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Obama Threatens to Veto Intel Bill If It Expands Covert-Briefing Access

By | 07.08.09 | 5:18 pm

So much for the most-transparent-administration-ever stuff.  Remember the Democrats on the House intelligence committee’s effort to open briefings on covert intelligence programs to a broader pool of members of Congress than the so-called “Gang of Eight?” And that they pushed that change because those restricted briefings enabled the Bush More…

So Long, Gang of Eight?

By | 06.15.09 | 12:54 pm

Not to be lost in the Iran shuffle: Greg Sargent reports that Democrats on the House intelligence committee are drafting a bill that would prevent the executive branch from restricting congressional briefings on super-secret covert intelligence activities to the so-called Gang of Eight — the political leadership and the More…