Sneaky US Senate: Wants To Hire Criminals & Addicts To Defend Us

 

 

Ex- convicts and addicts may get DoD clearance

By Elana Schor and Roxana Tiron July 10, 2007

At the Pentagon’s request, Senate defense authorizers tucked deep within a defense bill a repeal of the department’s restriction on granting security clearances to ex-convicts, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.

The repeal provision now is creating discord between the Senate Armed Services and the Intelligence committees. In its markup of the 2008 defense authorization bill, the Intelligence panel voted to delete the Armed Services provision.

The law negatively affects individuals who have committed a qualifying crime but have determined trustworthy by “national adjudicative standards,” according a Pentagon spokesman. Because the statute only applies to the Pentagon, it hinders clearance reciprocity with other federal agencies, he added.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, however, warned of the dangers of a blanket repeal of the law, which could lead to unintended compromises or mishandling of classified information.

S. 1547: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

Sec. 1064. Repeal of standards for disqualification from issuance of security clearances by the Department of Defense.

Boy, the Senate is trying to slip another one past us! What we need are more convicts, drug addicts, and mentally unstable DOD employees. Maybe we’ve elected so many criminals already, that they feel the whole country needs to be protected BY criminals instead of FROM criminals!

Hey! Homeland Security is looking for a ‘few good employees’, why not staff them with criminals, too? Why not screw up our defense system worse than it already is? Where is Main Scream Media on this detail?

Gonzales, The Never Ending Saga Of Lies

At what point does “I have full confidence in….” becomes “it’s time for you to go”.  We all know that as long as Bush is President, Gonzales will always have his full confidence. This just enhances and solidifies the administrations complete disregard for truth, honor and the American people.

• WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced a new firestorm on Tuesday sparked by a report he may have misled lawmakers in 2005 about civil liberty violations by the FBI.

It’s sad, but it doesn’t even shock me anymore that Gonzales or anyone connected to Bush would mislead. What does shock me is the consistency and continuation of the lies. The blanket of amnesia for events that covers this administration, will definitely go down in the Guinness Book of World Records.

• But President George W. Bush brushed off the flap about his longtime friend, who earlier served as White House counsel.

• “The president has said repeatedly that he has great faith in the attorney general, and that has not changed,” said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel.

“Bush brushed off the flap”, I find that very irritating because to me, the flap Bush is brushing of are our civil rights, our constitution, our America.

• The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Gonzales assured Congress in 2005 that the FBI had not abused powers granted under the anti-terror USA Patriot Act despite having received reports of potential violations.

• Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for Gonzales, told reporters he did not know whether the attorney general had read the reports sent to the president’s Intelligence Oversight Board.

If I am given a report and I had not read it, how would I know to give assurances to anyone that there are no violations? Frankly, that dog doesn’t hunt.

Here we sit shaking our heads at just another lie compounded on the mountain of Bush administration lies. January 2009, can not come fast enough to rid this country of the scum that works in the White House and everyone associated and beholden to them.