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Congressional Negotiators Reach Agreement on Intelligence Bill
Hannity ^ | 12/6/2004 | n/a

Posted on 12/06/2004 12:58:46 PM PST by Pyro7480

Sean Hannity just announced this breaking news. We'll see if it addresses the immigration issue.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; breaking; bushwantsittogoaway; congress; duncanhunter; immigration; intelligence; intelligencereform; jimsensenbrenner
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To: Pyro7480
Last American Czar didn't stop the drugs.

Question:
With 15 different intelligence agencies, why could none of them stop the 9-11 plot?

Answer:
Oh yeah! They needed an Intelligence Czar.

Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Intelligence Organizations: –each collects and processes intelligence relevant to their particular Service needs.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - provides accurate, comprehensive, and timely foreign intelligence on national security topics to national policy and decision makers.

Coast Guard Intelligence – deals with information related to US maritime borders and Homeland Security.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) - provides timely and objective military intelligence to warfighters, policymakers, and force planners.

Department of Energy – performs analyses of foreign nuclear weapons, nuclear non-proliferation, and energy security-related intelligence issues in support of US national security policies, programs, and objectives.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - prevents terrorist attacks within the United States, reduces America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimizes the damage and recovers from attacks that do occur.

Department of State – deals with information affecting US foreign policy.

Department of Treasury – collects and processes information that may affect US fiscal and monetary policy.

Federal Bureau of Investigation – deals with counterespionage and data about international criminal cases.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) – provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security.

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - coordinates collection and analysis of information from airplane and satellite reconnaissance by the military services and the CIA.

National Security Agency (NSA) - collects and processes foreign signals intelligence information for our Nation's leaders and warfighters, and protects critical US information security systems from compromise.

All the responsibilities of the CIA, DIA, NSA, NRO, and NGA are concerned with intelligence. Therefore each of these organizations in its entirety is considered to be a member of the Intelligence Community.

41 posted on 12/06/2004 1:56:43 PM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: StoneColdGOP
Gee, I feel safe now. Don't you?

I'm watching the press conference live now. There's Hunter and Warner...Sensenbrenner is NOT there. Good on him.

42 posted on 12/06/2004 1:56:48 PM PST by truthkeeper (Yeah, I have a 1998 signup date. So?)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
I am confused as to why immigrantion is a factor in the bill other than intelligence gathering.

The 9/11 commission declared the need for stricter rules about identification documents.

Why was it important to President Bush to exclude language about drivers licenses that would have inconvenienced terrorists and illegal aliens? Several of the hijackers boarded planes with drivers licenses obtained through loopholes left open for illegal aliens.

43 posted on 12/06/2004 1:57:04 PM PST by Fatalis
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To: TheRatHunter
All in all, though, right now we need a President who isn't a pansy when it comes to foreign policy, and Bush is it.

Well said TRH!

All who focus on one agenda alone miss what has been accomplished since Dubya has taken office (and with much opposition I might add)

The disgruntled have spent way too much time looking at the trees and not seeing the forest.

44 posted on 12/06/2004 1:59:06 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: StoneColdGOP

"Hope you people who voted for Bush are happy..."


Who did you vote for?


45 posted on 12/06/2004 2:00:23 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: TheRatHunter

"If Bush got his way, there won't be a word about immigration in this legislation.

Hope you people who voted for Bush are happy..."

Kerry would have been no better, ccertainly even worse.
TER-EEZ-ZAH supports "World without Borders".

Save your money and time and support Tancredo in 2008 - if we still have a country left.

Bush's position on illegal immigration is idiotic and a total disgrace - but then the apple seldom falls far from the tree and George Senior was a super-moron on foreign policy issues. So I guess Bush II is a little better.


47 posted on 12/06/2004 2:03:38 PM PST by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: ohiocreek

"He is a budget-busting open borders moderate, the sooner the right realizes that the better."

Wow! You got that name calling thing down pretty well!


48 posted on 12/06/2004 2:06:11 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: Pyro7480
This is OK. Let this bill proceed, we'll just rattle it around a bit until we can fix things in the next congress. A congress which we have more power in anyway.

Be patient my children, the next congress is ours and the executive branch. We have four more years to fix many things and we will, because we the People are going to press them like there is no tomorrow.

49 posted on 12/06/2004 2:06:25 PM PST by timydnuc (I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
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To: EGPWS

In the press conference you have 3 men who have sons and or nephews in Iraq and have fought in Iraq. I would hope that knowing that, we could afford them some respect regarding doing the right thing for their own family. I don't think that Cheney, Myers, Saxon and Hunter and Joe Wilson would purposely cave under those circumstances.

I don't think Bush actually wrote the bill, so we will never know if he was or wasn't on board with the drivers licenses, that is being fought out in the congress.

Bush needs to get this bill signed so that if some attack happens, he won't be seen as the one to stop a bill that all the dems believe is the be all and end all of protection for USA. I don't think Bush believes that, remember he has been making changes all along, and we haven't been attacked, but just in case.

Also, he doesn't want this bill hanging over his and congress' head in Jan. when the new session starts because he has a lot of new items on his agenda. He is probably capitulating in hopes of being able to call in some chips when he needs a vote.


50 posted on 12/06/2004 2:07:59 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: Pyro7480

Anyone have a link to the actual law? I'd like to read it. Which is something most of the bozos in Congress have not done.


51 posted on 12/06/2004 2:09:41 PM PST by isthisnickcool (John Kerry in 2008!)
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To: isthisnickcool

Maybe some of the posters that seem ready to lynch Bush should read the bill first.

Nothing like being defeatist and getting hyperbolic.

We FReepers are made of sterner stuff, and we will be around in January to remind all about them saying the immigration provision will be attended to next session.

Any one that doesn't want to work toward change, accepting that Bush is not perfect but by far, better than Kerry, might find a website that Pat Buchanan is the head off.


53 posted on 12/06/2004 2:13:11 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: isthisnickcool

The "finalized" version of the bill probably hasn't been posted yet.


54 posted on 12/06/2004 2:15:41 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: Txsleuth

I gotta agree with Tex (Can I call you Tex?) on this one. The pure conservative part of me isn't thrilled with Bush, but I'm also deliriously pleased Kerry is still a senator. Despite his flaws, let's work with Bush and get through what we can. We'll do our best to pressure him and Congress on immigration, and whatever we can't do now, is still on the table for the next nomination


55 posted on 12/06/2004 2:17:02 PM PST by TheRatHunter
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To: ohiocreek

"...but the longer we delude ourselves with the notion that Bush is a conservative, the worse things will get."

The worse they'll get in regard to what? Immigration? Is that your only issue?
The country is at war.
I think we might want to trust his leadership right now.
But this is America and it's everybody's right to complain.


56 posted on 12/06/2004 2:18:18 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: dalereed

"If they don't stop the illegal immigration and force the illeglas to go back where they came from the terrorists can blow up this country as far as i'm concerned, it will be a 3rd world cesspool in short order."

Unfortunately your words are so true. The Republican Party and King George have sold out the American populace.


57 posted on 12/06/2004 2:19:35 PM PST by politicalwit (Import poverty...hire an illegal today)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Hope you people who voted for Bush are happy...

Damn right I am. This isn't football ya know?


58 posted on 12/06/2004 2:20:25 PM PST by loboinok (GUN CONTROL IS HITTING WHAT YOU AIM AT.)
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To: TheRatHunter

Thanks -- and yes you may call me Tex, I think all of us are intelligent enough to know that a certain amount of politics is involved in anything that happen on Capital Hill.

But, this isn't a perfect world, and I think that in the future because of sites like this, we can keep track of what is going on, and maybe get rid of the more "political" players in Washington.

It takes time, but I think we can have fun doing it.

I have to admit I am a Bush fan, not an illegal immigrant fan, but I haven't given up on trying to get congress to make the necessary changes.


60 posted on 12/06/2004 2:23:44 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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