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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is targeting freshman Democratic Congressman Harry Teague with a radio ad (mp3) that accuses Teague of covering for the House Majority Leader.
The attacks come as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading her and the Congress about details of the “enhanced interrogation techniques,” referred to many as torture, that were used on detainees. Then, the NRCC ad claims, Pelosi opposed an investigation into the matter and that Teague backed her.
The Plum Line notes that Pelosi “supports Republican calls for the CIA to release all the notes and briefings on her torture briefing, and she has repeatedly called for a Truth Commission on how the Bush torture program came to be.”
However, the ad is referring to a Republican motion to create “a select subcommittee to investigate the speaker’s allegations” according to Politico.
“The Democrats have once again shown they’d rather protect their Speaker than uncover the truth,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “For Pelosi to insinuate that the CIA lied to her is bad enough, but for her puppets to then block an investigation into her claims is even worse.”
Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra himself accused the CIA of misleading Congress last year. An investigation found that some CIA operatives did, indeed, mislead Congress.
“The tired attacks from the Republican Party of No are just an attempt to distract from the progress President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Congress are making on jobs, health care, and energy,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Press Secretary Ryan Rudominer told Hotline on Call. “Polls show that Americans are reacting badly to House Republicans lack of ideas, obstruction, and commitment to the politics of the past.”
In addition to the radio ads for six members of Congress, the NRCC is going to start robocalls in ten Democratic-held districts on the CIA issue.
The NRCC didn’t spend any money trying to defeat Teague in November’s election, while the DCCC spent over $1.5 million on Teague’s behalf.
