Un-named Senator Stalls Intelligence Spending Bill

Un-named Senator Stalls Intelligence Spending Bill
December 16th, 2005

AP News is reporting that “one unidentified Republican is objecting to some portion” of the intelligence spending bill and that’s created a snag in “legislation that would force the Bush administration to divulge more about secret CIA prisons and the prewar Iraq intelligence.”

It’s unclear who the senator is or what the precise objections are.

Two separate amendments — from Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and John Kerry, D-Mass. — would require the national intelligence director to provide classified information on secret CIA prisons to congressional intelligence committees. The agency has not acknowledged that the sites exist.

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Will the few dems in the Houses finally catch on?

"Faulty". Translation: FALSE

They best start NOW to disintegrate the "faulty".

Woodrow Wilson, a visionary at the age of 29 years, offered this remark in 1885, approximately 28 years before becoming 28th President of the United States:

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/wwilson.html

""Unless Congress have and use every means of acquainting itself with the acts and the disposition of the administrative agents of the government, the country must be helpless to learn how it is being served; and unless Congress both scrutinize these things and sift them by every form of discussion, the country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important that it should understand and direct. The informing function of Congress should be preferred even to its legislative function. . . . he only really self-governing people is that people which discusses and interrogates its administration." W. Wilson, Congressional Government 303 (1885)."

"Kerry's spokeswoman April Boyd noted the Senate already approved his secret prisons amendment on another bill this year. "He would welcome another vote and another strong message from Congress to the administration that they cannot keep Congress in the dark," she said."

Yeah, enough of the mushroom treatment. If they don't get the information and continue to serve as a rubber stamp for this admin, we might as well not have a congress.

This admin is out of control - very glad Kennedy and Kerry are fighting to get the Congress' advise and consent role back on track.