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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmant Orrin Hatch has rejected Sens. Leahy, Grassley, and Specter's request for hearings into the FBI's handling of confidential informants. The following is from Eric Lichtblau's article, "Ex-Agent Gets Some Immunity in Spy Case" published in the New York Times on 1 May:
Posted by: George W. Maschke Posted on: May 2nd, 2003 at 8:37am
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmant Orrin Hatch has rejected Sens. Leahy, Grassley, and Specter's request for hearings into the FBI's handling of confidential informants. The following is from Eric Lichtblau's article, "Ex-Agent Gets Some Immunity in Spy Case" published in the New York Times on 1 May:
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Several leading senators have called for hearings, but Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, rejected the idea today. He said he did not think it was "the appropriate time" for a review while the Justice Department was conducting criminal and internal investigations.
But Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is one of the committee members who requested a hearing, said he was disappointed by the decision. "It's difficult for me to understand why we can't find time to come to grips with security issues that are jeopardizing our security and hampering our premier domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency," Mr. Leahy said.
Posted by: George W. Maschke Posted on: Apr 30th, 2003 at 3:59pm
Senators Leahy, Grassley, and Specter have formally requested a hearing into the Smith-Leung case that would include the FBI's procedures for handling confidential informants. See the following Associated Press report for details:
Interestingly, a version of Eric Lichtblau's above-linked article published in the Oakland Tribune under the title, "Case opens FBI's dirty closet" adds the following sentence that was not included in the version on the New York Times website:
"FBI officials said they had also begun more aggressive polygraph testing of informants in counterintelligence."
Posted by: George W. Maschke Posted on: Apr 20th, 2003 at 9:09am
U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley is reportedly seeking Judiciary Committee hearings into the FBI's use of informants and the Bureau's "inadequate controls." One such inadequate control is the use of polygraphy to assess the truthfulness of informants (as well as their "handlers"), and if such a hearing is indeed scheduled, then this would be an ideal opportunity for those with relevant information to bring it to the attention of Congress.