Friday, February 26, 2010

Rep. McDermott tries to sneak anti-CIA amendment into bill in the dead of night

Rep. McDermott tries to sneak anti-CIA amendment into bill in the dead of night
"Liberal Democrats may tout openness, reform and transparency on the campaign trail but those promises never seem to make it past the Beltway when they return to Washington.

In one of the more egregious examples of this truism, one needs to look no further than the efforts by Representative Jim McDermott (D-Washington) to pull a fast one and slip into the intelligence budget a provision that, in a backdoor way, impose fines and prison terms on intelligence officers who 'abuse' captured terrorism suspects."

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