GOP attacks non-partisan CRS for report critical of NSA spy program

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Hoekstra blasts CRS for ‘bias’

In a scathing letter, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence accused the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last week of issuing a partisan memorandum on domestic surveillance to the agency’s director.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) called the memorandum, which was requested by ranking member Jane Harman (D-Calif.), “a flawed and obviously incomplete analysis” in his letter Wednesday to CRS Director Daniel Mulhollan.
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Hoekstra does not plan to hold any hearing or take any punitive action against the agency, according to Ware, but he added, “When CRS gets involved with an issue, the public perception is that they are authoritative on that issue. … has no direct knowledge of the issue.”

While Mulhollan has not yet responded to Hoekstra, whose first letter was sent Jan. 19, he did respond Jan. 27 to a report in The Washington Times on Jan. 25 that revealed that the author of the same report, Alfred Cummings, had contributed to and worked for Democrats.

“CRS employees are respected public servants of the legislative branch, who in service to the majority and minority in both chambers of Congress present their analysis with balance and without partisan bias,” Mulhollan said in his letter to the editor.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020706/news4.html

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1. AAAh. The Washington Times, the voice of reason

Cummings, "had contributed to and worked for Democrats." So, if you work for and contribute to Republicans are your published contributions inherently suspect? Gotta hand it to the right wing hate and noise machine, it works very hard.