The entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

[kentuck]

The White House made the decision to "brief" only eight members of the intelligence committees of the House and Senate. The law requires them to brief the entire committee but they did not. Why did they make that decision?

Nancy Pelosi was the ranking member of the minority Party on the House Committee. Here is a list of the entire House Intelligence Committee:

* Porter Goss (R-FL)
* Doug Bereuter (R-NE)
* Michael N. Castle (R-DE)
* Sherwood L. Boehlert (R-NY)
* Jim Gibbons (R-NV)
* Ray LaHood (R-IL)
* Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA)
* Peter Hoekstra (R-MI, now ranking member)
* Richard Burr (R-NC)
* Saxby Chambliss (R-NC)
* Leonard Boswell (D-IA, joined the committee in 2001)
* Terry Everett (R-AL, joined the committee in 2002)
* Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
* Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA)
* Jane Harman (D-CA)
* Gary A. Condit (D-CA)
* Tim Roemer (D-IA)
* Silvestre Reyes (D-TX, now chair, joined the committee in 2001)
* Leonard L. Boswell (D-IA)
* Collin C. Peterson (D-MN)
* Bud Cramer (D-AL, joined the committee in 2002)
* J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL, Ex Officio)
* Richard A. Gephardt (D-MO, Ex Officio)

The White House decided to brief two Democrats and two Republicans from this list above. If Porter Goss and Dennis Hastert and Richard Gephardt and Nancy Pelosi were told about the torture, none of them protested as far as we know.

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After the House reorganized in January 2003, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) replaced Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence, and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) became the number two Democrat. Pelosi replaced Gephardt, serving ex officio. There were no leadership changes among Republicans.

Here is a list of the Senators on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
* Bob Graham (D-FL)
* Carl Levin (D-MI)
* John D. Rockefeller (D-W.VA)
* Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
* Ron Wyden (D-OR)
* Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
* Evan Bayh (D-IN)
* John Edwards (D-NC)
* Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
* Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
* Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
* James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
* Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
* Pat Roberts (R-KS)
* Mike DeWine (R-OH)
* Fred Thompson (R-TN)
* Richard Lugar (R-IN)

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/intelligencecom.htm

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How many of these Congress people and Senators knew about the torture and said nothing? I think we may be living in a fantasy world if we think they are going to open up this can of worms?

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[kentuck]

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