Senate to Hold Private Session on Intelligence
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From Times Wire Reports
The Senate will hold its first closed session in five years to discuss the nation’s intelligence-gathering operations.
Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said he and Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) have agreed to the session, which would bar the public and news media, but have not set a date.
The last time the Senate held a closed session was in February 1999, during President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
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