Pelosi Requests Declassification of Her
Letter on NSA Activities
US House
Nancy Pelosi
December 20, 2005
Washington, D.C. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the
following statement today on her request to the Director of National
Intelligence to declassify a letter she wrote several years ago to the Bush
Administration expressing concerns about the activities of the National
Security Agency.
"When I learned several years ago that the National Security Agency had been
authorized to conduct the activities that President Bush referred to in his
December 17 radio address, I expressed my strong concerns in a classified
letter to the Administration and later verbally.
"Today, in an effort to shed light on my concerns, I requested that the
Director of National Intelligence quickly declassify my letter and the
Administration's response to it and make them both available to the public.
"The President must have the best possible intelligence to protect the
American people. That intelligence, however, must be produced in a manner
consistent with our Constitution and our laws, and in a manner that reflects
our values as a nation to protect the American people and our freedoms."
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