The
chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that
there had been little warning from American intelligence in the run-up to the
Egyptian protests.
Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that there wasn't any real heads-up to the
White House or Congress before the protests broke out.
"I just reviewed all of the
intelligence," Feinstein told MSNBC. "There was a good deal of intelligence about Tunisia, but
virtually nothing about Egypt. So there was, to the best of my
knowledge, no real warning either to the White House or certainly to
the Senate Intelligence Committee or the Congress."
This is the third week of increasingly violent protests in Egypt.
Also
on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden met with Egyptian Vice President
Omar Soliman. According to a White House press release, Biden echoed
calls by members of Congress and President Obama that a governmental
transition happen immediately, including President Hosni Mubarak
stepping down from office. Mubarak has said he will leave his post
before the upcoming fall elections but has not given an exact date.
