[Peace-discuss] DN!: Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request...

[C. G. Estabrook]

John W. wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Note that the "Congress" who agreed to the administration's request
>     to fund major escalation in secret operations against Iran was in
>     fact the Democratic party leadership -- specifically the "Gang of
>     Eight": Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy
>     Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John D. Rockefeller
>     IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes.  --CGE
> 
> Ummm....that's only four, ain't it?  :-)

Those are the Democratic members of the GOE; they're paralleled by Republican 
members, but my point was that the Dems are in control of both houses of 
Congress, so the administration's secret request had to be approved by the 
Democrats.  They could have rejected it.  --CGE