The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last week met in closed session and then voted against a proposed "resolution of inquiry" into the leak of clandestine CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity.
"I am disappointed that the [committee] Chairman [Porter J. Goss] did not even permit an open hearing to allow the public the ability to assess and judge for themselves our deliberations," said Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), who had introduced the resolution.
"The fact that much of the HPSCI's oversight work must take place in closed session does not mitigate the importance of, or the probing nature of, the oversight to which U.S. Intelligence Community is subjected by the HPSCI," said Chairman Goss.
See the new Report on the HPSCI action, dated February 3, here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_rpt/h108-413.html
Secrecy News source article
Sunday, February 08, 2004
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