the proposed program before it was finally approved so they were in before the thing was actually put into place. and what about the chair, the chairman and the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee and the house intelligence committee at that time? were they told about what you guys at the cia were doing? yes. the program officially began when i received the memorandum from the department of justice approving the techniques. do you remember who you briefed specifically? i was not in that particular briefing. but it was originally the chairman was a democrat senator. jay rock feller? no. before him. senator bob graham. and the ranking member, the republican member at this point, it escapes me. i m sorry. then the election of 2002 happened. the senate flipped to republicans. jay rockefeller was brought in.
parties in parliament called on murdoch to dump his plans to pursue it. at least four members of the u.s. congress want the government to investigate whether u.s. citizens were victims of phone hacking by murdoch s media outlets. international journalists were attempted to hack into the phone messages of 9/11 victims. > ruling party officials say mr. salih will go back after he s 4 surgery. those are the headlines. those are the headlines in cnn in london. world business today starts now. very good morning to you from cnn rome. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m pauline chu and this is world business today. these are the top stories on this thursday, july 14th. running on empty and running out of time on both sides of the atlantic. there s a tense stalemate in washington as lawmakers fail yet again to head off the looming debt default. meanwhile, italy races to push through austerity measures and restore confidence in the country s economy. plus, rupert
do we still get to go skiing? sooner or later, you ll know our name. sun life financial. that the defense of marriage act known as doma is unconstitutional. doma defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. it passed in 1996 with the support of such liberal senators as joe biden, harry reid, barbara mccan you ski, pat lay hee, jay rock feller, and paul
he there are some concerns. some talk about the potential economic impact saying, we must call a time-out on the regulations. the obama administration seems unlikely to do that. they don t seem to take the hint from the mid-term election is the agenda is waiting to be reviver. they are going to regulate and they couldn t legislate. even with the republicans taking control of the house and more republicans in the senate, some experts say there is little they can do to stop the e.p.a. from moving forward but they are expected to try. shannon: thank you, mike. senator jay rock feller is asking for update on the government investigation in the april fifth, upper big branch mine explosion. rockefeller says families of the 29 miners that were killed haven t been briefed since september.
he there are some concerns. some talk about the potential economic impact saying, we must call a time-out on the regulations. the obama administration seems unlikely to do that. they don t seem to take the hint from the mid-term election is the agenda is waiting to be reviver. they are going to regulate and they couldn t legislate. even with the republicans taking control of the house and more republicans in the senate, some experts say there is little they can do to stop the e.p.a. from moving forward but they are expected to try. shannon: thank you, mike. senator jay rock feller is asking for update on the government investigation in the april fifth, upper big branch mine explosion. rockefeller says families of the 29 miners that were killed haven t been briefed since september.