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> Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:27:16 -0700 (PDT)

> [apfn-1] The Gestapo and The Central

> Intelligence Agency might have common grounds very

> soon

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> The Gestapo and The Central Intelligence Agency

> might have common grounds very soon

 

> 08/17/2004 19:11

> Representative Porter Goss, Bush " s favorite for the

> head of the CIA, has introduced legislation that

> would allow the Central Intelligence Agency to

> conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United

> States-including arbitrary arrests of American

> citizens.

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> The legislation, H.R. 4584, was put on the floor on

> 16 June 2004, under the guise of " intelligence

> reform " . The changes would reverse a 57 year old

> ruling that disallowed the CIA from conducting

> internal law enforcement activities. The bill would

> give the CIA broader authority to include arresting

> Americans suspected of what ever might be

> arbitrarily deemed as suspicious. Apparently there

> is not going to be any hard and fast rules - only a

> perspective judgment call " I think this person may

> be a crimer " .

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> The bill " s language is not fully known yet, but it

> would add the clause " except as otherwise permitted

> by law or as directed by the president " . This would

> give Bush the ultimate retaliatory weapon against

> his critics which he deems as " unpatriotic " and

> " anti-American " .

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> The Pentagon has also demanded new enforcement

> powers to conduct intelligence operations (Search

> and destroy?) inside the United States. A proposal,

> adopted last spring by the Senate Intelligence

> Committee at the request of the Pentagon, eliminates

> the privacy act.

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> Democrats are concerned that the Florida Republican,

> Porter Goss, a former CIA officer himself who has

> chaired the House Intelligence Committee, has been

> too partisan and too close to the Bush White House.

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> In the upcoming confirmation hearings, Goss may come

> under heavy fire for his attitudes toward civil

> liberties. His bill clearly indicates congress

> needs to look more deeply into Goss. But on the

> other hand, if the confirmation hearing committee

> members give Goss too bad of a time, they will feel

> the sting of the lash after Goss is confirmed. A

> frightening prospect.

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> Goss will be confirmed, we know that already - and

> the Democrats will have to table their fears or they

> will be branded as obstructionist to national

> security. Ergo: enemies of the state, very worrisome

> words that are circulating from within the White

> House now.

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