matter by senate democrats,
particularly by senator ron
wyden of oregon, who today told
reporters that while he
understood that operations
needed to be confidential, laws
in this country and their
interpretation, laws are not
supposed to be confidential.
ron wyden and a bipartisan group
of ten other senators wrote to
the president this week asking
him to please clear the way for
this memo to be released to
congress.
and then tonight we are told
that the president called
senator ron wyden himself and
said okay, we're going to let
you see it.
after all this time, we're not
only going to admit it exists,
we're going to let you guys on
the intelligence committee see
this memo.
it happens the night before the
president's nominee to run the
cia will appear before the
intelligence committee in the
senate for confirmation hearing,
congressional oversight on
national security and war.
the executive branch recognizing
that this is a rest of the
government too, even on national
security.
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