Another Day-Another Law "Violated" By Bushco

[kpete]

May 22, 2008
Congressional Quarterly's Tim Starks:

The Bush administration “violated” a law requiring notification to congressional intelligence committees when it took eight months to fully inform the panels about an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor, according to the House Intelligence Committee report on its fiscal 2009 authorization bill.

The committee report on the intelligence measure (HR 5959), approved May 8, also states that the administration has routinely “ignored” the law, including when it resisted disclosing the administration’s warrantless surveillance program to the full intelligence panels.

Administration officials did brief Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and ranking Republican Peter Hoekstra of Michigan about the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor and its destruction, reportedly by Israel. But the administration refused entreaties from Hoekstra and Reyes to brief the full committee until last month.

“Just hours before a highly-orchestrated public roll-out of the previously classified intelligence, the president finally sent briefers to the committee,” the panel report states. “The delay was inexcusable and violated the National Security Act of 1947, which requires that the executive branch keep Congress ‘fully and currently informed’ of all intelligence activities.

more at:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007425.html#more

[hootinholler]

1. kick for the fifth. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Bushness as usual

[AuntPatsy]

3. You forgot to mention another dollar....because I have no doubt someone

is benefiting financially and they have been daily since day one.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Yep, I'm not only The Decider. I'm also The Violator. Smirk." - Commander AWOL