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Senator Grassley to Block CIA Nominee Until Agency Responds to His Letters
2017-05-14
[Free Beacon] Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is threatening to block one of President Donald Trump's nominees to a position in the CIA until the agency responds to his letters.

Grassley sent a letter in April 2014 and another one last month. Neither of them have received a response, the Hill reported Friday.

The letters are about two whistleblower notifications being declassified. In the second letter, Grassley frustratingly described how he has not heard back from the agency for three years.

"More than three years have passed since my initial request, and I still have not received declassified versions of the documents or an explanation of why the documents have not been declassified," Grassley said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  The Congress has become a really bad joke in the last 30 years.

Far more than that. When the decision was made to engage in entangling foreign alliances after WWII, all the power started gravitating to the Executive which the Founders feared in a powerful executive. When in the 60s, it allowed judicial activism take hold in order to avoid making hard decisions (they told us to do this, ergo we're not the blame), power shifted to an unelected and non-representative new aristocracy. When they decided to loot the social security funds for immediate social gratification, the cancer spread without remission. They just want to collect their paychecks and cash in on the insider game. The old republic was bought and sold.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-05-14 10:23  

#3  This the staff of an elementary school telling a class: "if you don't behave, I'm not going to send a substitute teacher in there".
Boy, that'll learn 'em.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-05-14 09:55  

#2  Is he going to wait 3 years this time too?

The Congress has become a really bad joke in the last 30 years. Somehow I can't picture Tip O'Neill letting Reagan's executive branch get away with such disrespect as has become normal since GHWB.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-05-14 08:17  

#1  Good, the Mandarinate should (re)learn respect for representatives.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-14 03:59  

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