While some House Democrats say they were told by current CIA Director Leon Panetta that they had been misled by intelligence agency during the eight years of the Bush administration and in the early months of the Obama administration, a "U.S. intelligence official" has told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that Panetta never said that. Her report is introduced by NPR's Nora Raum:

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The story of what Panetta did or did not tell members of the House Intelligence Committee broke last evening when CQ.com reported that in a June 26 letter seven Democrats from the committee wrote to Panetta that:

Recently you testified that you have determined that top CIA officials have concealed significant actions from all members of Congress, and misled members for a number of years from 2001 to this week.

They then asked Panetta to "correct" a statement he had made on May 15 that it is not CIA policy to mislead Congress.

As CIA spokesman George Little has told Mary Louise and other reporters who cover intelligence issues, Panetta stands by his earlier statement that the agency believes "it is vital to keep the Congress fully and currently informed."