Former CIA Director: No One Told Me Not To Tell Congress

NPR finds the one person the New York Times should have interviewed.

The man who ran the CIA from 2006 through January says he wasn't told by then-vice president Dick Cheney not to brief Congress about a covert program aimed at members of al-Qaida, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

Gen. Mike Hayden's statement is at odds with a New York Times report Sunday that said the CIA: Withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years.

Now we know...NY Times employees don't even read their own paper.

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