independently assisting oversight of highly classified programs

[coderman]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal at riseup.net> wrote:
> Indeed, Daniel Ellsberg planned to have Congresspeople speak about the
> still-classified Pentagon Papers via this part of the Constitution.
> Senator Mike Gravel did it. You can read about it in Sanford J. Ungar's
> book The Papers & the Papers: an Account of the Legal and Political
> Battle over the Pentagon Papers....
>...
>> As before, it's rather clear, speak/leak all you want in session,
>> nothing criminal happens. The deleted part refers to non-congressional
>> activities/crimes/places... like murder, or to congressional
>> activities/crimes/places such as taking bribes... that are not
>> speech/debate on the floor or activities directly related to that,
>> like storing classified leaks in your office pursuant to leaking them.
>>
>> More, just read it all yourself...
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_v._United_States
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Congressmen_stripped_of_committee_assignment


thank you Douglas and grarpamp;  i learned something :)


coderman for congress!