WP: Panel on Eavesdropping Is Briefed by White House

[Rose Siding]

The new seven-senator intelligence subcommittee created to review the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program had its first White House briefing yesterday and is scheduled to visit the National Security Agency's headquarters Monday to gather additional information, according to congressional and administration officials.

Those who participated in the briefing, which lasted more than two hours, were close-mouthed about the details. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released a statement yesterday evening describing the meeting as "extremely productive and educational for the members" of what he called the subcommittee on the oversight of the terrorist surveillance program.

"It's too . . . sensitive to talk about" was the only message from the panel's vice chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as passed on by his press secretary. A White House spokesman said there would be no comment.
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Members of the Senate subcommittee -- which, along with Roberts and Rockefeller, includes Republicans Mike DeWine (Ohio), Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) and Christopher S. Bond (Mo.) and Democrats Carl M. Levin (Mich.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) -- will not be able to share what they learn with the other eight members of the intelligence panel, according to rules the White House has proposed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/09/AR2006030902181.html

[dweller]

1. dimes to doughnuts Roberts will be on Russert sunday

with his memory pills and earplugs for the rest of the us, blathering about it anyway.

dp

[caligirl]

2. Their tour will be a side show, the real inner details will never be shown

[buddysmellgood]

3. Well...I imagine it's hard to talk openly about the kinky sex lives of

prominent democrats. So it's just as well. We'll get the details during the election.

[HuffleClaw]

4. "It's too . . . sensitive to talk about"

oh, a SECRET subcommittee. hmmmmm.