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442 Cannon House
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Washington, DC
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202-225-6316 Phone
202-225-4975 Fax
In Albuquerque
20 First Plaza NW
Suite 603
Albuquerque, NM
87102
505-346-6781 Phone
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Congresswoman Heather Wilson, First Congressional District of New Mexico


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Wilson Welcomes Full Committee Review of President`s Terrorist Surveillance Program May 16, 2006
 
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Heather Wilson today welcomed the agreement reached between the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the administration to expand the number of members to be briefed on the President`s Terrorist Surveillance Program to include all 21 members of the House Intelligence Committee and not just the 11 members who have already been briefed.

“Since February, I`ve said the entire Committee should be fully briefed into this program. Oversight has been moving forward methodically in classified session. Even so, this program is significant and may require legislation to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. All members of the Intelligence Committee need to understand it,” Wilson said. “The Intelligence Committee oversees highly classified programs and we must do our work in secret so that al Qaeda doesn`t know how we are trying to detect their plans and defeat them. Excellent intelligence is the first line of defense in the war on terror. We want to make sure our Intelligence community has the tools to keep us safe, while ensuring that the rights of Americans are protected."

Last week, Wilson encouraged Chairman of the Committee Pete Hoekstra in his effort to again seek to have all members of the committee briefed on all the details of the program.

“The Intelligence Committee has generally remained free of the partisan political battles that can dominate Washington. We have serious work to do for the nation and we need to get on with it using the longstanding practices of the Committee that govern how we do our work. That includes the principle that every member can have access to the information we need to do the job that our colleagues have charged us with doing,” Wilson said.
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