Bush signs new rules for spy agencies
Charlotte Observer
07/30/08
President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official and government documents. Executive Order 12333, which lays out the responsibilities of each of the 16 agencies, maintains the decades-old prohibitions on assassination and using unwitting human subjects for scientific experiments, according to a power point briefing given to Congress that was reviewed by The Associated Press...
https://tinyurl.com/552hch
Spying in defense of liberty
Crosscut Seattle
by Knute Berger
07/30/08
Barry Goldwater famously said that “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” But I suspect even the late Arizona senator and 1964 GOP presidential candidate might be creeped out if he knew about the privatization of Big Brother. Is it OK for private groups to infiltrate domestic citizen’s groups? Is spying in defense of liberty a virtue or a vice?A recent revelation is in a new story from Mother Jones that reveals that a leading gun control advocate, Mary McFate, is apparently the same person as Mary Lou Sapone, “a self-described ‘research consultant,’ who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.” She was active in anti-gun groups...
https://www.crosscut.com/blog/mossback/16343/Spying+in+defense+of+liberty/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+order
07/30/08
President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official and government documents. Executive Order 12333, which lays out the responsibilities of each of the 16 agencies, maintains the decades-old prohibitions on assassination and using unwitting human subjects for scientific experiments, according to a power point briefing given to Congress that was reviewed by The Associated Press...
https://tinyurl.com/552hch
Spying in defense of liberty
Crosscut Seattle
by Knute Berger
07/30/08
Barry Goldwater famously said that “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” But I suspect even the late Arizona senator and 1964 GOP presidential candidate might be creeped out if he knew about the privatization of Big Brother. Is it OK for private groups to infiltrate domestic citizen’s groups? Is spying in defense of liberty a virtue or a vice?A recent revelation is in a new story from Mother Jones that reveals that a leading gun control advocate, Mary McFate, is apparently the same person as Mary Lou Sapone, “a self-described ‘research consultant,’ who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.” She was active in anti-gun groups...
https://www.crosscut.com/blog/mossback/16343/Spying+in+defense+of+liberty/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+order
rudkla - 31. Jul, 11:50
