Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has said it is not investigating Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was the subject of a complaint last year involving contact between his office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
' Committee says U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes not being investigated ' The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has notified U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, that the committee is not investigating him. Last year, the Friends of the Border Patrol submitted a complaint to the committee, which looks into allegations of ethics violations, asking for an investigation...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
No, this post will have nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It concerns the hearing held this morning by the Senate Homeland Security Committee regarding the terrorist attack carried out by Maj. Nidal Hassan against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, a hearing called by that Committee's chairman, Joe Lieberman. Given the gravity of this incident and the potential for future such attacks, it makes eminent...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Following Levin, Reyes Postpones House Intel Committee Briefing on Fort Hood The Washington Independent Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) issued the following statement regarding the postponement of a full Committee briefing on...
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
I can hardly wait for the batsh*t crazy crowd to go all racist again. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday reaffirmed President Obama's determination to pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes the touchy issue of legalizing 12 million undocumented immigrants. "While it's important to emphasize the need for immigration reform from an enforcement perspective, the need...
Motor City Liberal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
By Faiz Shakir Last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee and current gubernatorial candidate, of leaking sensitive intelligence information to the press. Hoekstra told the Washington Post this week that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan had e-mail conversations with a radical Yemeni cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi. Maddow excoriated Hoekstra...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
There is a different tone coming out of the House of Representatives today. Speaker Pelosi called the CIA liars a few months back, offered no proof, then managed to sweep the controversy under the rug. Today, as a Republican calls for an explanation and the preservation of documents, Rep. Pete Hoekstra accused Obama of withholding "critical" information critical. The House Intelligence Committee,...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
House intelligence committee chair Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) made a thinly veiled swipe at his GOP counterpart today over comments made by Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) criticizing the Obama Administration's handling of information about the Fort Hood shootings. As we told you...
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Henry Cuellar, Solomon Ortiz Sr., Ciro Rodreguez and Silvestre Reyes. In the wake of House passage of the health care bill & the Stupak Amendment, we clearly have our work cut out for us. Yet, at the same time, we have a tremendous opportunity: a very sizeable number of bad Dems have very publicly identified themselves in a way that average voters can readily grasp. Whether or not they can be defeated...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A Courtesy to our Friends at KOS DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SLAP WOMEN BACK TO THE STONE AGE ( HR # Bill: H R 3962 ) KOS diarist LaFeminista reflects the animus the Soros-left have after the passsage of the Stupak Amendment which, nominally, will keep Obamacare from funding abortion. In truth, a Medicare type supplement insurance will be available. Anyway, to help them out, and make retribution easier,...
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
EL PASO -- U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, dismissed a story in the Washington Post that alleged the congressman was the subject of a complaint to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct House regarding a relative of Reyes' wife who was kidnapped last year in Juárez. The Washington Post published a separate story titled "Ethics panel eyed whether Reyes misused his...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), the powerful chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, drew scrutiny from ethics investigators last year after an aide contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about the kidnapping of a distant relative of Reyes's wife.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
By Chris Strohm | Congress Daily | October 23, 2009 The House Intelligence Committee has launched a series of hearings as part of its investigation into whether U.S. intelligence agencies broke the law by failing to inform Congress of covert activities. But a significant internal dispute on the committee surfaced Thursday, with Democrats and Republicans clashing over the scope and direction of the...
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
From CongressDaily, a service of National Journal : House Intelligence Republicans used a rare public committee hearing today to attack the Obama administration for not keeping Congress informed on its plans to close the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The panel called the hearing to examine ways to improve how Congress is notified about intelligence activities, an issue elevated...
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Freep : WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra this morning used an open meeting of the Intelligence subcommittee to demand the Obama administration reveal its plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and whether terror suspects could be moved into Michigan. Hoekstra, a Holland Republican and candidate for governor, was rebuked by committee chairman Silvestre Reyes for trying to inject...
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