[privacy] More U.S. Lawmakers to Be Briefed on Domestic Surveillance

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

The White House, facing a potentially tough Senate grilling of its choice to head the CIA, agreed yesterday to expand 
the number of lawmakers who will receive classified briefings on the administration's anti-terrorism efforts that 
include warrantless wiretaps of domestic phone calls and e-mails.

The administration previously had insisted on briefing only a small fraction of Congress's 535 members, saying larger 
gatherings were likely to result in leaks of secret information. But Democrats and some Republicans had objected, and 
Gen. Michael V. Hayden -- President Bush's nominee to be CIA director -- faced the awkward prospect of a confirmation 
hearing tomorrow in which he could tell some Senate intelligence committee members, but not others, some details of the 
administration's surveillance programs.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601609.html

- ferg


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