Lawmakers say won't be deterred on CIA probe

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071216/pl_nm/security_cia_interrogations_dc

Congress members vowed on Sunday to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes despite Justice Department advice that the agency not cooperate.

The top Republican member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee and a leading Democratic voice on security joined in a blistering attack on the CIA and on the complex network of U.S. intelligence agencies in general, which they described as arrogant, incompetent and unaccountable.

"We want to hold the (intelligence) community accountable for what's happened to these tapes," Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan said on "Fox News Sunday." "We will issue subpoenas. Our investigation should move forward.

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"It smells like the cover-up of the cover-up," Democratic U.S. Rep. Jane Harman of California, chairwoman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence, said on the Fox program.