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Obama threatens to veto law decreasing White House secrecy
John Byrne
Raw Story
Friday, July 10, 2009
President Barack Obama’s first veto threat was aimed at “taking out” Boeing’s F-22 fighter jet, which critics have long maintained is a legacy fighter craft left over from the Soviet era that has no practical use today.
His second? Telling Congress he’ll veto the House Intelligence authorization bill if they include a provision expanding secret congressional briefings to include the full intelligence committees from the current “Gang of 8″ congressmembers now.
Under current law, the President’s surrogates must brief the House and Senate leaders of both parties and the chambers’ respective intelligence committees (the “Gang of 8″) when covert government activity takes place.
After a recent brouhaha in which Democratic congressmembers were briefed about President Bush’s detainee interrogation program but were unable to express their concern or speak with others about it, Democratic leaders indicated they’ve move to change the law. A new proposal would require briefings of the full intelligence committees, though the Gang of 8 would still be allowed to limit clandestine briefings to their eyes only.
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Despite the outrage from his party over what many viewed as the Bush Administration’s abuse of secrecy laws, President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget issued a little-noticed Statement of Administration policy Wednesday saying the current Gang of 8 arrangement has “for decades has balanced congressional oversight responsibilities with the President’s responsibility to protect sensitive national security information.”
The statement says that expanding the briefings would put national security at risk.
Provisions in the measure to require the White House to disclose internal legal advice and deliberations — which might have given Congress access to internal Bush Administration documents specifically outlining torture practices — are also raising Obama’s hackles.
Measures that “require the disclosure of internal Executive branch legal advice and deliberations” may also spark a presidential veto, the statement says.
The Statement of Administration policy follows.
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
H.R. 2701 – Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
The Administration supports House passage of an Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2010 that would support the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Community’s mission to conduct intelligence activities to protect the Nation. The Administration appreciates the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s inclusion in H.R. 2701 of many provisions submitted by the Administration.
Although the Administration is pleased with the many favorable provisions in the bill, the Administration has serious concerns with a number of provisions that would impede the smooth and efficient functioning of the IC and that would raise a number of policy, management, legal, and constitutional concerns. The Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to address these concerns, some of which are outlined below, in order to enhance the effectiveness and capabilities of the IC on behalf of the Nation.
While the Administration appreciates the funding authorized for critical intelligence programs as described in the classified schedule, it has serious concerns with certain funding reductions and other matters in the classified schedule that will be addressed separately by the Administration.
Report on Covert Actions (Section 321). The Administration strongly objects to section 321, which would replace the current “Gang of 8″ notification procedures on covert activities. There is a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters, and the Administration has emphasized the importance of providing timely and complete congressional notification, and using “Gang of 8″ limitations only to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting the vital interests of the United States. Unfortunately, section 321 undermines this fundamental compact between the Congress and the President as embodied in Title V of the National Security Act regarding the reporting of sensitive intelligence matters – an arrangement that for decades has balanced congressional oversight responsibilities with the President’s responsibility to protect sensitive national security information. Section 321 would run afoul of tradition by restricting an important established means by which the President protects the most sensitive intelligence activities that are carried out in the Nation’s vital national security interests. In addition, the section raises serious constitutional concerns by amending sections 501-503 of the National Security Act of 1947 in ways that would raise significant executive privilege concerns by purporting to require the disclosure of internal Executive branch legal advice and deliberations. Administrations of both political parties have long recognized the importance of protecting the confidentiality of the Executive Branch’s legal advice and deliberations. If the final bill presented to the President contains this provision, the President’s senior advisers would recommend a veto.
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July 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Obama = Bush
buckwheats Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Obama Change = Chump Change
sunny02 Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Obama Change = NWO Change
The Original Truthtube
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July 11th, 2009 at 9:18 am
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Prophet Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Greetings Cooter,
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Art Baker Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Start calling Obama Bush the Third.
weebits Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
How can one even claim to have Transparency, in a House Of Mirrors
???
Madman Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Obama, Bush the Turd?
Weebits, transparency here, just means, we can easily see through the lies.
Doesn’t mean anyone will do anything about it.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
What makes congressional leaders special? They doon’t tell us what’s going on, why should they tell congress anything more than the bullshit they feed us on a constant basis…
kebcreation Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Congress ought to grow a backbone and Impeach the SOB’s. Obama and crew are total treasonists and must be dealt with once and for all by the provision set forth of treason in the first degree. If not America will be swallowed up by their world government and it will be too late.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
the jackass can over ride a veto then what civial war marshall law?
Madman Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Yup, Martial Law, not Marshall Law, which is someone’s name probably…
Civil war it’s on the list.
Second American Revolution… starting to sound better, and better, each and every day that passes, yet the Militia’s, sit on their asses.
Hey, that Rhymed!
July 10th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I think it is time we tell the white house that THEY WORK FOR US, not the other way around. Revolution is coming my friends. I welcome it with open arms. I am soo tired of idiots running the show that are so out of touch with reality. Time to take back our country boys and girls.
July 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
So far, President Obama has not produced verifiable, unambiguous evidence that he meets the criteria of a natural born citizen. We contend Obama is actually the member of a foreign-based crime gang that has used fraudulent means to get their member Barack Obama in office so they can use him as an instrument to take control of the economic, political and military structures of the USA.
The plan is to give him the powers of a dictator under the pretext of implementing martial law to deal with a pandemic or a false flag nuclear attack or the consequences of hyperinflation that the same group have themselves engineered by manipulating the financial markets and creating debt.
Once martial law is declared, Homeland Security will be used to terrorise the population of the USA taking on a role similar to the Gestapo in Nazi Germany to enforce mass vaccinations, imprisonment in FEMA camps and quarantines in towns and cities. A wave of arrests is planned to arrest and kill all political opponents.
Further, a bill calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, which is gathering steam in Congress, could reveal the extent of the financial crimes committed by the Federal Reserve Chairman and his international backers, a further reason for the crime elite to seek an excuse to declare martial law to destroy opponents and evidence of their crimes.
July 10th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
It’s like the moment in Animal Farm where the pigs start walking on two legs…
2legsbaaaaaaad Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
VETO VOTE TOE VET VOE ET OE TO
Madman Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Yep, the pigs became politicians.
Some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.tiepvoud.nl/archief/pigs_walking.jpg
July 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Alex isn’t giving you the whole truth. Only a part of it which deals in the NOW. It’s a small part of a HUGE picture of good vs evil. We are changing…our DNA is changing…These recent solar events were told to us in advance in Crop Circles by friends from above. Incredible! Now they have more messages. They are that the Illuminati is falling apart, there will be First Contact with ETs very soon(months away) and announced by governments. That the world will soon change by 2012. Be a part of the process and wake up fully…..
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2legsbaaaaaaad Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Yay the antichrist will be here soon.
AbuBakerSmith Reply:
July 12th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Apollo is the AntiChrist
Jerusalem Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
”ET” ? Nothing but a farce! Just like the ” Lizard People”.
July 10th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Where are all of the butt stupid liberals on this? You know, Nancy Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Schumer–the crowd that kept pounding on the Bush Administrations secrecy and rightly so. Obama has a free hand, is that how it works you hypocrits.
kebcreation Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
They are all laughing all the way to the world bank.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Wall street
Military industrial complex
Multi-national corporations
Health insurance pharma complex
Uncle Tom Neocon Obama
July 10th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
They should start another gang of 8 to watch over the internal security within our own Govt.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
HOW in the hell can abunch of ignorant, yellow-dog democrats have ANY kind of “intelligence committee” ????? NOT A REPUBLICAN EITHER !!!!!!!
July 10th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
The truth is even worse!
http://www.pentwhistle.com/
July 10th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Is Alex Jones’ wife Jewish?
AbuBakerSmith Reply:
July 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
who cares?
July 11th, 2009 at 1:14 am
uh… where’s the birth certificate?… uh… that’s a secret… sorry
Madman Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Eh, things keep going this way… no one is gonna worry about a Birth Certificate.
July 12th, 2009 at 12:07 am
So much for transparency.
July 12th, 2009 at 6:43 am
shots were fired over very little back in 1776
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July 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
the whole thing is designed to try to save Nasty Nancy Pelosi’s position as speaker. After all protectng their personal interests are way more important than and country.