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Article: SEN. ROBERTS CONVINCES WHITE HOUSE TO ALLOW FULL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TO BE BRIEFED ON TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 16, 2006
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued the following press release:
In anticipation of General Michael Hayden's confirmation hearing to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS), in negotiations with The White House, insisted on briefing every member of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the President's Terrorist Surveillance Program. Today, the President agreed to expand the briefing to the entire committee.
Roberts said, "It became apparent that in order to have a fully informed confirmation hearing, all members of my committee needed to know the full width and breadth of the President's program. This issue will be central to ...