Ally Warned Bush That Failing To Inform Congress Of Secret Programs May Be Illegal...

New York Times ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE July 8, 2006 at 06:46 PM
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In a sharply worded letter to President Bush in May, an important Congressional ally charged that the administration might have violated the law by failing to inform Congress of some secret intelligence programs and risked losing Republican support on national security matters.

The letter from Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, did not specify the intelligence activities that he believed had been hidden from Congress.

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