Forces At Work To Build A U.S. Police State

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> FORCES AT WORK TO BUILD A U.S. POLICE STATE

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> Patrick Briley

> September 7, 2004

> http://www.NewsWithViews.com

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> Porter Goss served as chairman of the House

> Intelligence Committee during hearings on Chinese

> espionage (Chinagate) and on the 9-11 attacks. Prior

> to that Goss worked ten years for the CIA as a

> clandestine services officer. President GW Bush has

> nominated Goss to be the next director of the CIA.

> One has to wonder why Bush nominated Goss for CIA

> when earlier this year Goss himself said he was not

> qualified to work at CIA:

> " I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not

> qualified. I don't have the language skills. I don't

> have the cultural background probably. And I

> certainly don't have the technical skills¡­ Uh, so,

> the things that you need to have, I don't have. "

> For some reason Goss chose to make all these remarks

> in a taped interview March 3, 2004 with the producer

> of the movie " Farenheit 9/11 " as reported by Reuters

> " Filmmaker Moore Quotes Goss on Lack of CIA

> Credentials " on August 11, 2004 "

> Goss even sponsored legislation that would have made

> deep cuts in intelligence personnel by 20 percent in

> the late 1990s. See " Goss Backed '95 Bill To Slash

> Intelligence " .

> The recent report by the commission probing the

> Sept. 11, 2001 attacks found US human intelligence

> profoundly lacking as a result of these cuts and the

> commission called for more spending on human

> intelligence. Although the CIA needs reform, why

> would Bush want to nominate Goss for CIA when Bush

> knows it was Goss's poor judgment on cutting back on

> human intelligence that helped cripple the US from

> being able to head off 9-11?

> Yet, in June 2004 Goss introduced legislation to

> give GW Bush new authority to direct CIA agents to

> conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United

> States - including arresting American citizens.

> Newsweek reported this recently on August 12, 2004

> in an article, " Goss's Wish List. "

> In effect, the Goss bill would enable the president

> to issue secret findings allowing the CIA and the

> CIA Director (who Mr. Goss wants to now become!) to

> conduct covert operations inside the United States

> (that have heretofore been taboo)-without ANY

> notification to Congress.

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> However, if Goss gets his way, Goss will become the

> CIA director having the special powers given to him

> as CIA director by GW Bush created by the very law

> that Goss wrote to conduct law enforcement

> operations, spying and arrests in the US with CIA

> resources and methods and techniques. Is that not a

> conflict of interest that smacks of police state

> politics?

> In late Sept 2001 former President HW Bush publicly

> called for new laws to permit the CIA to operate

> inside the US and do criminal acts in the name of

> national security in order to get on the inside of

> terror cells and stop terrorism. It looks as if HW

> and GW Bush found a willing participant in Goss to

> create the very laws that HW Bush publicly demanded.

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> If Bush becomes elected President for a second term

> he will be a " lame duck " President, no longer

> accountable to the American electorate and no longer

> accountable for the permission he would give Goss,

> in secret, without safeguards, to conduct CIA

> domestic operations against US. The opportunity and

> conditions for abuse of lawful US citizens by Bush

> and Goss will be overwhelming if Goss is CIA

> director under a second term of GW Bush with the new

> laws and powers for CIA domestic operations sought

> by the Goss introduced legislation.

> Goss seems to be the front man for the Bush

> onslaught on civil rights in the name of fighting

> terrorism as Goss has also sponsored the notorious

> Patriot II Act known as HR3179, which authorizes the

> secret arrest of US citizens. Goss sponsored

> legislation for Patriot Act II, new CIA powers and

> possibly as the next CIA director are all

> ingredients for a police state.

> Even if Goss's legislative attempts fail and Goss is

> not confirmed, the very fact that Goss and Bush

> would attempt this does not speak well for their

> lack of respect for the American citizen or the Bill

> of Rights.

> Goss will still be around to do more questionable

> deeds in Congress to politically block

> accountability for counter terrorism failures and

> corrupt Bush policies with China and Pakistan.

> As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,

> Goss helped GW Bush cover-up facts behind 9-11 that

> were incriminating to GW Bush, but that Goss helped

> deliberately keep out of the 9-11 Congressional

> Report, a report produced after holding a year of

> hearings over which Goss presided.

> Remember the 28 missing pages that were removed from

> the 9-11 Congressional Report? Goss and his staff

> did that for GW Bush because Bush did not want

> details to come out about Bush foreknowledge of

> Saudi and mastermind Khalid Mohammed (who once

> worked for the CIA and Iraq besides Al Qaeda and Bin

> Laden) attack planning and involvement in the 9-11

> attacks and forewarnings Bush received from other

> governments.

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