"CIA's History of Lying to Congress" by Lisa Pease (7-10-09 Consortium News)

[bobthedrummer]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/071009a.html

Below is a link to a highly relevant archived thread that I started March 11, 2008-the posts and links are representative of what keeps some of US here at DU

"The Pike Committee"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2990965

What areas/individuals would you want investigated in regards to the crimes committed behind the shield of "national security"?

[crickets]

1. Excellent links. Thank you.

Bookmarking for later.

[slipslidingaway]

2. rec #3 thanks n/t

[ControlledDemolition]

3. K&R. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

4. I would certainly be interested in folks like J. Cofer Black, Alvin Krongard, Porter Goss, George

Tenet, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Steve Cambone, General Tommy Franks, General Richard Myers, General Richardo Sanchez, Alberto Gonzales, Alice Fisher, Geoff O'Connell and hundreds more

[H2O Man]

5. Lisa Pease

is outstanding.

I'd like investigations that lift the curtains. There was a good start in the 1970s, but they were derailed and left incomplete. And that's why the infection on our democracy was able to mutate and spread.

[bobthedrummer]

6. So are you, my friend. Here's but one example of what mutated over time due to lack of treatment.

The Huston Plan (started by H2O Man 7-26-07)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1442997

[H2O Man]

7. It never really disappeared.

Dean made that clear during his testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee. Nixon okayed it, then hedged, but it did become operational. And it is important for people to undertand, because it involves the coordination between all levels of intelligence/police agencies.

[ControlledDemolition]

9. The rot set in pretty early. 'Operation Paperclip' accelerated the negative spiral into corporate

fascism.

[bobthedrummer]

8. "Bush Spying Releied on Faulty Theories" by Jason Leopold (7-12-09 Consortium News)

"George W. Bush justified his warrantless wiretapping by relying on Justice Department attorney John Yoo's theories of unlimited wartime powers, and started the spying operation even before Yoo issued a formal opinion, a government investigation discovered."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/071209b.html

One obvious conclusion is that John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness networks have continued far beyond historical politicized domestic programs like Hoover era COINTELPRO'S and the Helms era CIA's Operation CHAOS in "listing" political enemies.

I assume the "lists" of persons of interest under these criminal "war on terrorism" policies have included people that were disappeared, tortured and murdered-including friends, associates, extended family members--like William Colby's PHOENIX program during the Vietnam War and the Kissinger, Negroponte, Armitage extrajudicial units in Latin America and Africa during the Cold War.

A question that has never been answered is what actions were undertaken on those that were on the various politicized lists of "enemies" that have been around for at least 60 years here in The United States of America? And where is the accountability???