Original sentence: Panetta told the Senate and House intelligence committees that the CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from Dick Cheney.They have said the program was started by the counterterrorism center at the CIA shortly after the attacks of Sept.Wall Street Journal reported, citing former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, that the programm was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives
Edited sentence: Panetta told the Senate and House intelligence committees that the CIA withheld information about a secret counter-terrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from Dick Cheney.They have said the program was started by the counter-terrorism center at the CIA shortly after the attacks of Sept.Wall Street Journal reported, citing former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, that the program was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives