Josh Marshall >> Sen. Rockefeller knew in '03, couldn't tell anyone

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(December 19, 2005 -- 05:18 PM EST // link)
Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV) just released a letter he sent the vice president on July 17th, 2003 after he received his first briefing about the NSA intercepts program. We'll be posting the letter momentarily. The long and the short of it, though, is that Rockefeller, as Ranking Member of the senate intelligence committee, was given a brief descrption of what was happening, but wasn't allowed to discuss it either with his staff or with his colleagues, even other senators on the intel committee.

-- Josh Marshall

Following up on the post below, we've just posted the newly-released letter Sen. Rockefeller wrote to Vice President Cheney back in July 2003 questioning the NSA domestic wiretapping.

-- Josh Marshall