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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (494674)7/13/2009 7:56:18 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574761
 
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan

Initiative at heart of spat with Congress examined ways to seize, kill terror chiefs

foxnews.com

How dare they! Thank God, Democrats have ended this criminal plot.

But they're still mad cause they didn't get a chance to leak it to the NYT like they did the terror finance tracking program and the communications surveillance program.



To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (494674)7/13/2009 9:39:33 AM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574761
 

You can't have a democracy if you have a secret branch of government operating without the oversight of our elected representatives, even if that means Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner...


You MUST have a way of protecting intelligence secrets from a Congress who can't keep secrets. And the National Security Act has been construed as permitting secrets to be hidden from Congress.

This is going nowhere.



To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (494674)7/13/2009 12:30:06 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574761
 
SD, > It's against the law for the CIA not to inform congress of their activities.

What's the big deal? Pelosi was informed about waterboarding, yet she didn't give a f--- until it became a political issue.

If it breaks the law, fine, it breaks the law, but you're hardly going to find anyone who thinks having a "secret counterterrorism program" is necessarily a bad thing.

Tenchusatsu