Flack: For Months, Tech "Snafu" Kept Key Intel Docs from Lawmakers

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001863.php

For five months this year, the House intelligence committee had a crucial intelligence report on the increasing threat of terrorism in the wake of the Iraq War -- yet not a single member read it. That's including the panel's chairman, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-IL) and the ranking member Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA).

In fact, an untold number of classified documents were kept from the members of the vital oversight committee from at least April to September of this year, according to the chairman's spokesman. In an interview yesterday, he blamed the months-long delay on technical problems with the "equipment" which handles the reports. (Harman's office did not return our phone calls and emails requesting comment.)

Hoekstra's spokesman told the Washington Post last month that a computer problem had delayed for months the distribution of the now-infamous National Intelligence Estimate on terror and the Iraq war, which was eventually leaked to the New York Times.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Unacceptable!

:mad:

[stepnw1f]

2. Ahhh... Jane Harmon Again!

::shaking head::

[Demeter]

3. I Wish We Michiganders Could Be Rid of That Fool Hoekstra

but he has his district full of pod people who can't tell their best interests from their worst prejudices....sigh. I wonder if it's hallucinogens in the water...


Muckraker lists him as representing Illinois...would that it were true (no offense, Illinois!)

[phusion]

4. wow, that's total bullshit

Does he think we're complete idiots?

Any organization like this will have multiple backups of important files that can be accessed by a variety of methods. It's totally unbelievable that they would be inaccessible for months.

:grr:

[w4rma]

5. Sort of like our problems with the voting "equipment"? (nt)

[The Sushi Bandit]

6. Keepin them in the dark!!

its part of the master plan

[The Sushi Bandit]

8. or is it a Shell Game??

the truth is under what cup??

[Ezlivin]

7. And these asshats want to build a missile defense system?

Hell, they can't even do the less-technical stuff without it being FUBAR.

I guess they'll spend $100 million to run a PR campaign to convince us things are just fine.