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Posted Monday, July 10, 2006, at 6:48 PM ET
On July 8 the New York Times' Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane reported that Rep. Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a very testy four-page letter to President Bush a couple of months ago complaining that the Bush administration hid from Congress the existence of certain fairly substantial (and, the Times strongly suggests, potentially quite controversial) intelligence activities. The Times assured readers that these activities are not anything the public has yet heard about. What's striking is that Hoekstra has until now been almost pathologically gung-ho about the war on terrorism, as the first three pages of his letter make clear. But even Hoekstra has his limits, apparently.
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