Military Is Expanding Its Intelligence Role in U.S.
Just an article that reports some information that I believe everyone ought to be aware of.
A quote from this article in the New York Times:
"Some national security experts and civil liberties advocates are troubled by the C.I.A. and military taking on domestic intelligence activities, particularly in light of recent disclosures that the Counterintelligence Field Activity office had maintained files on Iraq war protesters in the United States in violation of the military’s own guidelines. Some experts say the Pentagon has adopted an overly expansive view of its domestic role under the guise of “force protection,” or efforts to guard military installations.
“There’s a strong tradition of not using our military for domestic law enforcement,” said Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, a former general counsel at both the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. who is the dean at the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific. “They’re moving into territory where historically they have not been authorized or presumed to be operating.”"
And, another article worth reading might be this one:
Deletions in Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns
1 comment:
I read all of it. It's very disturbing. Rumsfeld has a lot to answer for, at home as well as overseas. I also think this is just one aspect of Bush's expansion of executive power well beyond the intent of the Constitution: The Imperial presidency.
I also think millions of Americans have a lot to answer for, by watching football or videos when they should be keeping up with politics and letting their voices be heard. It will end in some sort of Constitutional crisis, some day in the future.
Plato said it well, 2,400 years ago: "The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves."
-- Carlitos
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