EXCEMPT THE CIA FROM THE TORTURE PROHIBITION

THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO EXEMPT THE CIA FROM THE TORTURE PROHIBITION

That's right. There are evil forces still working behind the scenes to try to cut the heart out of the anti-torture provision, which was passed 90-9 by the Senate, in the conference on the defense bill with the House. What part of NO TORTURE don't they get? They want to cut the CIA a blanket "get out of atrocity free" card, in actual effect, by omission, to AUTHORIZE torture by its worst offenders. Please contact all your members of the House and Senate at once and tell them this attempt to subvert the will of the people is a further outrage!

http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm

The fingerprints of shadowy "security agency" operatives are all over Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, and all the other reprehensible conduct that the overwhelmingly supported McCain amendment was passed to address. And the worst culprits must NOT be allowed to escape the reach of its intent. In particular, leading the charge on the conference committee will be three of the only nine senators who voted FOR more torture, Ted Stevens (AK), Thad Cochran (MS) and Kit Bond (MO), so if you are from any of these states, your voices and those of all your friends are especially needed now.

http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm

STOP HARRIET MIERS FROM CROWNING BUSH AS KING

This is all the more reason to oppose the appointment of Harriet Miers, who they want to install as yet another rubberstamp crony for the Bush imperial power grab. So greedy is the right wing for absolute power in every respect they want, there are some reactionary commentators who are complaining that they have not been assured that Miers is radical enough for them. This is our nomination to stop, and then we can move on to the REAL struggle which is to fight for a true moderate as the next appointee. Click on the link below also and you can submit both action pages with the same contact information.

STOP MIERS IN HER TRACKS at http://www.nocrony.com

We can take no satisfaction with someone just because they don't fulfill EVERYTHING on the wish list of the other side. We must stand up for what WE want and believe. Most of all we must build a national consensus that any new Supreme Court appointees must be true moderates at the worst. We can TAKE ADVANTAGE of the silly opposition of the neocon think tankers who are so intellectually greedy they will not settle for another clone vote like Thomas. Let them hold out for an "in our face" reactionary scholar. In the meantime we must all speak out on the absent merits of Miers and reject her OURSELVES as nothing more than a faith-based crony.

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"No sage or savior has ever endorsed greed and gluttony as a path toward social justice or personal fulfillment. These sane and enlightened people come to us from all cultures and all eras, sometimes knowing of each other but more often not. Socrates and Jesus, Lao Tzu and Tolstoi, Gandhi and Martin Buber -- no one can find in their lives and words a jot of support for a political and economic regime that encourages the acquisition of wealth far beyond what is needed for the necessaries -- or even the restorative pleasures -- of life while consigning the masses to live and work in squalor."
-Stephen J. Fortunato, Associate Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court.

"Music is prophecy, its style and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society. It makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible."
-Jacques Attali in his seminal text "Noise"

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Intelligence Czar Creates New Clandestine Service
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2979
By Jim Kouri, CPP
October 16, 2005

Last Thursday, in a memorandum to the National Association of Chiefs of Police, John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, and Porter Goss, Director of Central Intelligence, announced the creation of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA.

The hope is that this initiative will strengthen the direction and leadership of human intelligence throughout the intelligence community. The plan reflects the thinking of some of the most seasoned veterans in human intelligence collection, men and women with decades of experience in the field.

During a press conference, Director Goss said, "The decision to create the NCS at CIA underscores CIA�s proud position as the center of gravity for [human intelligence] in our intelligence community. No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence." Goss added, "The announcement represents a grant of trust and an expression of confidence in CIA from the President, the DNI, and our partners throughout government."

The National Clandestine Service will incorporate the current Directorate of Operations and will be led by the Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS) to whom the D/CIA will delegate his day-to-day National HUMINT Manager responsibilities. The D/NCS will coordinate and assess HUMINT operations throughout the IC and will report directly to the D/CIA. The D/NCS will also work with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to implement the DNI's statutory authorities.

The D/NCS will be assisted by two deputies -- one will lead the daily activities of the CIA's Clandestine Service while the other will focus on human intelligence activities across the IC.

"These changes hold the potential to make our HUMINT operations better than they were before�from training and tradecraft to technology and counterintelligence," Goss said. "They hold the potential to make our Intelligence Community even more of a Community. It is up to us to make that potential real, and in the process to make the United States safer and stronger. I have every confidence that we will meet that goal."

Many police commanders believe this new intelligence initiative is the result of US law enforcement complaints regarding the quality of strategic and tactical intelligence. One member of the Chiefs of Police Association went as far as claiming the intelligence community -- especially the CIA -- has become more of a think tank than an operational intelligence agency. Also, a major complaint was the reliance on technology as opposed to human intelligence gathering.

Part of the new Clandestine Service is the development of informants throughout the world. During the Clinton Administration, as a result of an executive order, the CIA was prohibited from employing informants who were "unsavory characters." These unsavory characters included former terrorists, drug traffickers, gun runners, international criminals and other who might have access to the global underworld and terrorism network. The new initiative is a complete about-face for government intelligence agencies.

The White House, the CIA, and the Wilsons
The Weekly Standard - Oct 15, 2005
... with intense interest the story of Joseph Wilson and the events that led to the compromising of his wife's identity and undercover status as a CIA operative. ...
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