In 1970 he revealed his intention to subvert America’s ability to defend herself when he publicly stated that “government agencies such as the FBI, Secret Services, intelligence services of other government agencies, and the military should be done away with in that order”.
(Is it any wonder that the Bush Administration would forgo the FISA court?) Read more at Frontpage Mag.
Dang,... didn't Kerry also believe the Intelligence sercies should be shut down back in the 70's?
Presidents used to have very broad authority when it came to national defense and international relations.
But then Nixon severely abused his powers, and FISA was in large part created to prevent further abuses of presidential power.
The executive branch can cry about FISA all it wants, but it's the executive branch's own actions that brought it about.
Oh yeah, forgot, COINTELPRO and others hit around the same time. I can see passing FISA in after mass scandal over executive abuses.
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This is quite eye-opening!
America paid a heavy price for the IPS’s treason — and yet the full bill has yet to be paid. In the meantime, the damage these traitors did, and are still doing through their fellow travellers in the media, academia and the Democratic Party, is severely sabotaging the war on terror.
Fully understanding the vital importance of intelligence to his country’s survival, General George Washington said in 1777:
The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged — all that remains for me to add is, that you keep the whole matter as Secret as possible. For upon secrecy, success depends in Most Enterprises of the Kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned and promising a favorable issue.
If Washington were alive today what would he would make of the Democrats, their media allies and the America-haters at the IPS? Or is that a stupid question?
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Scott Steven Powell wrote a book, "Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute of Policy Studies" in 1988. A review of the book in the National Review stated:
Powell discusses IPS's leading role in the on-going campaign to undermine U S intelligence agencies, in which it has concentrated on persuading Congress to enact legislation to restrict intelligence gathering. The 1975 Hughes-Ryan Amendment, for example, which subjects CIA covert operations to congressional oversight -- in effect creating a permanent "leak mechanism" --grew out of a recommendation by Richard Barnet, in his book "The Economy of Death." In 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act became law, placing additional restrictions on the ability of U S intelligence agencies to monitor the activities of potentially subversive froeign nationals. The Center for National Security Studies, an IPS spinoff, helped draft the new guidelines. All of this has had a "chilling effect" on our ability to gather intelligence overseas, while at the same time compromising our counterintelligence capabilities at home.
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This review was written in 1988 in the National Review, but I never read the book. The review, by itself, was sickening. The tentacles of the IPS have only strengthened since that time, -"probably the major center of left-wing activism in the US. It has extensions into the media, political campaigns, the Congress, and federal policy-making institutions."
"IPS and its overseas arm, the Transnational Institute, maintain regular contact with Eastern European and Latin American Communists."
Bump for later read. Our local talk show host, Jim Quinn, has been talking about this article for several days, but it doesn't look like it's gotten enough exposure yet.
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