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Another US Secret Intelligence Program?

Another secret US intelligence program was revealed to the House Intelligence Committee by a government whistleblower.

The Bush administration has broken more laws and subverted the democratic process more often than any previous administration. Yet the neutered corporate mainstream media and the Democrats are not demanding explanations and impeachment. What will it take?

House Intelligence Committee only

briefed after whistleblower alerts chairman.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said the White House briefed his committee on another "significant" intelligence program only after it was brought to his attention by a government whistleblower.

The New York Times reports that Rep. Peter Hoekstra, (R) of Michigan then pressed President Bush to tell him about the program.

"We can't be briefed on every little thing that they are doing," Mr. Hoekstra said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "But in this case, there was at least one major – what I consider significant – activity that we had not been briefed on that we have now been briefed on. And I want to set the standard there, that it is not optional for this president or any president or people in the executive community not to keep the intelligence committees fully informed of what they are doing."

The White House declined to comment on the issue Sunday but said last week that it would continue to work closely with Mr. Hoekstra and the intelligence committees.

Read rest of this article here: The Christian Science Monitor.

posted by Annamarie at 10:23 PM