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A White House spokeswoman said Wednesday night that the expanded briefings Wednesday and Thursday did not change the "principle" embraced by the president and vice president.
The expanded briefings nonetheless represent a significant concession by the White House in response to growing dissent among members of Congress who felt they were unable to carry out their legal responsibility for intelligence oversight.
But President Obama has threatened to veto the bill, saying that expanding briefings would undermine “a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters".
The senator said he was particularly troubled that the administration had expanded its Congressional briefings on the financial tracking program in recent weeks after having learned that The New York Times was making inquiries.
What began as a thought-provoking website has expanded into live briefings and forums for key decision-makers and public policy opinion leaders as well as the publishing of popular ebooks on subjects ranging from global health concerns, to innovation, to the environment's impact on our wellbeing.
"These restricted briefings should be expanded," said Representative Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Relevant members of the House and Senate intelligence committees have been briefed on the Defense Department's expanded role in covert affairs, a Pentagon adviser assured me, but he did not know how extensive the briefings had been.
WASHINGTON, July 19 - The highly classified daily briefings prepared for President Bush have been expanded to include significant contributions from sources other than the Central Intelligence Agency, and will soon be modified further to absorb a separate daily terrorist threat assessment, two senior intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
With a couple of additional days to reflect and not get more intelligence briefings, and seemingly still in campaign mode, Mr. Trump expanded on his views, telling Fox News during an interview on Sunday his feelings about the CIA's findings: "I think it's ridiculous.
The amendments to the act expanded the government's ability to deny access to information by keeping ministerial briefings secret, ignoring requests for information that cabinet ministers deem to be "frivolous," and barring the auditor general from a wider array of records.
