NYT: The Unfinished Reforms of 9/11

[maddezmom]

Published: April 19, 2008
When the independent 9/11 commission warned that the nation’s intelligence defenses were a shambles, Congress embraced nearly every call for reform. Guess which one it didn’t? It has conveniently overlooked the commission’s call to consolidate Congress’s multiple intelligence oversight committees and subcommittees — which ends up leaving no one with real oversight power.

Now the idea has been at least partially revived. In a letter last month to the Senate leadership, 14 of the 15 members of the Intelligence Committee — which oversees intelligence operations — recommended creating a new intelligence subcommittee to oversee appropriations. The subcommittee would include members who sit on both the full intelligence and appropriations panels.

Over on the Senate Appropriations Committee — the jedi masters of the budget universe — top members were not in a compromising mood and quickly volleyed in their own letter insisting that there is no such need. For them to surrender any of their authority, the appropriators declared, would hamper oversight.

We stand with the 9/11 commission that the national interest requires the two houses’ intelligence committees to fully assume appropriation authority. Considering the thicket of egos, the proposed compromise is a start. The overlap would begin to address the situation in which the appropriations committees handle intelligence as only one of many specialties.

more:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/opinion/19sat3.html?ref=opinion

[sam sarrha]

1. it happened just like they wanted, "Ben-lade determined to attack within WEEKS OR DAYS" she left off

the incriminating part.. there were about a dozen warnings with "WITHIN WEEKS OR DAYS" the month before.. a cluster of 5 or 6 the week before, 52 warnings from allies national security agencies in the previous months that year.

here is your new mantra.. theyletithappen...theyletithappen...theyletithappen

Shortly before, NeoCon Czar Pearl said what we need to get our program going "is another Pearl Harbor"

read Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine:the rise of disaster capitalism'. not really capitalism..its Fasco-Corporatism. Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, 240,000 tortured to death.... come'n soon RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY !!!

her book is the book of the century, not a political rag propaganda piece like the ReThuglicians write, it is an in depth research paper about the ReThug Agenda, installing Milton Friedman's Machiavellian economic theory's not only in the United States but Globally.. Friedman was a psychopath who developed his economic theory's from the work of Dr Evan Cameron who developed Electro shock therapy and the Frontal lobotamy..in an attempt to erase the minds of his patients and rebuild a healthy mind in it's place.. this is plain psychotic Frankenstein madness. this is the platform of the ReThuglican Party..

the book is 558 pages with 92 pages of footnotes and index.. this is a REAL book, it is our last warning..