on Goss’s Wish List: authorize the CIA to arrest U.S. citizens

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5675992/site/newsweek/

Goss’s Wish List
Bush’s CIA nominee has alarmed civil libertarians with a plan that would authorize the agency to arrest U.S. citizens.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek


The legislation, introduced by Goss on June 16 and touted as an “intelligence reform” bill, would substantially restructure the U.S. intelligence community by giving the director of Central Intelligence (DCI) broad new powers to oversee its various components scattered throughout the government.

But in language that until now has not gotten any public attention, the Goss bill would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter—if not overturn—a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States.

The language contained in the Goss bill has alarmed civil-liberties advocates. It also today prompted one former top CIA official to describe it as a potentially “dramatic” change in the guidelines that have governed U.S. intelligence operations for more than a half century.

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1. Harry Truman must be spinning in his grave.

He is to have said he had two regrets -- one dropping the second bomb and two - forming the CIA out of the OSS.

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2. "he seems to have his sights set on a much bigger goal , intelligence czar

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x67603

US: If Goss is the Best We’ve Got, We’re All in Trouble

On Wednesday, a Bush administration spokesman declared Porter Goss, the president’s nominee for CIA chief, “…the most qualified man for the job.” This statement came in response to the shocking revelation, supplied by Goss himself, that he was in fact not qualified for the job.

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Even more troubling, while Goss has been a critic of the agency in the past he has also been more often than not a stalwart defender (not to mention a supporter of the infamous Patriot Act II). At a time when all American intelligence services are in dire need of a critical and public overhaul, the last thing the country needs is someone in charge who is both incompetent and prone to hushing up failures.

Despite demurring in March over the prospect of a CIA job, it seems that Goss changed his mind as the months wore on. That he did “not want” the CIA post, however, seems to have little to do with his own concerns over his qualifications; in actual fact, he seems to have his sights set on a much bigger goal – the proposed new office of “intelligence czar:”

“…In June, Goss proposed making the CIA director the intelligence czar, with control over the CIA, responsibility for advising the president and budget authority over all 15 U.S. intelligence agencies. Critics dubbed his legislation the ‘CIA takeover bill.’ The 9/11 Commission said the three jobs are too much for one official.

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3. they should be able to...

But of course following the same procedural requirements police operate by(ie. probable cause).