Senator Bob Graham says the CIA lied about briefings that never took place

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/senator-bob-graham-the-cia-made-up-two-briefing-sessions/

Senator Bob Graham: The CIA Made Up Two Briefing Sessions

Bob Graham just appeared on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show. In addition to repeating earlier reports that he was never briefed on waterboarding, Graham revealed that the first time he asked the CIA when he was briefed on torture, it claimed it had briefed him on two dates when no briefing took place.

I didn't get Graham's exact quotes (and the quotes below are rough approximations), but when asked to respond to Philip Zelikow's assertion that members of Congress from both parties had been briefed on this program, Graham said that when he asked the CIA when he had been briefed on the program, the CIA gave him the dates of four briefings, two in April 2002 and two in September 2002, when they claimed they had briefed him about the program. But after Graham consulted his own records, he pointed out that on two of those dates, he had not attended any briefing. After Graham pointed this out to the CIA, they conceded their own dates were incorrect.

Graham then went on to repeat his claim that he had no recollection of being told about waterboarding Zubaydah or anything else about extreme interrogation.

on an almost minute-by-minute basis. I'm not laughing now. He's Nancy's best defense and if it's in his journals, that's the ball game.

Gawd, the CIA doesn't lie or make mistakes. They are good upstanding citizens who are totally in favor of open democracy and power to the people.

Graham better stay off small planes if he keeps this up.

this too in the context of the Pelosi smear.