Holder Tightens Grip On Intelligence Agencies -- Jed Babbin, Real Clear PoliticsAttorney General Eric Holder has tightened his grip on our intelligence agencies, requiring them to get Justice Department permission to release classified information to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, according to Senate sources.
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo), Ranking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and three Senate staffers working for other members have recently asked the Director of National Intelligence for information on the interrogation of the failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shazad. (Some of questions may have been directed at other intelligence matters as well.)
All four were told the information will not be provided until the Justice Department approved the transaction.
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My Comment: Jed Babbin hits it on the nail in illustrating on how politicized America's intelligence agencies have become. By controlling the flow of information Congress will limited in exercising its oversight responsibilities .... but then again that is probably what the White House wanted in the first place.