Steve King: Obama Refuses To Share Info On Flight 253

Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is accusing the Obama administration of refusing to share information with him and other Republican members of Congress on the attempted Flight 253 bombing. In response, King is calling for the relevant administration officials to brief all of Congress, for several hours behind closed doors.

“You can’t ask Congress to support your effort if you can’t at least have a sit-down conversation in a classified setting,” King told Iowa Public Television. “So what I’m going to push for is a session of Congress that is a classified briefing on the floor of Congress that brings in all the administration personnel that have jurisdiction over this and then close and lock the doors, shut down the security and then keep them there for three or four hours so they have to answer the questions rather than filibuster the questions.”

Typically, security information is shared with particular members of Congress on specific committees, rather than all of Congress, in order to avoid creating too many opportunities for information to leak out. The idea of briefing all of Congress would certainly be interesting.

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