Fail: 47 of 100 US Senators failed to attend a classified briefing on Thursday afternoon about NSA spying...

Apparently, 53 thought going home early for the weekend was paramount. Guess what. They won't release a list of the names of those who failed to attend.

Via Breitbart:

Less than half (47) of US Senators attended a classified briefing on Thursday afternoon, instead choosing to head home for the weekend.  The briefing was with “with James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and other officials.”
Wow.

The last vote in the Senate was on Thursday around noon, so our elected officials chose to take advantage of the early weekend and leave town.  ”Only 47 of 100 senators attended the 2:30 briefing, leaving dozens of chairs in the secure meeting room empty as Clapper, Alexander and other senior officials told lawmakers about classified programs to monitor millions of telephone calls and broad swaths of Internet activity.”

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