Administration Limits Briefings for Congress
From Times Wire Reports
In the days leading up to this week’s attacks on Afghanistan, President Bush clamped down on the sharing of classified information with Congress.
Bush sent a memo Friday to the attorney general, the secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, and the CIA and FBI directors, instructing them on “protecting American lives” and maintaining “the proper level of confidentiality” of classified or sensitive law enforcement information.
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