Bush to Ignore Rule on Written Notices of Intelligence Actions

Bloomberg.com ^ | Dec. 28 , 2001 | Heidi Przybyla

[74dodgedart]

Crawford, Texas, Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he'll use presidential authority to sidestep a rule requiring his administration to provide Congress with written notice of U.S. intelligence activities.

Bush made the announcement in signing the intelligence authorization act for fiscal year 2002, which includes an amendment stating that reports to Congress should ``always be in written form.''

[74dodgedart]

Checks and balances ? George doesn't need any stinkin' checks and balances and if congress doesn't like it then they must be terrorists.

If you don't like the rule, don't sign the bill.

[dirtboy]

Checks and balances ? George doesn't need any stinkin' checks and balances and if congress doesn't like it then they must be terrorists.

Considering how much Congress has leaked after 9/11, I can't say I blame Bush.

If you don't like the rule, don't sign the bill.

I doubt Bush signed this, it's probably part of the attempts by the Clinton Administration to make intel activities more pure than the Little Sisters of Mercy, and about as effective as Trent Lott.

[sinkspur]

Checks and balances ? George doesn't need any stinkin' checks and balances and if congress doesn't like it then they must be terrorists.

Bush is making a point. He believes Congress leaks like a sieve, and, of course, it does. He doesn't trust certain members to keep their mouths shut.

Notice, since his last blow-up over leaks, Orrin Hatch hasn't been on television once.

They're getting the message.

[Destructor]

Written notices of intellignce actions? I wonder what the b*****ds in Congress will do with written notice of intelligence actions? Go on T.V., and announce the actions to the world, thereby ensuring that more of our operatives and military personnel will get killed, maybe?

[detsaoT]

Try looking at it from a more realistic perspective - With the number of open communists we've got in Clowngress, any reports made to them are BOUND to be leaked to the targets well in advance of any activity.

C'mon, this is a common sense move.

:/ ttt

[vin-one]

Ok, is bloomberg 100% all the time, I'll wait and see what CNN's take on this is,
before I pass judgement. Sounds like congress was trying to cross into someone else's playground again.
Or I could wait for MSNBC,CBS, or see how Dan Blather thinks about it
(sarasm off)

I LIKE BUSH

[Howie66]

With all the bonehead, big mouth louts that are infesting our Congress, President Bush is well within his authority to put the clamps down when our national security is at stake. Just remember back to the days when our troops were coming ashore in Somolia. Some nincompoop opened his/her pie-hole, and there was the press, lights ablaze, to greet our troops. Those press pukes were dammed lucky that someone in charge didn't order the troops to open fire to douse those camera lights. I sure as hell would have.

[Howie66]

Now this is news to me! "Or I could wait for MSNBC,CBS, or see how Dan Blather thinks about it..." Dan Blather "thinks"!? How is that possible? Sure he has that $50 haircut covering his $5 brain housing group, but please let's not issure credit where none is due. IF Mr. Blather were to ever be hit with a thought, I'm afraid that he'd be out cold for days.

[Eva]

With the likes of Leaky Leahy in the Senate, I don't think that we can afford to trust them with any intelligence information. If the Daschle Gang doesn't agree with the action, they will simply expose it, like Leahy did before.

[Askel5]

Only a truly totalitarian state can pull off a successful "World Revolution by Proxy".

Thank God Bush won the election ... Gore could never have gotten away with such abuses!!

GO BUSH ... LET'S ROLL.

[kassie]

It's a shame congress can't keep their mouths shut.

[borntodiefree]

So any time an idiot in Congress screws up, the all perfect president (I don't care who it is) can increase his powers in violation of law!!!

Wrong answer, the congressmen can be removed from office by law.

If we're not a nation of laws, then we have no nation, and the president is just a feel good dictator. No president gets to decide which laws he wants to follow and which he wants to ignore, if he does then he violates his oath of office and needs to be impeached (again, I don't care who it is).

[toenail]

Our [admittedly dumbass] congresscritters aren't entitled to know what our military is doing? If Leahy or some other jerk leaks compromising material, PROSECUTE THEM. Bush is not an emperor.

[LarryLied]

Our intelligence has been compromised for years by Democrats. Leahy got a couple people killed. Dellums swore to dismantle our intelligence agencies brick by brick. Barbara Lee (D-CA) handed over a report on Greneda to the Kremlin before the full congress read it. The Torrecelli amendment which mandated congress be informed of CI's gutted our ability to recruit agents. You want the enemies of America to win, just give Democrats sensitive information.

[dirtboy]

So any time an idiot in Congress screws up, the all perfect president (I don't care who it is) can increase his powers in violation of law!!!

So even if it means our servicement will die, intelligence sources will be compromised or we will be more prone to terrorist attack, the President should just follow a law passed by an idiotic anti-national-security Congress and signed by a treasonous president?

[wardaddy]

Bush is not an emperor????

Shame....I think he'd make a fine benevolent dictator....which is about the only thing which will ever roll back the liberal revolution of the past 60 odd years.

Sorry...just daydreaming.

[vin-one]

Howie, your reply number 8, I was being sarcastic,

[OWK]

the President should just follow a law....

Yes, the President should follow the law.

He is not King.

[OWK]

Shame....I think he'd make a fine benevolent dictator....

If you want a dictator, move to Iraq.

We have a Constitution here.