Old Hands Picked for CIA Oversight

Old Hands Picked for CIA Oversight
By Melvin A. Goodman
September 11, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/091109a.html



The late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan created the PIDB in the 1990s to reduce the “torment of secrecy,” which denied important information on national security to the American people. The EAB was designed to deal with the complexities of managing the CIA and to improve the access of intelligence information to the Congress and the American people.

Hayden and Rudman have a Cold War preoccupation with secrecy and have never been known for improving access. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, is responsible for the Hayden appointment; CIA Director Leon Panetta appointed Rudman, a New Hampshire Republican.

As Steven Aftergood, editor of Secrecy News, noted, Hayden is “not well known as a classification critic or a proponent of declassification.” As director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Hayden instituted the warrantless eavesdropping program that violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution that prohibits unlawful seizures and searches.

In defending warrantless eavesdropping .............

"Change in Washington will not come from the beltway crowd. Change in Washington will come from OUTSIDE of Washington. And that's change you can believe in!" Remember that?

This administration is the very epitome of "inside-the-beltway."

That's as big a disconnect as anything with the president. It's sad because I worked damn hard for this man, gave a boat load of money and this is NOT what I was expecting. "Disappointed," doesn't come close to my feelings about the above.

Obama said what people wanted to hear, but does not hear what the People are saying.

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