From the Washington Times: “President Bush threatened to veto the latest House version of an update to foreign surveillance law, as the chamber’s members last night held their first “secret session” since 1983 and only their sixth since the end of the War of 1812 to hash out the issue.”
The House went into secret session last night, at the behest of Republicans who wanted to speak more freely about the nature of intelligence threats and to explain past cooperation by telecommunications companies with the government. The House often held such sessions in the republic’s early years, but before yesterday there had been only five since 1815.
The White House is seeking legal immunity for these telecom companies, which is a major sticking point for Democrats.
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B Johnson // Mar 16th 2008 at 12:19 pm
Secret session, maybe the House is starting to get the picture Americans are mad. That Government officals are spying on them. A closed session more importantly is probably done to keep lobbyist and corporation influence out.
Jim // Mar 18th 2008 at 3:10 pm
there are better sources than the Washington Times, ya know.
Just sayin’…
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