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• GOP Opposes Attempt To Revise Wiretap Law

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gop, Opposes, Attempt, Revise, Wiretap, Law, The White House, United States, John Conyers, Caroline Fredrikson, Dan Eggen, Rush Holt, Silvestre Reyes, Tony Fratto, American Civil Liberties Union, U S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, U S Republican Party

  A House Democratic effort to revise the nation's new foreign intelligence surveillance law met swift resistance yesterday from the White House, Republican lawmakers and even some party members.

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• Newsflash

  Published: December 9, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Jay Rockefeller, Rule Of Law, Jane Harman, Counterterror, Silvestre Reyes, Jose Rodriguez Jr, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Human Rights, Democratic Party, Intelligence, Security, Kabuki, Cia, Congress

  in Texas with the brother of Silvestre Reyes, the Democratic chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where Reyes has served since 2001 and Rodriguez and Chairman Reyes are extremely close friends, and the congressman set up Rodriguez with his brother. Silverstein asks, what does it say about the strength

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• CIA Chief: Hill Should Have Been Told More

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Cia, Chief, Hill, Should, Have, Been, Told, More, Michael Hayden, Central Intelligence Agency, Pete Hoekstra, Silvestre Reyes, Michigan, Abd Al Rahim Al Nashiri, Abu Ghraib, Abu Zubaida, Al Abidin Muhammed Hussein, Antonio Taguba, Dan Eggen, George Tenet, John Negroponte, Jos

  Congress was not fully informed about the videotaping of harsh interrogation methods used on two al-Qaeda terrorism suspects in 2002 or the destruction of those tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.

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• Jose Rodriguez may seek immunity over torture tape testimony

  Published: December 24, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Jose Rodriguez, Cia, Torture Tapes, Torture, Waterboarding, Silvestre Reyes, House Intelligence Committee

  and destroyed them?” Silvestre Reyes, Chair of the Committee, issued a statement two weeks ago saying that he's "not looking for scapegoats" in the investigation, signaling that he was willing to cut a deal with the man the Bush administration was pinning the blame upon. Rodriguez is no innocent of course, and it's disturbing to learn

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• Phone Firms' Bid for Immunity in Wiretaps Gains Ground

  Published: January 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Phone, Firms, Bid, For, Immunity, Wiretaps, Gains, Ground, George W Bush, The White House, Harry Reid, U S Republican Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Arlen Specter, Christopher Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Sheldon Whitehouse, Silvestre Reyes, Moveon Org

  The Senate signaled in a key vote yesterday that it supports giving some of the nation's largest telephone companies immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits related to a federal domestic eavesdropping program initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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• Reyes writes President Bush regarding FISA

  Published: February 17, 2008, 11:48 am

  Tags: Silvestre Reyes, Fisa

  that they have won.Sincerely,Silvestre Reyes Member of Congress Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ............................................................................................................................................................Kudos to Reyes. Unfortunately it will not be enough to stop the Dems

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• Reyes rips The Shrub, I salute you sir!

  Published: February 17, 2008, 8:23 pm

  Tags: Bushco Bullshit, Telco Immunity, Silvestre Reyes, Fisa

  out of this memo. I love Mr. Reyes too, amen bro. From RawStory:Congressman Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to President Bush regarding the ongoing battle over warrantless wiretapping.Text of the letter follows below.#President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,

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• Spy Law Lapse Blamed for Lost Information

  Published: February 23, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Spy, Law, Lapse, Blamed, For, Lost, Information, Silvestre Reyes, Michael Mukasey, Mike Mcconnell, Michigan, At Amp T Inc, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Verizon Communications Inc, Capitol Hill, Jay Rockefeller, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, San Francisco, The White House, U S R

  The Bush administration said yesterday that the government "lost intelligence information" because House Democrats allowed a surveillance law to expire last week, causing some telecommunications companies to refuse to cooperate with terrorism-related wiretapping orders.

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• U.S. Details Reactor in Syria

  Published: April 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Details, Reactor, Syria, United States, North Korea, Pete Hoekstra, Israel, The White House, Yongbyon, Al Kibar, Dana Perino, David Albright, Pyongyang, Silvestre Reyes, Central Intelligence Agency, Euphrates River, Syrian Embassy, U S House Permanent Select Commit

  The Bush administration charged Thursday that a secret Syrian nuclear reactor was within weeks or months of completion before Israel bombed it on Sept. 6 and demanded that North Korea and Syria publicly acknowledge their collusion on a facility that could have produced plutonium for a nuclear...

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• FISA Fight: Reyes Ready to Capitulate

  Published: June 4, 2008, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Warrantless Wiretapping, Telco Amnesty, Steny Hoyer, Silvestre Reyes, Nancy Pelosi

  but let's get on with it." Reyes said he believes enough Democrats will support the proposal to pass it in the House. But he said House Majority Leader Hoyer told him that House Democratic leaders want to have the liability of the telecoms reviewed in federal district court as opposed to the FISA court. A senior Reyes aide clarified his boss'

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• Earmark Spending Makes a Comeback

  Published: June 13, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Earmark, Spending, Makes, Comeback, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, Jeff Flake, Saxby Chambliss, Silvestre Reyes, Todd Akin, Capitol Hill, Barack Obama, Blanche Lincoln, Christopher Dodd, Duncan Hunter, Elizabeth Dole, Geoff Davis, Jeff Sessions, Mark Pryor, Mel Martinez

  More than a year after Congress pledged to curb pork barrel funding known as earmarks, lawmakers are gearing up for another spending binge, directing billions toward organizations and companies in their home districts.

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• Earmark Spending Makes a Comeback

  Published: June 13, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Earmark, Spending, Makes, Comeback, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, Jeff Flake, Saxby Chambliss, Silvestre Reyes, Todd Akin, Capitol Hill, Barack Obama, Blanche Lincoln, Christopher Dodd, Duncan Hunter, Elizabeth Dole, Geoff Davis, Jeff Sessions, Mark Pryor, Mel Martinez

  More than a year after Congress pledged to curb pork barrel funding known as earmarks, lawmakers are gearing up for another spending binge, directing billions toward organizations and companies in their home districts.

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• U.S. Looked Into Kidnapping of Woman Related to Lawmaker

  Published: June 28, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Looked, Into, Kidnapping, Woman, Related, Lawmaker, Silvestre Reyes, Erika Posselt, Ciudad Juarez, Vincent Perez, Kelly Nantel, United States, El Paso, Melanie Sloan, Mexico City, Michael Chertoff, U S Bureau Of Immigration And Customs Enforcement, Chihuahua Sta

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents helped investigate the kidnapping last week of a Mexican citizen who is related to the chairman of the powerful House intelligence committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), officials confirmed yesterday.

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• Bush Unveils Spy Guidelines, Angering House Overseers

  Published: August 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Unveils, Spy, Guidelines, Angering, House, Overseers, Pete Hoekstra, United States, Mike Mcconnell, Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence, Silvestre Reyes, U S Republican Party, Michigan

  The Bush administration unveiled new operating guidelines for the nation's intelligence community yesterday in a move that boosted the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) while triggering protests from lawmakers who complained that they weren't properly consulted.

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• Bush Unveils Spy Guidelines, Angering House Overseers

  Published: August 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Unveils, Spy, Guidelines, Angering, House, Overseers, Pete Hoekstra, United States, Mike Mcconnell, Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence, Silvestre Reyes, U S Republican Party, Michigan

  The Bush administration unveiled new operating guidelines for the nation's intelligence community yesterday in a move that boosted the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) while triggering protests from lawmakers who complained that they weren't properly consulted.

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