Bill: CIA Could Arrest US Citizens
Bill: CIA Could Arrest US Citizens
8/16/04
http://www.wishtv.com/global/Story.asp?s=2179492
President Bush's nominee to head the CIA supports legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.
Rep. Porter Goss introduced the legislation in June. The "intelligence reform" bill would create dramatic change in the US intelligence structure by giving the director of Central Intelligence (DCI) broad new powers to oversee its various components scattered throughout the government.
However, less publicized is language in the bill that would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter or possibly overturn a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States.
Civil-liberties advocates are concerned about the language in the bill. It also today prompted one former top CIA official to describe it as a potentially “dramatic� change in the guidelines that have governed U.S. intelligence operations for more than a half century, Newsweek reports.
If this is freedom, what does repression look like?
As long as one man is in prison, no man is free!
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8/16/04
http://www.wishtv.com/global/Story.asp?s=2179492
President Bush's nominee to head the CIA supports legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.
Rep. Porter Goss introduced the legislation in June. The "intelligence reform" bill would create dramatic change in the US intelligence structure by giving the director of Central Intelligence (DCI) broad new powers to oversee its various components scattered throughout the government.
However, less publicized is language in the bill that would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter or possibly overturn a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States.
Civil-liberties advocates are concerned about the language in the bill. It also today prompted one former top CIA official to describe it as a potentially “dramatic� change in the guidelines that have governed U.S. intelligence operations for more than a half century, Newsweek reports.
If this is freedom, what does repression look like?
As long as one man is in prison, no man is free!
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posted by R7 | 8/17/2004 06:24:00 PM
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