Flashback: Hoekstra introduced a bill last March forcing the release of Saddam Docs

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/politics/28intel.html?ei=5088&en=7522b02c7aa72c27&ex=1301202000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1162586321-cP+u6urxTrPWXN1q1pRGMw

Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, and Search Is On
Published: March 28, 2006

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But Representative Peter Hoekstra, the Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and who led the campaign to get the documents released, does not believe they have received adequate scrutiny. Mr. Hoekstra said he wanted to "unleash the power of the Net" to do translation and analysis that might take the government decades.

"People today ought to be able to have a closer look inside Saddam's regime," he said.

Mr. Hoekstra said intelligence officials had resisted posting the documents, which he overcame by appealing to President Bush and by proposing legislation to force the release.

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Conservative publications have pushed for months to have the documents made public. In November, Mr. Hoekstra and Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Negroponte to post the material.

When that request stalled, Mr. Hoekstra introduced a bill on March 3 that would have forced the posting. Mr. Negroponte began the release two weeks later.