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Posted on 09/26/2006 10:25:39 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asked her colleagues Tuesday to close the House's doors for a highly unusual secret session to discuss a classified intelligence analysis on global terrorism.
Such a session hasn't happened in the House since July 1983, when the chamber went into a closed session to discuss the United States' support for paramilitary operations in Nicaragua.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the secret session is necessary to allow members to better understand the intelligence community's most recent assessment on global terrorism.
She said she hoped House Republicans would recognize the need for such an internal debate on the document, some of which leaked to the news media over the weekend.
According to the media reports, the intelligence estimate "is the administration's worst nightmare. It is not a corroboration of what the president is saying. It is a contradiction of what the president is saying," she said.
Pelosi's move followed President Bush's announcement that he will declassify the key findings of the intelligence assessment, which he and his top advisers have portrayed as a broad look at trends in terrorism rather than focusing on the impact of Iraq on U.S. national security.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the Republican-controlled House would allow the Democratic effort to shift the chamber's attention to one of the most controversial political issues of the November elections: the Bush administration's policies in the war on terror and its handling of the situation in Iraq.
Pelosi's maneuver required a simple majority of the House to approve.
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Didn't Harry Reid pull this last year in the Senate?
Scared Sh!tless.
Pelosi's pi$$ed...she doesn't want the public to read what it really says, she wants to leak selected sentences only.
Nancy Pelosi is Deeply Disturbed.
Looks like they are running fast, they know they have been check mated. Losers.
This is extraordinary. Why does Ms. Pelosi fight the Bush White House with more energy than she does real, honest-to-God terrorists? What in blazes is wrong with her?
Anybody know how Republicans are responding to her request?
Another cheap political trick from the Dim congressional "leadership".
Pelosi's move followed President Bush's announcement that he will declassify the key findings of the intelligence assessment, which he and his top advisers have portrayed as a broad look at trends in terrorism rather than focusing on the impact of Iraq on U.S. national security.
If Bush is declassying key sections of the assessment, why the need for a secret session? A caveman could see right through this one.
I don't know, but they probably haven't stopped laughing yet.
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