Posted on 02/07/2006 7:39:16 PM PST by hipaatwo
There was a reason why only 8 Congress people were given this classified information
and it's because CONGRESS CAN'T BE TRUSTED
And yet at that .. one of the 8 blabbed to the press ..cough Rockefeller
As a Sub Committee Chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, she does not oversee the entire NSA, nor any of it's secret programs. This is just another distortion by the gray Whore -AKA- the NYT's
So she's using this to get reelected?
So who bought her?
Well, that makes more sense. Thanks. It would seem that she isn't fit for that assignment.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/7/172959/4813
NM-01: Madrid, Wilson in Dead Heat
by Patricia Madrid for Congress
Tue Feb 07, 2006 at 03:29:59 PM PDT
Lake Research Partners. 1/25-29. Margin of Error 4.9%. (no trend lines)
Heather Wilson (R) 44%
Patricia Madrid (D) 43%
Ok she is the lead for a SUB committee, but not the head of the entire committee. Not only that I don't think the NSA program falls within the realm of technical nor tactical intelligence. Tactical intelligence should be akin to battlefield intel, hence the ability of different military units or vehicles. Technical would basically be the technology used by the enemy. Neither would be all encompassing of the NSA program.
Oh what the hell - why not invite Al Quada over for a trip through innermost secrets of the NSA and we can just show them how it is done, who we are targeting and what the technical aspects include. What morons we have in the Congress! It is truly disgraceful, having worked with NSA for years this is just incredible.
The next thing you know, they will claim the 2nd Amendment gives you the right to keep and bear arms.
When did he say that?
Heck no. NSA has already written a letter to the "Traitor/Whistle blower Tice" and told him that no one in Congress is cleared to hear anything about NSA's SAP programs that he was involved with. This moron is not going to get to hear anything. STFU (someone post the picture please).
Heather Wilson
House of Representatives (R-NM)
Armed Services Committee: Member
Energy & Commerce Committee: Member
Subcommittee on National Security of Republican Policy Committee: Chair
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last updated: March 1, 2004
Goverment Service
US Air Force (1978-1987)
Defense Planning Officer, NATO (1987-1989)
Defense Policy and Arms Control Director, National Security Council (1989-1991)
Cabinet Secretary, NM Children Youth and Families Dept. (1995-1998)
U.S. House of Representative (1998 to present)
Corporate
Keystone International, Founder and President (1991-1995)
Institutional Affiliations
Association of Commerce and Industry (1992-1995)
Chamber of Commerce (1992-1995)
First United Methodist Church Member
Quality New Mexico, Board of Directors
Republican Policy Committee
Education
Oxford University: MPhil (1984); DPhil in International Relations, Rhodes Scholar (1985)
United States Air Force Academy: B.S. in International Politics (1982) (5)
Contact Information
Washington DC EMail Address:
ask.heather@mail.house.gov
Washington DC Web Address:
http://www.house.gov/wilson
District Address - Albuquerque
20 First Plaza North West, Suite 603
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505-346-6781
Fax: 505-346-6723
Highlights & Quotes
Heather Wilson has represented the 1st Congressional District of New Mexico since June 23, 1998.
Wilson is the first woman veteran in U.S. history to serve in Congress. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (1982), she was a Rhodes Scholar and earned her masters and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University in England . After leaving the Air Force in 1989, she served as Director for European Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff at the White House under President George H.W. Bush. In 1991 Wilson founded Keystone International Inc. to work with senior executives in large American defense and scientific corporations with business development and program planning work in the United States and Russia.
Wilson serves on the House Energy and Commerce (http://energycommerce.house.gov/) and Armed Services Committees (http://www.house.gov/hasc/). She is also the chairperson of the powerful Subcommittee on National Security of the Republican House Policy Committee (http://policy.house.gov/nsfa/).
She has close ties to the radical right wing and has won the Bush administration's high regard. Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush have spoken at fundraisers for Wilson.
As chair of the National Security Subcommittee of the House Policy Committee, Wilson contributed to shaping an increasingly militarist foreign policy of the Bush administration. The committee's February 2003 report Differentiation and Defense: An Agenda for the Nuclear Weapons Program (http://cox.house.gov/files/nuclear_report.pdf), for example, helped to push nuclear policy towards research and development of small "bunker busting" nuclear weapons, an agenda already outlined in the Bush administration's Nuclear Posture Review, which was leaked to the media in January 2002.
Under her leadership, the subcommittee also helped develop the House Policy Statement on Missile Defense. This policy statement suggested that the president was correct to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense Treaty with the Soviet Union and endorsed the Bush administration's plans for global missile defense projects.
On key votes in 2003 (as defined by the organizations themselves), Wilson voted the position of the Christian Coalition 76% of the time (92% of the time in 2002); 62% of the time shared the position of the Eagle Forum (73% in 2002); and 72% of the time for the positions of American Conservative Union (73% in 2002).
She routinely receives scores of 0 from the American Civil Liberties Union, Peace Action, and the Human Rights Campaign. In 2002 she received a 9% score from the League of Conservation Voters.
Campaign Finance
Wilson receives large amounts of money from the very industries she is supposed to be regulating, especially defense contractors and the energy and natural resource industries. In the 2002 election cycle Wilson was the 6 th highest recipient of contributions from the defense industry among House members. For the 2004 election cycle she is 16 th as of February 14, 2004. Her top contributors include Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest military contractor. (1)
She is also the 18 th highest among House members for contributions from the energy and natural resources sector, and ranks 23 among all candidates who receive contributions from energy and natural resource PACs. Most of those funds come from electric utility and oil and gas-related PACs. (2)
In 2002 Wilson received $1,000 from the American Dream Political Action Committee, run by Austin, TX Republican Henry Bonilla. The PAC, which was aimed at supporting ethnic minority Republican candidates, was found to have spent a mere 10% of its resources on donations to candidates and the executive director was found to have embezzled much of the PAC's money. Nearly half of the $10,500 in donations in 2002, or $5,000, went to Bonilla, and only one other donation went to a minority Republican congressional candidate: Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Cuban American from Florida. Wilson was one of the other three recipients, none of whom were minorities. (The other congressional donations went to Rep. Steve Buyer, a white attorney from Indiana; and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a non-minority Dallas businessman). (3)
Data from the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that as of December 31, 2003 Wilson had raised $1.1 million as of February 2, 2004 for the 2004 election cycle with nearly $750,000 cash on hand.(4)
By sector, the combination of individual and PAC donors to her campaign were: (4)
Sector
Total
PACs
Individuals
Agribusiness
$10,400
$1,000
$9,400
Communic/Electronics
$42,250
$36,500
$5,750
Construction
$48,325
$15,000
$33,325
Defense
$44,150
$23,500
$20,650
Energy/Nat Resource
$58,467
$49,017
$9,450
Finance/Insur/RealEst
$81,640
$40,000
$41,640
Health
$19,900
$13,500
$6,400
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$30,000
$5,000
$25,000
Transportation
$23,150
$14,500
$8,650
Misc Business
$48,775
$10,000
$38,775
Labor
$3,000
$3,000
$0
Ideology/Single-Issue
$117,499
$117,499
$0
Other
$61,306
$2,000
$59,306
As of February 14, 2004 the largest donors to her campaign were Republican Party PACs, the defense industry and other large industry associations. The top donors were: (4)
1
Americans for a Republican Majority
$15,000
2
Lockheed Martin
$13,100
3
Credit Union National Assn
$10,000
3
Keep Our Majority PAC
$10,000
3
Leadership PAC 2002
$10,000
6
Rely on Your Beliefs
$8,999
7
KPMG LLP
$7,500
7
National Assn of Home Builders
$7,500
9
Intel Corp
$7,000
10
Science Applications International Corp
$6,300
11
AT&T
$6,000
11
Bolton Inc
$6,000
11
Rmci Inc
$6,000
11
Western Building Supply
$6,000
15
National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn
$5,160
16
Associated Builders & Contractors
$5,000
16
Cmte for the Preservation of Capitalism
$5,000
16
Freedom Project
$5,000
16
Future Leaders PAC
$5,000
16
MCI Group
$5,000
16
National Auto Dealers Assn
$5,000
16
National Cable & Telecomm. Assn
$5,000
16
United Services Automobile Assn Group
$5,000
16
Wal-Mart Stores
$5,000
So who bought her?
I don't know. I don't know anything about her.
At the Gonzalez hearing yesterday
Grandstanding?
LOL!
Cornyn said that former Senator's Daschle and Bob Graham of Florida were briefed and had no disagreements with the information they got from the briefings, and had no disagreements with the way intelligence was being gathered.
Subcommittee on National Security of Republican Policy Committee:
WAIT A SECOND..READ ABOVE..WHAT DOES THIS COMMITTEE HAVE TO DO WITH THE NSA?
And from all that, you deduce what?
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