Labels: Bill Moyers, CIA, Iran, National Security Act, PBS, Secret Government
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posted by profmarcus at
12/01/2007
The Bush administration has announced it is relaxing passport rules for U.S. travelers in the Western Hemisphere for the next three months.
The administration said Friday it will suspend a requirement that all U.S. citizens must have a valid passport if traveling by air to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda. But travelers will still have to show proof of a passport application.
The proposal is a response to the increasing backlog of U.S. passport applications since January, when rules requiring passports for travel to those nations first took effect.
The mandate, known as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, prompted a surge of passport applications at the State Department, causing a backlog and delays that led angry applicants to complain to their congressional representatives.
The initiative will also impose the same rules on land and sea travelers beginning January 1, 2008.
Labels: Bush Administration, domestic spying, National Security Act, Passport
Submit To Propellerposted by jburke6000 at
6/09/2007
U.S. intelligence recently undertook a "significant" covert action without notifying Congress, as required by law, the House Intelligence Committee disclosed in a new report on the 2008 intelligence authorization bill.
"The Committee was dismayed at a recent incident wherein the Intelligence Community failed to inform the Congress of a significant covert action activity. This failure to notify Congress constitutes a violation of the National Security Act of 1947."
"Despite agency explanations that the failure was inadvertent, the Committee is deeply troubled over the fact that such an oversight could occur, whether intentionally or inadvertently."
"The Committee firmly believes that scrupulous transparency between the Intelligence Community and this Committee is an absolute necessity on matters related to covert action."
In response to this lapse, the Committee adopted a provision in its authorization bill that would require the CIA Inspector General to audit each covert action program at least once every three years.
Labels: CIA, CIA Inspector General, Congress, House Intelligence Committee, National Security Act, U.S. Intelligence
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
5/09/2007
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