House Dems Release Fiery Response To Latest GOP Wiretapping Claims

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House Dems Release Fiery Response To Latest GOP Wiretapping Claims
Posted on October 15, 2007 at 3:47 PM.

Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), chairman of the House intelligence committee, responded aggressively today to GOP charges that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was responsible for delays in the search for kidnapped US soldiers in Iraq.

Two articles today, one in Roll Call and another in the New York Post, cite House Republican staff and anonymous sources again blaming current wiretapping law for U.S. difficulties in snooping on the communications of Iraqi insurgents.

"Republicans are planning to use the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three U.S. soldiers in Iraq earlier this year to put a 'human face' on the issue," John Stanton reported.

Reyes aggressively pushed back in a memo released this afternoon, calling the GOP plan a "cynical and transparent attempt to use the lives of American servicemembers for partisan political gain."

Reyes' memo puts another human face on the delays in investigating the kidnapped soldiers: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The "inexcusable delays in the collection intended to save Specialist Alex Jimenez, Private First Class Joseph Anzak, and Private Byron W. Fouty was the fault of internal bureaucratic bungling by the Bush Administration, not the law," Reyes says, citing a timeline produced by the Director for National Intelligence.

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[rodeodance]

1. oh, I so want to slap the WH down!!