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GOP Rep. Heather Wilson Calls for NSA Probe
The Republican chairwoman of the House subcommittee charged with overseeing the National Security Agency announced her own misgivings with the Bush administration’s controversial terrorist surveillance program Tuesday and called for a full congressional inquiry into the matter. The congresswoman, Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., is chair of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence. With the announcement, she became the first Republican on an Intelligence Committee, from either the House or Senate, to call for a full investigation. Wilson told the New York Times that she had "serious concerns,” arising, at least partially, from the fact that the administration has withheld information about the operation from lawmakers.
Story Continues Below Though Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, the inquiry was limited to the legal justifications for the operation and did not reach operational detail. The administration has also met frequently with the Gang of Eight – a group that includes party leaders in the House and Senate, and both intelligence committees. But Wilson said continued limited briefings were "increasingly untenable.” Vice President Cheney explained the administration’s reticence to discuss operational details of the program in an interview Tuesday on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” "It’s important for us,” he said, "if we’re going to proceed legislatively, to keep in mind there’s a price to be paid for that, and it might well in fact do irreparable damage to our capacity to collect information.”
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