Some Things Make Me Very Nervous...
and this news story has just raised my anxiety level.
Growing Pentagon intelligence activities at home and abroad have caused CIA Director Porter J. Goss and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to reach a new written agreement to prevent conflicts and overlap in spying, technical collection and analysis between their two organizations, according to senior officials at both agencies. [emphasis added]
The Pentagon and CIA are engaged in intelligence activities here, in the US, on our soil?
But wait, there's more:
White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, who was in charge of studying how to integrate intelligence restructuring recommended by the Silberman-Robb presidential commission, told reporters last week that Rumsfeld was reviewing the future role of a little-publicized Pentagon group known as the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA).
Formed in 2002, CIFA was established to oversee Defense Department counterintelligence investigations and training and to assess potential terrorist threats at home and abroad. It has gathered domestic and international data, including criminal, financial, credit and other records, as well as background information about foreign workers and scientists employed by the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies.
One of the Silberman-Robb panel recommendations was that CIFA be given "new counterespionage and law enforcement authorities to investigate national security matters and crimes including treason, espionage . . . or terrorist-directed sabotage." The panel said this authority could be granted to CIFA by a DNI directive. Townsend said the question was whether an enhanced CIFA should remain within the Pentagon. [emphasis added]
So, there you have it, folks. The Pentagon and CIA are operating here in the US, keeping an eye on us, our financial and credit records, and a panel appointed by the President is recommending they be given law enforcement powers.
Orwell and Huxley were prophets. We just didn't listen closely enough.
Growing Pentagon intelligence activities at home and abroad have caused CIA Director Porter J. Goss and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to reach a new written agreement to prevent conflicts and overlap in spying, technical collection and analysis between their two organizations, according to senior officials at both agencies. [emphasis added]
The Pentagon and CIA are engaged in intelligence activities here, in the US, on our soil?
But wait, there's more:
White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, who was in charge of studying how to integrate intelligence restructuring recommended by the Silberman-Robb presidential commission, told reporters last week that Rumsfeld was reviewing the future role of a little-publicized Pentagon group known as the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA).
Formed in 2002, CIFA was established to oversee Defense Department counterintelligence investigations and training and to assess potential terrorist threats at home and abroad. It has gathered domestic and international data, including criminal, financial, credit and other records, as well as background information about foreign workers and scientists employed by the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies.
One of the Silberman-Robb panel recommendations was that CIFA be given "new counterespionage and law enforcement authorities to investigate national security matters and crimes including treason, espionage . . . or terrorist-directed sabotage." The panel said this authority could be granted to CIFA by a DNI directive. Townsend said the question was whether an enhanced CIFA should remain within the Pentagon. [emphasis added]
So, there you have it, folks. The Pentagon and CIA are operating here in the US, keeping an eye on us, our financial and credit records, and a panel appointed by the President is recommending they be given law enforcement powers.
Orwell and Huxley were prophets. We just didn't listen closely enough.
posted by Diane at 7:54 AM
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