Now the CIA decides what we should read?

[Buxtehude]

I thought this was a joke till I read this.

CIA Claims the Right
to Decide What is News

Archive Sues to Break FOIA
Fee Barrier for Journalists

For more information contact:
Meredith Fuchs/Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Patrick J. Carome, 202-663-6000

Documents

Complaint
National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency, filed 14 June 2006

Opinion
U.S. Court of Appeals in re: National Security Archive v. U.S. Department of Defense, decided 28 July 1989

Memorandum and Order
U.S. District Court in re: National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency, filed 30 January 1990




Washington D.C., 14 June 2006 - The National Security Archive today filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), challenging the Agency's recent practice of charging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) fees to journalists pursuing news. The FOIA says that "representatives of the news media" can be charged only copying fees since they help to carry out the mission of the law by disseminating government information; but the CIA last year began claiming authority to assess additional fees if the Agency decides any journalist's request is not newsworthy enough. In adopting this new practice, the CIA reversed its prior 15-year practice of presumptively waiving additional fees for news media representatives, including the National Security Archive.

"The CIA takes the position that it should decide what is 'news' instead of the reporters and editors who research and publish the stories," explained attorney Patrick J. Carome of the law firm Wilmer Hale, who is representing the Archive. "If the CIA succeeds in exercising broad discretion to charge additional fees to journalists, despite the plain language of the law, then too often we will find out only what the government wants us to know."

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20060614/index.htm

[elehhhhna]

1. "The CIA takes the position that it should decide what is 'news'..."

Fudge THAT. Time to dissolve this mutha. Past time.

[Webster Green]

2. Yep...

Let's fucking roll!

Fuck you, agent Mike!

[p12psicop]

3. Republicans no sense of humor?

We Libs have a lot of funny, satirical websites and TV shows, er and also books. Whitehouse.org, Dubyaspeak.com; The Daily Show, Colbert Report; Al Franken's Liars..., etc.

So why don't I ever see anything similar from the right wingnuts? They aren't funny? Are they incapable of satirizing anything?

It's hard to be funny when you're scared and nervous I suppose.

[WinkyDink]

9. Humor requires intelligence and learning. Hard to make funny

allusions, e.g., with a crappy knowledge base.
Moreover, humor requires the ability to see the foibles of all, and of course Republicans have no foibles, sins, faults, etc.---otherwise known as "humanity".

[serryjw]

4. Lots of suits from ACLU

quote.......
ACLU Sues Pentagon for Documents on Peace Groups (6/14/2006)


Tell the phone company to stop spying >>
FEATURES
> Faces Of Surveillance
> Illegal Pentagon Spying
> Illegal NSA Spying
> Illegal FBI / JTTF Spying

NEWS
> ACLU Requests Federal Government Records of Spying on Grassroots Groups In Montana (6/9/2006)
> Senate Judiciary Committee To Blindly Consider NSA Legislation (6/8/2006)
> ACLU Urges Court to End NSA Spying Program (6/6/2006)
> Review of AT&T-BellSouth Merger Must Look At NSA Spying (6/6/2006)

More News >>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: [e-mail]
PHILADELPHIA -- The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit to force the Department of Defense to turn over records it wrongly kept on peace groups and law-abiding Americans throughout the country.

"The U.S. military should not be in the business of maintaining secret databases about lawful First Amendment activities," said ACLU attorney Ben Wizner. "It is an abuse of power and an abuse of trust for the military to play any role in monitoring critics of administration policies."

end quote.......
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/25880prs20060614.html

[diamondsndust]

5. It'll be interesting to watch this play out... agencies are turning on

one another. Departments within agencies. The house of cards built by the republican culture of corruption is starting to fall within itself. We can look forward to more of this too as agencies align themselves in this power struggle. There are people who will not go along with this criminal cabal for any reason and they are fighting for us. We just don't get to hear about it often with the media clampdown in place. Uh-huh, I said it.... media clampdown. Let's start calling it what it really is. No more "M$M right wing shills", no more "paid for media"... call it what it is.... media clampdown.

Let's face it folks, the only difference between us and Cuba right now is the fact that boy george hasn't officially declared himself Dictator yet. I expect that's what it's going to take to wake up most of the sheeple to where they finally see it themselves. I also hope it never gets that far.

[Buxtehude]

6. Ever wonder if he'd have left

had Kerry won the election? It's crossed my mind a few times.

[diamondsndust]

7. I've wondered that a few times myself....

but I actually worry about the end of his term. They knew they could steal the elections, but how do they keep power in '08? They could never find another puppet as dumb and as willing as Gee! DUHbya ...

[robinlynne]

10. Kerry won the election.

[davekriss]

11. Kerry DID win the election

Like 2000, the will of the people was nullified in 2004 by various disenfranchising techniques, from black box vote manipulation, to intimidation at the polls, to undersupplying Democratic precincts (requiring in some cases as much as 7 hours to vote) and oversupplying Republican precincts (no wait to as long as 15 minutes), etc.

[lostnfound]

8. Good point -- it's a phrase worth repeating over and over

until it sinks into the national consciousness