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FEDERAL VOTING .COM » Washington http://www.federalvoting.com Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Some intel notifications to Congress lagging http://www.federalvoting.com/fv/29395.htm http://www.federalvoting.com/fv/29395.htm#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:15 +0000 Federal Voting WASHINGTON ‘” A top U.S. official said Tuesday that an internal review has found that Congress was not fully notified about a small number of intelligence activities, but has since been brought up to date. Those undisclosed intelligence activities …

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