An Interview With U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, survived the GOP onslaught on Election Day, but, alas, his chairmanship of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence did not. Now that the Republicans are in the majority in the U.S. House, Reyes and other Democratic chairmen must relinquish their gavels.
Still, Reyes was in good spirits during the week between Christmas and New Year's, when he sat down with the Tribune at one of his favorite Mexican restaurants in El Paso to talk about what happens now: what the 112th Congress will do now the the GOP is running ...
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mirjam eikelboom
The comparison between the transparency people should expect from their governments and the privacy Americans want in their bedrooms is an absolute mystery to me: like comparing pigs to birds and then suggesting they can fly.
I find it extremely patronizing. It makes it seem as if it is ok. for government workers (because that is what diplomats are) to send away their customers and bosses (because that is what the American public are) as if they are a couple of 5 year olds. As billions and billions of taxpayers money are spend by the same government, and those decisions are usually made at the top - I think it is not wrong at all to want them to account for that in writing!!
Also - if there was abuse in that bedroom, would he not want that out and into court??