Feinstein wasn't briefed on the bank monitoring program

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| Mon Jul. 3, 2006 12:43 PM PDT

(Via Think Progress.) California' s Sen. Diane Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told George Stephanopoulous on ABC that, contrary to administration assurances that Congress was briefed on the government program that monitors bank records, she wasn't told about it until after word got out the New York Times was publishing the story. See the video.

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