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Fear and Loathing on the House Intelligence Committee, Part Deux

Fear and Loathing on the House Intelligence Committee, Part Deux

The September 11, 2001 terror attacks lays bare the oversight panel's dysfunction

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“Congressional oversight for intelligence,” the 9/11 Commission Report stated bluntly, “is now dysfunctional.” 

Period. And that was a kind way of putting it.

It was 2004. The House Intelligence Committee, in particular, was a smoldering wreck after years of partisan rancor, mostly fanned by Newt Gingrich, the incendiary Republican Speaker of the House. F…

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