- The much heralded passage of the Intelligence Reform
Bill has much more in common with the secret agenda of the USA PATRIOT
Act than with real reform. To be frank, US intelligence agencies don't
lack for good intelligence. They have it in abundance, especially considering
their access to Israeli intelligence (composed of human spies on the ground,
that are the best in the world at infiltrating the Islamic world). The
real problem with US intelligence is the suppression and manipulation of
the data that is done to suit the political agenda of both Republican and
Democratic globalist leaders. Not only is this great evil not going to
change, but it will be enhanced with the passage of this legislation.
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- Here's a current example of manipulation of intel: The
Washington Post reported that, "A senior CIA operative who handled
sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that CIA managers asked him to falsify
his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated against him
after he refused - The subject of that reporting has been blacked out by
the CIA, and the word Iraq, does not appear in the heavily redacted version
of the complaint, but other language and context make clear the officer's
work related to prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."
In other news, it was reported by DemocracyNow.com that, "A veteran
sergeant who told his commanding officers that he witnessed his colleagues
torturing Iraqi detainees was strapped to a gurney and flown out of Iraq
- even though there was nothing wrong with him." These are the kinds
of unauthorized leaks the new Intelligence reforms aim to stop.
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- Let's first look at the office of the new intelligence
"czar," the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The original
Bush proposal called for an all powerful czar who would control hiring,
firing, the flow of all intelligence, and the budgets of the dozen or more
smaller intelligence outfits. Rather than reform anything, the White House
was and is intending to lock down the intelligence community into a rigid
body of yes-men, completely subservient to the globalist agenda. This kind
of lockdown would involve regular suppression of any intelligence and analysis
that is critical of US errors or that focuses on the real growing threats
presented by Russia, China and their allies in Asia, Latin America and
the Middle East.
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- With a variety of smaller, competing intelligence agencies
in the US, it has heretofore been difficult to control the minority of
honest agents who see from the raw data that the administration is lying
to the public about the terrorist threat, and covering for Russia and China
and their surrogates who are the real axis of evil. Centralizing control
in one Director of Intelligence would ensure that leaks damaging to the
administration could be better controlled. In addition, having supreme
budget authority, the DNI could starve sub-agencies that are reluctant
to acquiesce to suppression of the truth.
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- Much has been made over the tension between the multiple
intelligence agencies controlled by the Pentagon (comprising about 80%
of the intel budget) and the CIA. But the tension is not simply over money
or turf battles. In years prior to Rumsfeld's control of the Pentagon,
military intelligence was all too aware of the continuing Russian and Chinese
threat - a threat downplayed by the CIA on orders from the White House
(both Clinton and Bush administrations). Now that the neocons are in control
of the Pentagon, they can manipulate and control military intelligence
damaging to Russia or China to a certain extent, preventing information
from going public, but they still are having trouble with the growing dissatisfaction
within the ranks of military intelligence, due to the widening disparity
between truth and the official position.
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- The original intent of the intelligence reforms was to
give the DNI total authority to financially strangle the military intel
agencies and go in and fire dissidents. However, there were last minute
compromises necessary in order to get liberal Republican senators to sign
off on this bad bill. As columnist Jim Lobe wrote, "Indeed, the final
version of the bill goes quite far in insulating the Pentagon from the
impact of the reform. On the purely tactical level, it makes explicit that
the DNI will not be in the chain of command, between the Pentagon-run intelligence
agencies and troops on the ground. But even more important, the DNI, which,
in the earlier version, had been given unlimited authority to allocate
resources among intelligence agencies, will not be permitted to shift any
more than 5% of the funds, or 100 personnel, from any one of them to any
other. In addition, the DNI's hiring and firing powers were essentially
gutted; under the bill, the position is given the right to concur in [their]
appointment,." In reality, however, the limits of the compromise are
more than enough (on an annual basis) to allow the DNI to shut down dissidents,
which will never exceed 100 people each year.
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- This bill is a very carefully crafted maze of nice-sounding
generalities that cover a host of evils - most provisions of which are
classified "top secret" so that neither Congress nor the public
will know what has been enacted in detail. In fact, the writers of the
bill have provided the press with euphemistic summaries that make it appear
as if reform is taking place but without telling the dangerous specifics.
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- For example, summaries of the bill state that it "establishes
a civil liberties protection officer, appointed by the DNI, to ensure policies
and procedures for civil liberty protections; also reviews and assesses
complaints." This sounds good on paper, but the appointment is only
as good as the character of the predictable yes-man that will be allowed
to head this office. I can guarantee that the person chosen will pay lip
service to public concerns, but will always rule against any complainant.
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- The bill "establishes an Intelligence Community
Information Technology Officer to assist the DNI in sharing of information
and developing and implementing an integrated information technology network."
In reality, this officer will be in charge of making sure local agencies
DO NOT receive specific warnings about terrorism - because these warnings
are manufactured out of nearly nothing at the federal level, and they don't
want local law enforcement to see this lack of evidence. Even now, the
DHS issues grandstanding terrorist warnings (based upon mere claims of
"chatter") that never get passed on down the line.
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- The bill "establishes a National Counter Terrorism
Center to serve as the primary organization for analyzing and integrating
all US intelligence pertaining to terrorism and counter-terrorism."
This will be the sub-agency now tasked to filter everything coming out
of military intelligence to ensure all dangerous truths are removed. It
will also be the major enforcer against unauthorized leaks. Henceforth,
all leaks to the media will be authorized and carefully crafted for disinformation
purposes.
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- New Spy satellite program included: The Intelligence
Reform Bill includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that elicited
a strongly worded rebuke from the Democratic leadership. Sen. Jay Rockefeller
(D-WV) voiced the strongest concern, saying that the new spy program was
"totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the
national security." He called the program "stunningly expensive."
Intelligence experts surmise that this could only mean that the US had
hidden in the Intelligence bill funding for a new spy satellite system
that would combine military intelligence with powers to surveil the entire
private communications network - and be resistant to military attack with
EMP or anti-satellite weapons. Secretly spying on private systems is not
only illegal, when done without a specific warrant, but threatens National
Security by putting the government way outside the law. But, what else
is new? The government has been outside the law for decades. It just gets
worse every year.
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- Here are some other nice sounding generalities and what
they really mean:
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- Tracking "lone wolf" terrorists: "Authorizes
federal officials to target and track lone wolf, terrorists who act individually
and free of any terrorist organization." This provision removes the
restriction on federal officials to demonstrate a connection of a suspect
to a foreign terrorist organization. What the public needs to know is that
this section authorizes intelligence agencies to spy on any "suspected"
individual without having to show any documentation connecting him or her
to the mythical "al Qaeda," about which the public is getting
tired of hearing (without any evidence).
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- Cutting off material support for terrorists: "Clarifies
current law, stipulating that those who provide material support to terrorists
or terrorist organizations will be prosecuted and imprisoned. Defines material
support, or resources, as currency or monetary instruments or financial
securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance,
etc." This is so broad as to justify going after any number of legitimate
Islamic charities - as the feds have done recently in court.
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- Continuing to crack down on money laundering and terrorist
financing: "Makes it harder for terrorists to secure financing. Further
improves the tools available to law enforcement to investigate and prosecute
money laundering." These "tools" further invade people's
financial privacy. In addition, the bill "mandates better safeguards
in the financial industry against financial fraud by terrorists and criminals."
This latter part means that the law will require the financial industry
to track lots more personal information about its customers in the name
of fighting terror. This is where we will find more PATRIOT II provisions
being implemented.
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- Enhancing airline security: The bill claims to "improve
the current passenger pre-screening system that more accurately targets
suspected terrorists." Notice that this refers to the "pre-screening"
system - not the current and intrusive screening system of "pat downs"
and strip searches, which is subjecting more and more women to personal
embarrassment. The recent revelations about screeners at Reagan National
airport manually activating alarms so as to have an excuse to do strip
searches on voluptuous women are causing a national uproar (among people
with access to alternative news.) What's more, the strip searches are being
done in rooms that have cameras (sometimes hidden) so that higher officials
can secretly observe the peep show. Do not acquiesce to these demands.
If subjected to a "pat down" be aware that the regulations require
that the screener not be of the opposite sex, and that only the backs of
the hands may be used - not the palms. Know your few remaining rights.
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- It is my belief that the public will be subjected to
increasingly hostile and demeaning "pat downs" so that when Homeland
Security offers the traveling public a chance to be put on a "pre-screened"
list involving bio-metric data (fingerprints, iris scans, DNA samples),
most will jump at the chance. This is yet another example of how government
creates a horrific situation in order to drive people towards a "solution"
they would not normally accept.
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- Enhancing border security: "Doubles the current
number of border patrol officers and triples the number of immigration
enforcement agents." This is useless without changing the regulations
and restrictions that keep agents from going after illegal aliens and targeting
their main crossing points.
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- Improving security identification: "Requires all
drivers' licenses and birth certificates to bear a set of standard characteristics
thereby cutting down on forgeries." Finally, Bush gets his national
ID system in through the backdoor. The bill also "standardizes entry
requirements for all individuals coming into the US, asking anyone coming
from a country other than Mexico and Canada to provide a secure document"
(plus fingerprints). The majority of our immigration problem is from Mexico.
Naturally, Bush exempts our biggest source of illegal entry.
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- Congressman Ron Paul, (R-Tx) one of the few true champions
of liberty in the US Congress, denounced the national ID card provisions
contained in the intelligence bill. Rep. Paul stated in blunt terms, "National
ID cards are not proper in a free societyThis is America, not Soviet Russia.
The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American
citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do soA national
identification card, in whatever form it may take, will allow the federal
government to inappropriately monitor the movements and transactions of
every American.History shows that governments inevitably use such power
in harmful ways."
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- Strengthening the FBI: "Enables the FBI to develop
a specialized workforce with deep expertise in intelligence and national
security. Provides retention bonuses, retirement age waivers and higher
pay for special skills for those who keep us safe at home." What this
does is provide more money for black operations people at the FBI. As in
the military, huge sums of money are now necessary to keep up manpower
levels of the unprincipled people who are willing to do this dirty work.
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- Fostering better cross-cultural understanding: "Creates
a scholarship pilot program to provide opportunities for better cultural
understanding and awareness by students of American-sponsored schools located
in predominately Muslim countries." Notice that this provision would
be ruled unconstitutional if direct aid was being given to a sponsored
school promoting understanding of Christianity. Only terror-sponsoring
ideologies qualify for "mutual understanding" grants.
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- Back-door aid for our terrorist partners: "Requires
the president to develop a strategy for expanding collaboration with the
people and government of Saudi Arabia, including intelligence and security
cooperation in the fight against terrorism, and on matters of political
and economic reform." This is an open door to continue funding secret
collaboration with Saudi Arabia, which, along with Pakistan, is the CIA's
main conduit for channeling black ops funding to the al Qaeda leaders which
it controls.
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- The bill also "encourages Pakistan to continue in
its commitment to combat terrorism, modernize its economy, resolve differences
with its neighbors, reform its education system and make progress in creating
an effective and participatory democracy." Sounds nice, but this merely
sets the stage for a secret aid program to Pakistan and its terror connections.
Note the fine print: "(b) Strategy - Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this act, the president shall transmit to
Congress a detailed proposed strategy for the future, long-term, engagement
of the United States with Pakistan. The strategy required by this subsection
may contain a classified annex." You can imagine why this annex is
classified - the Bush administration doesn't want the public to know.
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- Summary: Because of the secrecy involved in this bill,
we may never know all of its ramifications, but it should be clear from
the above that this administration is still intent on eroding American
civil liberties. Bush is no conservative; he is a script-reading change
agent for his globalist handlers.
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