July 12, 2009
Posted: July 12th, 2009 04:11 PM ET
From CNN's Mark Isaacson WASHINGTON (CNN) - Congressman Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that “it’s disturbing” that former Vice President Dick Cheney may have ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress. Related: Cheney and alleged secret CIA program 'a problem.' Senator says The refusal to disclose a top-secret program to the few members of Congress authorized to review the sensitive material was “absolutely not” appropriate, Murphy told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday’s State of the Union. Though he has recently been briefed by CIA chief Leon Panetta on the nature of the secret program, he said that because the information is top secret he would not talk about it on TV or in private. On the issue of gays in the military, Murphy said that now is the “best time to move” on repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Thirteen thousand servicemen and women have been discharged under the highly controversial policy, he noted. Though he believes President Obama supports repealing the policy, he said he understands it’s up to Congress to change it. “It was an act of Congress that put this discriminatory law in place. It will take an act of Congress to repeal it.” Filed under: CIA Dick Cheney State of the Union
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