entirely clear. It is reported that the new CIA manager Leon Panett canceled the action of this project last month, when he learned about its existence.

According to an unassumed high -ranking source in the American administration, Panetta informed the members of the relevant committee of the US Congress that this information was classified by Lee Dick Cheney. The former vice president himself has not yet commented on the situation.

Information about the personal participation of Dick Cheney “surfaced” against the background of an increasing conflict between the CIA and American legislators regarding the concealment of important information about some aspects of the management.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives of Nensi Pelosi announced that the CIA leadership misled her regarding the methods of interrogation, including imitation of drowning, and another senior representative of the Democratic Party said, citing Leon Panett, which, under the previous leadership of the CIA, regularly misleads the deputies of the congress.

Details of the discovered secret program have not yet been disclosed, however, according to the sources in the administration, the program is not related to both well -known scandals of the time of the presidency of George Bush - methods of conducting interrogations and wiretapping telephone conversations.

The newspaper New York Times quotes a representative of the White House, who claims that the program was enacted by the Anti -Terroratical Unit of the CIA shortly after attacks on September 11, 2001 and included operations planning and staff training, but did not fully start working.

Several media at once reported that Dick Cheney personally instructed the CIA leadership not to disseminate information about the program in Congress.

The new head of the CIA, who took the post only after the administration of Barack Obama came to power, says that he learned about the existence of the program only on June 23.

The next day, he convened an emergency meeting with the congress committees related to reconnaissance activities to inform their members about the presence of the program and that its action has been canceled.

Currently, members of the Congress from the Democratic Party are lobbying for an increase in the number of deputies who have access to information about secret operations. The White House threatens to impose a veto on such a law, if it is adopted, out of fear that this can harm operations.

The reconnaissance department itself declined to comment on the role of Dick Cheney in history with a secret program.

“Not in the management rules to discuss what was or was not said during closed meetings,” said the CIA representative Paul Dzhimilyano.

"When the director (CIA of Leon) was attracted to this issue, he was recommended to share this information with the members of the Congress. He agreed with this recommendation and took operational, decisive actions to implement it," he added. Earlier this week, another CIA representative stated that "the administration has no IOI Practitioner Practice of Methods of Congress."