Hidden in the CR - Piles of cash

[m3n0z]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/intelligence-spending-bill-senate-committee-appropriations/index.html


Apparently it removes oversight and allows for even more undisclosed black ops. Which just sounds like a blank check for an endless pile of cash.....

Starting to feel like DACA was a decoy........
I wonder what else got in under the radar.....

[riversedge]

1. " inserting a provision into the must-pass spending bill -- at the White House's request "

Sens. Burr, Warner say spending bill limits Congress' authority to oversee intelligence programs
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The two senators lobbied party leaders to remove the provision from the bill
They plan to renew their effort to kill it during the next funding fight

(CNN)The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee are furious at appropriators for inserting a provision into the must-pass spending bill -- at the White House's request -- that they say would strip Congress' authority to direct how the intelligence agencies spend their funds.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/intelligence-spending-bill-senate-committee-appropriations/index.html

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, and the committee's top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, said they were blindsided by the push, and they argued that the change would make it harder for lawmakers to oversee moves by an intelligence community that operates in secret.
Behind the scenes, the two senators lobbied party leaders to remove the provision from the bill to reopen the government -- and they plan to renew their effort to kill the provision during the next funding fight in three weeks, sources said.......




the next funding bill needs to pass.
"It will only last three weeks," Burr said.
"We want to make sure we don't give a blank check to any administration, particularly this administration. We need to get it fixed," said Warner, who added that he was still voting for the underlying spending measure...............

[Skittles]

2. more like a Putin request

[erronis]

4. And any other IC that wants to profit from the dump/US disfunction

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that there are US/five-eye groups that are happy to cash in also.

[bluestarone]

3. i did mention back then to

read the FINE PRINT I knew they'd pull something the assholes

[iluvtennis]

5. Trump is a shithole, shithole, shithole

[imanamerican63]

6. "Nooooo"!