CIA Chief Says Wiretap Disclosure Damaging (Goss)

[sabra]

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/02/ap2495934.html

Update 14: CIA Chief Says Wiretap Disclosure Damaging


CIA Director Porter Goss said Thursday that the disclosure of President Bush's eavesdropping-without-warrants program and other once-secret projects had undermined U.S. intelligence-gathering abilities.

"The damage has been very severe to our capabilities to carry out our mission," Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee. He said a federal grand jury should be empaneled to determine "who is leaking this information."

His testimony came after National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, who directs all intelligence activities, strongly defended the program, calling it crucial for protecting the nation against its most menacing threat.

"This was not about domestic surveillance," Negroponte said.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. So the light of day hurts their eyes?

I thought they were all required to wear rose-colored glasses these days. Looks like the glare is overwhelming them.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. The bald effrontery of these criminal--as if Al Quaida isn't smart enough

to have instituted effective counter-measures against any form of electronic surveillance before these revelations came out. First of all, they employ a cell-based structure (which makes it hard to capture anyone other than a given cell's members). Second, they knew that FISA existed and would assume their electronic communications were being monitored under FISA.

[Demeter]

3. Yup. It's A Clear-Cut Confession for Impeachment!

Couldn't be more damaging (unless and until the country cottons on and enforces the Constitution).

[Triana]

4. Holy water damages vampires, yes it does...

...who's it gonna damage? Bu$h? He's a dictator and a criminal. I guess it damages HIM for 'the people' to know he's spying on them illegally, yes.

RAID to a cockroach...

[Itchinjim]

5. Yeah, to you scum it is.

[DBoon]

6. and we are supposed to believe this mas-murderer

of Hondurans on the basis of his word?

If anyone knows the nuts-and-bolts of setting up a police state, it is Negroponte

[Tight_rope]

7. Don't be such a cry baby Goss...We are all getting fucked by Bush!

[MissMillie]

8. While you're empanelling juries...

how 'bout one to determine whether or not the program breaks the law?

[aries_rules]

9. Not really.

Sure its not about domestic surveillance. Bush is setting up the next Rethuglican for the presidency by spying on the opposition.

[bluedog]

10. 1 of those guys said

something to the effect that bush and cheney were the ones who made the 8 members of congress briefing rule.....in response to Diane F's question......so bush and cheney made their OWN RULES on who would be briefed......

[ColonelTom]

11. I'm sure al Qaeda never thought their phones might be tapped

That's why they've been using code words in their communications since at least 1999. (See the 9/11 Commission Report, Ch. 5, p. 157.) :eyes:

[Jackpine Radical]

12. OF COURSE I shot the cop, yer Honor. I had to.

He was obstructing my escape from the bank.