A few members of the House Intelligence Commitee kept basic information on the NSA's surveillance program from the rest of the House of Representatives, says Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI). On Facebook, Amash posted one of the recently declassified documents on FISA surveillance, noting one passage in a 2011 letter: "We believe that making [an enclosed] document available to all members of Congress, as we did with a similar document in 2009, is an effective way to inform the legislative debate" about reauthorizing the law used for phone surveillance. But Amash says that the House Intelligence Committee, which received the letter, never distributed the document.
Less than two weeks ago, the Obama administration released previously classified...
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