White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board.
On Friday, the White House issued a new executive order effectively gutting the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), “created in 1976 in the wake of widespread abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies.” Under the order, many of the IOB’s investigative powers will now be transfered to DNI Mike McConnell. “Rather than intelligence agencies reporting their activities to the board for review, they will now report them to McConnell,” the AP notes. Smintheus has more.
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Obama will fix it.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 pmHow much more damage can this administration inflict in the until January 2009? A hell of a lot!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pmMore TREASON from the Bush WAR CRIMINALS.
I can’t WAIT until they go to TRIAL for TREASON and GENOCIDE.
And DROP DEAD in jail!!
I will CELEBRATE those days….
“WHO’S ’sane’, HUSSEIN?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pmNOT ‘Bomb Bomb Iran’ McCain!!”
Why not just grant a blanket pardon for everyone in your adiminstration george, then resign so cheney can pardon you?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pmOversight? We don’ need no steenkin’ oversight.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pmThis way they can hurry up and lose all the electronic records associated with IOB activity before they have to leave D.C.
It’s clean-up time in DC for the gop criminals - they’re all rushing around destroying evidence before it’s too late.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pmI have heard 9/11 and the War In Error in Iraq was due to massive intelligence failures.
Ayup. Draw you own conclusions to my complete agreement to this Conventional Wisdom, applied unconventionally of course.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pmboy, do I ever REALLY miss having Nixon to kick around. Tricky Dick looks like an alter boy compared to this asswhole.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 pmFox guarding the henhouse??????????
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pmWhy not just grant a blanket pardon for everyone in your adiminstration george, then resign so cheney can pardon you?
I don’t put this past GDumbya. This move to neuter the IOB is incredible! The fear that GDumbya has of being exposed and held accountable is so obvious. I really don’t think that it will take very long for the truth of this administration’s deceit, immorality, incompetence and lawlessness to be fully revealed after he is gone.
GDumbya will have no positive legacy. He will go down in history as the worst president ever and it won’t take very long after his departure for his epitaph to be written — no matter how much he may try to muzzle whistle-blowers, prevent legal discovery or prop up his “propagandistic” library.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pmwho created the IOB? congress?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:33 pmand this prick can just undo it? huh???
Words that do not go together:
Jumbo shrimp
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmMilitary Intelligence
President Bush
“Round up the usual suspects….” — Captain Renau…. — ummm, sorry, McConnell….
So they really think that reporting to that lying sack’o’shite partisan tool is gonna make things look kosher, eh?
Cheers,
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmi dunno, but this sounds fairly outrageous, scary outrageous…
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmshades of things to come?
the criminals are scramblin’ around, ditching the evidence…
and SOMEbody better step in and stop it…
like NOW.
Once again Dumbya jerks to the twitching strings of his masters.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pmWorst president ever, yes, but the full knowledge that he is, and always has been, a mere puppet of corporate greed and corruption will leave an indelible stain on America.
He is, therefore, first and foremost; a traitor to the Constitution of the United States, and the American people.
Well the lack of oversight before the board worked so well.
In fact it worked so well, the board was formed to stem the abuses.,
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pmFWIW, I’d note that it wasn’t until 1978 that the FISA laws were passed, well after Carter came into office and replaced the Republican administration.
Maybe we have some hope of laying out all the abuses and correcting them … as lng as we don’t let them steal the election!!!
Cheers,
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pmIf Cheney shoots Pelosi in the face with a shotgun, will that, perhaps, put something on the table??? What will it take for Congress to wake up and remember that Oversight is their responsibility????? Anybody want to bet that this doesn’t, in any way, shape, manner or form, affect that pillar of our national security, the Retroactive Immunity Shrine??? I was around for Nixon and that was when Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, stood up and Did their Jobs! The President could play baseball using live puppies for balls and Congress wouldn’t do a thing!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Comment by Arn Gunnutes — March 3, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
Arn - can I make a suggestion? Please stop shouting at us. I know you are one of the good guys but I never read anything you write because I don’t like being shouted at. When you bold your text, you are shouting. When you bold and capitalize text, you are screaming.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pmIt was created by Executive Order, and can be disbanded by Executive Order. The next POTUS can re-create it if he/she so chooses.
Comment by good_golly — March 3, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
You forgot to end the post with your fascist salute - TARD! ;)
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pmWhy is Bush dismantling a Reagan EO [12333]?
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pmgigi, will you ask your husband to stop calling me, he’s starting to creep me out.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pmThis is the next step in the Conservative coup d’etat.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pmOh, just @#$%^&* lovely…NOT!
Yet again, Bush has decided that it’s perfectly safe and perfectly appropriate to give a governmental agency the ability and the permission to police itself. Human nature being what it is, this effectively means “as long as you’re careful and make certain that you don’t get caught, you can do whatever you — and most importantly, I — want to do.”
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm23 Well, Goony, TP won’t do anything about you either, so I reckon we’re even.
So shut up, ya disagreeable cretin.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pmI guess most of us figured that someone who wanted to become President would at least be reverent to the bill of rights and the Constitution, at least a little. But Bushboy has no concept what he has done, yet he and he alone is totally responsible, cus he is the President.
Thats why I find it hard to listen to folks who the first thing they say is hang Pelosi and what the hell is congress doing? Do you know how badly Bushco has screwed things up not only his section of goverment but the Congress and Courts as well.
I am trying to say, it would be nice to keep the rage in perspective, and realize that for all of us, this President has taken this country way out there, and if God willing we have an election, then we can hopefully go back to where we before this RePUG jerk came along.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pmWhy did Bush neutralize the Intelligence Oversight Board?
http://www.dailykos.com/ storyonly/ 2008/ 3/ 3/ 12159/ 20209
…
President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) was established by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976 as “a White House entity with oversight responsibility for the legality and propriety of intelligence activities. The Board, which reports to the President, is charged primarily with preparing reports ‘of intelligence activities that the IOB believes may be unlawful or contrary to Executive order or Presidential directive.’ The Board may also refer such reports to the Attorney General. This standard assists the President in ensuring that highly sensitive intelligence activities comply with law and Presidential directive. In 1997, the IOB was made a standing committee of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB).”
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pmhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=President’s_Intelligence_Oversight_Board
on the other hand, i find this:
Executive Order 12334 — President’s Intelligence Oversight Board
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pmThere is hereby established within the White House Office, Executive Office of the President, the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board, which shall be …
Ronald Reagan
The White House,
December 4, 1981
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/ archives/ speeches/ 1981/ 120481e.htm
Yeah, but what is so frustrating is that congress (as a whole) COULD fix fix the system if they had the country’s best interests in mind, yet they sit by and make us HOPE that the NEXT election will be the one that makes the difference. I have this nagging suspicion that I am in for a let down even greater than the one after the 2006 elections. I hope I am wrong - but the hair on the back of my neck stands up every time someones says “just wait until January”.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmIt’s obvious to me that Bushco is fighting a rearguard action to prevent any examination of this administration’s actions. Lost e-mails, telecom immunity. refusal to testify, Cheney’s executive yet non-exutive privileges and the Dems still don’t get it!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pmWhy dont they just let Bush investigate himself? He could stand in front of a mirror and read whatever request he have and then nod approvingly to himself. For a wartime president I’m sure its somehow “unconstitutional” for him not to have both investigative and executive power. Its the invexestigutive privilege he needs needs to protect the constitution
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pmI thought congress had so many days to act on an executive order to keep it from becoming law. I could be wrong. But if I’m right, this is something we need to contact our representatives about.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 pmits only the beginning. bush is liberated. the next 10 months will be the equivalent of wilding on a national scale. bush will be living out on the grandest of scales every petulant, fratboy, nasty bully fantasy he’s ever had wrecking what remains of the US just for spite. the depths of his destruction will know no bounds.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm.
its all over.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 pmWhite House + gutted Intelligence Oversight Board = Cover-Up.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm“Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 pmThe bill reversing this travesty is advocated in Public Citizen’s online letter for your Senator.
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Bush denying access to “the dustbin of history�
By: bluegal @ 2:09 PM - PST
Some of us progressives have comforted ourselves that after the Bush administration is over, the history books will finally tell the truth. Not so fast. History News Network (George Mason Univ.):
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The bill reversing this travesty is advocated in Public Citizen’s online letter for your Senator.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm