October 1, 2002

During the course of our interviews, intelligence and non-intelligence personnel alike complain that a range of political, cultural, jurisdictional, legal, and bureaucratic issues are ever-present hurdles to information sharing. Prior to the passage of the USA Patriot Act, many suggested that law enforcement information was not adequately shared with the Intelligence Community. The reverse was also apparently true despite amendments to the National Security Act in the 1990s designed to make clear that foreign intelligence could be collected for, and shared with, U.S. law enforcement agencies.

SBD

Funny thing is that due process was abandoned in every war. Amazing that our republic still stands.

Simply put, I’d rather kill or capture terrorists than worry about whether wiretap warrants are based on “pure” information.

And don’t reply that we’re headed for a slippery slope if we don’t follow process. We’ve been doing warrantless surveillance since the republic was born and we’re still going strong.

In The Suicidal Pursuit of Perfection I described a young woman whose political absolutism and demands that the world function the way she wanted it to rather than the way it actually did placed her in significant, real, danger. Once

THAT’S DUE PROCESS, A.J. ABANDON DUE PROCESS, AND THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON!

I don’t particularly care if this bozo was “trying to do the right thing,” he’s supposed to be a Justice Department lawyer. That is, he represents Justice. That’s his “client.” An ex parte communication which undermines his “client’s” interests does not seem, to me, to be an ethical means to “doing the right thing.”

Doesn’t the Bar suspend a law license for that type of thing?

“Both judges had insisted that no information obtained this way be used to gain warrants from their court, according to government sources, and both had been assured by administration officials it would never happen.”

“…assured by administration officials…?” Is that, perhaps, among the reasons Ashcroft was not urged to remain as Attorney General? It seems as though he should’ve been cleaning house of Department lawyers who use back doors to challenge or change a President’s Executive Orders?

Not the Olympic Games mind you, but the political games associated with the Able Danger hearings. The public hearings have now been scheduled for February 15, 2006 at 2:30PM in the Rayburn building. Hopefully, it will shed more light on what the US w…

From the ACLU:
The American Civil Liberties Union expressed disappointment at the closed-door hearing held today by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the warrantless spying by the National Security Agency. Attorney General Alberto Gonzal…