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[privacy] White House Kept 'Major Program' Secret From Congress
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:34:40 GMT
Via The Boston Globe (Reuters). [snip] The Bush administration was running several intelligence programs, including one major activity, that it kept secret from Congress until whistle-blowers told the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman said on Sunday. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News Sunday he had written a four-page to President George W. Bush in May warning him that the failure to disclose the intelligence activities to Congress may be a violation of the law. In doing so, he confirmed a story that first ran in Sunday editions of the New York Times. [snip] More here: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/09/white_house_kept_major_program_secret_from_congress/ NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/washington/09hoekstra.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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