After the announcement by Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) that the House Intelligence Committee will investigate:
... whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress promptly about a secret program to deploy teams of killers to target al-Qaida leaders.
... emptywheel gave a brief look at what such an investigation might reveal:
The investigation will include the reported assassination squad. But the core issue is more general--how CIA informs Congress. Which means that, in fact, this should also include whether or not CIA fullly briefed Pelosi and Goss on torture back in 2002.
... the investigation will examine whether there was any "direction" to withhold information from Congress.
Naturally, Peter Hoesktra (R-MI), the top Republican on the Committee, is fully supportive:
At no time will the Republicans of this committee agree to or take part in congressional Democrats efforts to tear down the CIA to provide cover for Speaker Pelosi.
This should be fun.