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A woman who was kidnapped, and later released, during the weekend in Juárez while on a shopping spree was related to U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, according to The Narco News Bulletin Web site, which is attributing the report and relationship to a DEA official in El Paso.But, though the Web site report states the kidnapped person was Reyes' sister-in-law, another federal agency and other officials are saying that some of the facts in the online report might be wrong, including the connection to Reyes.
According to the Narco News Bulletin, "the abducted woman was the sister of the wife of Reyes, D-Texas, chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The woman was eventually released by her abductors, after they discovered her relationship to the Congressman - indicating that it was a random kidnapping and the perpetrators had enough on the ball to understand the downside of snatching a U.S. Congressman's family member."
Congressman Silvestre Reyes became the first Hispanic to represent the 16th District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. Reyes, a Vietnam combat veteran, served in the U.S. Border Patrol for 26 and a half years prior to his election to Congress, serving both as an agent and sector chief in McAllen and El Paso, Texas. In December 2006, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Reyes Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a committee on which he has served since 2001. His early agenda as Intelligence Chairman includes strengthening U.S. intelligence in Iraq along with conducting focused oversight on intelligence activities that impact the civil liberties of American citizens, including the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. Reyes also serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, a panel composed of Members of the Appropriations and Intelligence Committees established in response 9/11 Commission recommendations to conduct oversight of intelligence program funding.
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