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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I think Congress should investigate their concerns. I think Congress has a responsibility as outlined in the Constitution to, check the Executive Branch. They should never assume that the Executive Branch is being fully cooperative and following the law. They should have controls in place and people willing to drill down and get the information they should have. At the Congressional level, ignorance is not an excuse. At the Congressional level, being "lied to" is not an excuse. If the law was violated, congress needs to act and there needs to be consequences for the law being violated. In my view this is a simple matter.
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I (*shudder*) second Ace. If Congress had used its oversight authority, including its ability to hold people it subpoenaed in contempt and jail them, to investigate this sort of thing a couple years ago, when it was clear that the Bush administration was not being honest with them, this probably would have come out then.
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