Congress Denies Passing Secret Intelligence Bill

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A number of high ranking lawmakers were hard pressed on the morning talk shows today to dispel rumors of a major intelligence overhaul supposedly passed by Congress earlier this week. Details of the supposed bill, leaked to the press and then spread through the internet rumor mill, eventually resulted in a complaint by the ACLU that it "would centralize the intelligence community's surveillance powers, increasing the likelihood for government abuses." The complaint criticized especially the expansion of wiretap and other surveillance powers and said that the creation of a so-called Civil Liberties Oversights Board was merely a token measure that "risks becoming the proverbial fox guarding the hen house."