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The Democrat-led U.S. House is in a panic, stunned and overreacting to Attorney General Barr’s summary of Mueller’s “no collusion” report, misstating law, making wild claims for White House documents, misusing congressional subpoena power, mischaracterizing oversight authorities. They are making a big mistake. Oversight overreach is reckless, but the U.S. House is going rogue. As a former U.S. House oversight staff director and counsel, having managed countless investigations of Justice, Defense, State and NASA for five years, we focused on waste, fraud and abuse, loss of life at Waco, mismanagement at immigration, defense inventory management, counter-narcotics, interagency coordination – plain...

No administration official put pressure on any analyst to manipulate intelligence data to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee he defended intelligence analysts, saying the men and women in the intelligence community have a tough and often thankless job. "If they fail, the world knows it," Rumsfeld told the senators. "And when they succeed – as they often do, to our country's great benefit – their accomplishments often have to remain secret." Today, intelligence professionals have little margin for error....