Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights
A good read for sure. This article very plainly details what is publicly known about the illegal* activities that the CIA is participating in within the United States.
(*irregardless of executive orders, the U.S. constitution still provides absolute protection from illegal detention, and guarantees due process. Even fanatically right-wing "strict constructionists" (read: Antonin Scalia) would be hard pressed to find an exception for times of war - because it doesn't exist.)
For anyone with an even limited memory, this entire scene should seem very reminiscent of the bad old days when Hoover/Nixon/Kissinger & Co. were running wild, and abused their authority so egregiously that congress was finally forced to pass laws making all of this bullshit illegal.
And Let's not forget, it was the arrogant excesses of the CIA that sunk us into this whole mess in the first place, (Bin Laden, the Shah, Lebanon, etc...) so it is nothing but insanity to trust them to digs us out of it now, especially with a hack pig like Porter Goss running the show.
A good read for sure. This article very plainly details what is publicly known about the illegal* activities that the CIA is participating in within the United States.
(*irregardless of executive orders, the U.S. constitution still provides absolute protection from illegal detention, and guarantees due process. Even fanatically right-wing "strict constructionists" (read: Antonin Scalia) would be hard pressed to find an exception for times of war - because it doesn't exist.)
For anyone with an even limited memory, this entire scene should seem very reminiscent of the bad old days when Hoover/Nixon/Kissinger & Co. were running wild, and abused their authority so egregiously that congress was finally forced to pass laws making all of this bullshit illegal.
And Let's not forget, it was the arrogant excesses of the CIA that sunk us into this whole mess in the first place, (Bin Laden, the Shah, Lebanon, etc...) so it is nothing but insanity to trust them to digs us out of it now, especially with a hack pig like Porter Goss running the show.
