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nationalsecurityact https://www.dailykos.com/news/nationalsecurityact News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:53:54 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:53:54 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Wheeler's Debut: "The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/3/13/1284526/-Wheeler-s-Debut-The-White-House-Has-Been-Covering-Up-the-Presidency-s-Role-in-Torture-for-Years Absolutely brilliant and extraordinarily authoritative! I'm talking about Marcy Wheeler's debut article over at The / / Intercept, published just over an hour ago. Once again, if you have any questions as to why Newsweek refers to Ms. Wheeler as, "<a href="http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/10/04/the-woman-who-knows-the-nsa-s-secrets.html">The Woman Who Knows The N.S.A.'s Secrets</a>" (and the secrets of our entire security state, including the Central Intelligence Agency), they'll be answered in your first read of this exceptionally powerful, fact-filled, incredibly well-researched article... <blockquote><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/13/president-obama-covering-presidencys-role-torture-4-years/">The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years</a> By <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/marcy-wheeler/">Marcy Wheeler</a> The / / Intercept Mar 13, 2014, 4:18 PM EDT The fight between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over the Committee’s Torture Report – which Dan Froomkin <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/11/cia-search-congressional-computer-sparks-constitutional-crisis/">covered here</a> – has now zeroed in on the White House. Did the White House order the CIA to withdraw 920 documents from a server made available to Committee staffers, as Senator Dianne Feinstein <a href="http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=db84e844-01bb-4eb6-b318-31486374a895">says</a> the agency claimed in 2010? Were those documents – perhaps thousands of them – pulled in deference to a White House claim of executive privilege, as Senator Mark Udall and then CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/799469/qfr-udall-preston-8-09-13-responses.pdf">suggested</a> last fall? And is the White House continuing to withhold 9,000 pages of documents without invoking privilege, as McClatchy <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/12/221033/despite-vows-of-help-white-house.html">reported</a> yesterday? We can be sure about one thing: The Obama White House has covered up the Bush presidency’s role in the torture program for years. Specifically, from 2009 to 2012, the administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase, describing President Bush’s authorization of the torture program, secret. </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (bobswern) AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion Barack Obama BarackObama DianneFeinstein George Bush GeorgeBush GeorgeTenet Interrogation JaneHarman JaneMayer JimJones JohnRizzo MarcyWheeler Mark Udall MarkUdall MichaelHayden nationalsecurityact Recommended StephenPreston StevenAftergood Torture _1284526 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:04:24 +0000 Tapes & Torture II: Can Democrats Count to 8? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/14/420032/-Tapes-Torture-II-Can-Democrats-Count-to-8 In an <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/11/85911/066/476/420580">earlier diary</a> I alluded to the possibility that, with so many stories on torture and tapes hitting at once, it would be easy for details to be lost.   One example of a buried lede that seems determined to stay buried is found in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html">Washington Post story</a> by Warrick and Eggen (assists White, Pincus and Tate) about the Congressional briefings on torture.  Sources for that story seem to have had a virtual laundry of goals, but in the efforts to frame the story in a way that makes sources comfortable that "their side" has been told, WaPo flits right past the aspect of the story that shows unequivocally that the Bush administration was breaking the law in its briefings. rss@dailykos.com (Mary2002) All gangof8 Harry Reid HarryReid Nancy Pelosi NancyPelosi nationalsecurityact Torture _420032 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:23:09 +0000 Spygate: Illegal in Many Ways https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/5/176431/-Spygate-Illegal-in-Many-Ways <a href="http://smokeymonkey.org/geeklog/public_html//article.php?story=20060105082557729">Crossposted from SmokeyMonkey.org</a>. Rep. Jane Harman has suggested in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/politics/05nsa.html">this NY Times article</a>: <blockquote>...the briefings [to the 'gang of eight'] did not comply with the National Security Act of 1947. That law requires the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to be "kept fully and currently informed" about the spy agencies' activities.</blockquote> The article continues: <blockquote>Ms. Harman wrote in her letter that the law allowed briefings to be limited to the eight leaders only in cases of covert action. The National Security Agency program does not qualify as a covert action, which the law says does not include activities whose "primary purpose is to acquire intelligence," she wrote.</blockquote> Although she is actually for NSA spying, this insight could be more useful in prying open the door to get some light on this monster in the closet.  Let's take a look at the law below. rss@dailykos.com (smokeymonkey) JaneHarman nationalsecurityact NSA Spygate _176431 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:33:25 +0000 Saturday Matinee: The Secret Government https://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/10/170935/-Saturday-Matinee-The-Secret-Government This is an excellent expose' on our national security state as established by the National Security Act of 1947. With foreboding clarity Moyers warns of the dangers of a secret, extra-constitutional establishment which operates outside of public knowledge or accountability. THE SECRET GOVERNMENT - The Constitution In Crisis Bill Moyers, Secret Government, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) 1987 In Windows Media (WMV) format. <a href="http://www.americanassembler.com/video/moyers_secret_govt1.wmv">Part 1</a> <a href="http://www.americanassembler.com/video/moyers_secret_govt2.wmv">Part 2</a> rss@dailykos.com (labor2) BillMoyers CIA Iran-Contra nationalsecurityact Secrecy _170935 Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:50:14 +0000