WP: GOP Blocks Action on Senate Intelligence Authorization Bill

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Thu Dec-22-05 11:02 PM
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WP: GOP Blocks Action on Senate Intelligence Authorization Bill

GOP Blocks Action on Senate Intelligence Authorization Bill

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 23, 2005; Page A07

Senate Republicans late Wednesday blocked the authorization bill that guides the country's intelligence programs. It was the first time in 27 years that the bill had failed to pass before the end of the calendar year.

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Democrats were informed last week that Republicans would clear the bill if three amendments, two by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and one by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), would be stripped from the consent agreement.

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Kerry's amendment would require the director of national intelligence to give the intelligence panels information on secret CIA prisons in several Eastern European democracies and in Asia.

Kennedy's amendments would require the White House to turn over copies of daily intelligence briefs that President Bush and former President Bill Clinton reviewed on Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122201662.html

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merwin

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Thu Dec-22-05 11:06 PM
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1. Dirty bastards

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IndianaGreen

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Thu Dec-22-05 11:10 PM
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2. GOP is blocking Congress from its oversight duties

Protect the Fuehrer at all costs, is their rallying cry!

The GOP has been reduced to being a criminal enterprise, no different from the Cosa Nostra.

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texpatriot2004

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Fri Dec-23-05 01:33 AM
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4. Yep. The GOP puts party loyalty ahead of the US Constitution

ahead of the nation and ahead of Americans.

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Thu Dec-22-05 11:45 PM
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3. Dollars to Donuts.... It was Senator Roberts that held it back...

Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 11:46 PM by radio4progressives

do i hear any takers?

:shrug:

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