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Former NSA Chief Called CIA 'Out of Control'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe CIA is "out of control" and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a recently released record of a 9/11 Commission interview. "The CIA currently doesn't work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn't and it's out of control," says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988. Odom, who also served on the National Security Council staff during the ...
U.S. Government May Have Your Credit Card Records, Too
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFormer intelligence officer turned whistleblower, Russell Tice, added new a new wrinkle to the revelations that under the Bush Administration's directives, the U.S. government spied on its own citizens using then-illegal wiretaps. Interviewed by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Tice detailed how Uncle Sam got into the business of data mining the credit card information of "tens of thousands" of ordinary Americans, and retains that purchase information to this day. Here's the Q & A:So, does it matter whether the federal government knows how many pairs of pants you purchased at J. Crew? Well, yes. Of ...
Intelligence Court Rules Bush Terrorist Surveillance Program is Legal
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident George W. Bush has won a major victory for his legacy building efforts in his final days in office as a special intelligence appeals court has ruled that the Bush Administration's much derided Terrorist Surveillance Program is legal. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review made the ruling in late August, but it is only being made public now. Specifically, the court ruled that Congress acted within its authority in 2007 when it passed the Protect America Act, which codified the existing Bush Administration program with minor, cosmetic changes.The terrorist surveillance ...
Identity of NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program Leaker Revealed
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn December 2005, the New York Times published its famous expose on the NSA's terrorist surveillance program, which may have alerted targets under surveillance to alter their methods of communication, and became a major firestorm of controversy in the Bush Administration's second term. Mislabeling the program "domestic spying," the media and Democrats decried the existence of the program, accusing the White House of prying into the private lives of ordinary Americans. The Administration denounced the leak, but refuses to confirm details of the program even until today. A criminal investigation ...
Federal Judge Rejects Wiretapping Powers
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA federal judge in the Northern District of California has ruled in favor of a challenge to the Bush Administration's terrorist surveillance program, saying that the Executive branch has no authority to conduct warrantless surveillance except under the conditions set forth by Congress in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The lawsuit, brought by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Muslim charity, alleged that the National Security Agency violated the FISA Act when it secretly monitored the foundation's communications under the controversial program. The judge ruled that FISA is ...
McCain Camp: Obama 'Naive' on Terrorism
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyJohn McCain's national security aides today tried to shame Barack Obama for eluding to the idea that the U.S. should take a strictly law enforcement approach to terrorism and should rely on the justice system to give the terrorists their due.Calling Obama's remarks on ABC News yesterday "naive," "dangerous," and full of "ignorance," McCain allies say that's more proof that Obama does not have the experience to sufficiently handle that "3 a.m. phone call." Obama is the "perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset," said McCain foreign policy and national security director, Randy Scheunemann.The ...
Report Faults Bush for Pre-War Statements
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Senate Intelligence Committee has produced an election year report on the pre-war statements of the Bush Administration, concluding that the president and other top Administration officials twisted intelligence, overstated Iraq's links to terrorist groups, and ignored internal intelligence community debate in the run up to the Iraq war. Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) released a statement along with the report, accusing the Administration of an effort to deliberately mislead the public about the danger posed by Saddam Hussein's regime."The president and his advisors [sic] ...
Surveillance Breakthrough?
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyWord has it that the White House is trying to compromise with Congress in order to get a surveillance bill passed soon. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that over the two-week recess, administration officials signaled Democratic leaders on Capital hill that they were open to compromise over immunity provisions that have been a sticking point in updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The administration has been arguing for retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that complied with government wiretapping orders - saying they companies did what they were ...
Surveillance Vote Today
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailySenators are meeting at 10 a.m. today to vote on amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which has some telecommunication companies stuck between a rock and a very hard place.FISA, which prohibits unauthorized electronic surveillance, has been under debate for some time as lawmakers try to decide, among other things, whether to offer retroactive legal immunity to telecom companies being sued for their alleged cooperation with the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program. Various amendments have been brought up, including one by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ...
Presidential Directive Expands Internet Spying
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush signed a directive this earlier this month that expands the role of U.S. intelligence agencies in monitoring internet traffic. The monitoring is intended to protect against and perhaps counteract cyber-attacks on Federal government computer networks.The Federal government says that computer systems maintained by the State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Commerce Departments have all experienced internet attacks in the past eighteen months. The government suspects that Chinese based web sites are behind some of the biggest and most recent attacks. The directive gives the ...
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