Current, Ex-Spy Officials Oppose Agency

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FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites), his predecessor Janet Reno (news - web sites) and CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet all recommended against a new homeland spy agency in testimony before the panel this week.



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In a rare alignment, the position of the five on the issue dovetails with that of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites). The ACLU maintains that such an agency could evolve into the ultimate Big Brother, with power to launch covert activities against U.S. citizens, dig into private lives and conduct surveillance without legal cause.


"Even during the most frigid days of the Cold War, we never saw the need to create a secret police force that would work outside the constraints of the Constitution," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said.

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"Certainly, we never rule out anything when it comes to taking steps to protect the American people," McClellan said.

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[scarletwoman]

1. This is something we REALLY need to keep our on!

We already know that the Commission has bushco insiders, this is their big chance to use the Commission to further their agenda of transforming the Republic into a permanent military/security state.

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[teryang]

2. This is such crap

Want to safeguard the American people? Get rid of the lot of criminals in our executive branch in the highest offices.

These are the people who have been conducting the obstruction that made 911 possible. This stovepipe excuse is a lot of hooey. Mueller and Tenet should be put in prison along with the Chimp, rice, Chechny and Powell.