Hey there, cool cats!
I’m glad to be back in the saddle again, after long months of absence. I’m sure you all missed my flowery words and ideological imbalances. Congrats, you’ve made it a few months without having to deal with ‘em, now let’s see if you’re ready to revisit some of the issues which have made headway [read: Destroyed U.S. and Canadian integrity worldwide] in the past eight years.
I came across the main Pro-Israeli lobby site today, AIPAC.org. Looking into the various Senate and House commitees and sub-commitees, I stumbled across the name John D. Rockerfeller IV. This piqued my interest until at the end of a ~20 minute click fest, I finally came to the site for the House Permanent Select Commitee on Intelligence.
I decided that I needed to do some good reading (with lots of censoring and closed meeting minutes, usually summing up the reasons for closing the meetings, “national” and “security” being tossed around liberally) and found that on page 45 of the “INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009″ there was a blurb in between closed meetings of a single congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) whom has brought up a motion to finally establish a set of rules and regulations which clandestine intelligence services must follow when performing what is commonly called an “Extraordinary Rendition” (we in the civvy world call it Kidnapping, and it’s an indictable offence which carries a minimum sentence of 5 years and a maximum of life if a firearm is used in the commission of the crime).
This type of motion, as it is known to me, is completely unheard of. Clearly intelligence services whom engage in risky, politically motivated, and cowardly acts such as this do not want to have to conform to rules that the unwashed masses wish to impress upon them. As I would have expected, the motion lost 11-10. 19 congressional representatives party to this meeting voted to keep the debate on this motion closed from the public record.
Ms. Schakowsky’s reasons for bringing forth this motion were “in order to prevent harsh treatment by third nations, and to encourage timely legal proceedings against the rendered party.” At least someone in this permanent assembly has their priorities straight; You can’t call yourself a liberal democracy when you’re kidnapping, torturing, and keeping incommunicado those whom speak out and act out against oppressive regimes whom you’ve propped up in the first place. You’ve gotta go and grab ‘em, then give them a fair trial, right?
The House Permanent Select Commitee on Intelligence is an oversight commitee which looks over the shoulder of the world’s largest Intelligence web. The United States Intelligence Community is comprised of the CIA, AF/A2, MI, DIA, MCIA, NGA, NRO, NSA, ONI, OICI, I&A, CGI, FBI, DEA, INR and the TFI, forming the largest and most elaborate intelligence and counterintelligence network on the planet. Many of these offices liase with groups like MI6, Mossad, FSB and our own CSIS.
In addition, rulings like this one, if they were ever to be voted into place, would have prevented the send off of Canadian Maher Arar to Syria for torture, it might even have stopped the practice of waterboarding dead in its’ tracks. Heck, it would’ve allowed him to be interrogated stateside with at least a modicum of civility.
Ah, a great word, what better way to dehumanize and demonize those whom are different from us, but to call ourselves civil. I don’t know about you, but a $5000 suit doesn’t make a civilized man from a douchebag.
Time to call the spade for what it is.
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