Angry exchange on Capitol Hill over Cuban Twitter

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was an angry exchange Tuesday between the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees USAID’s budget. Leahy asked during a hearing who was responsible for proposing the Twitter-like social media network that the U.S. government secretly built in Cuba. The hearing took place six days after The Associated Press revealed the program’s existence, and one day after USAID published what it described as a point-by-point rebuttal.

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