The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
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The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
Good move or bad move?
Seems like an interesting move to make when claims that there is a "shadow government" in the CIA.
Good move or bad move?
Seems like an interesting move to make when claims that there is a "shadow government" in the CIA.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
no oversight is always bad if you want a free country.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
"without oversight" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overstates the change.
Under Bush, the CIA was allowed to independently authorize drone strikes on militants abroad. Obama narrowed that to a pre-approved hit-list -- the CIA could only make strikes on White House approved targets. Trump has rolled back White House involvement and put it back on the CIA to make their own judgment calls within set parameters.
The CIA is always subject to White House oversight, and the White House and the CIA always remain subject to Congressional and judicial oversight the same way they were before the change.
In short, Trump has just stopped micro-managing the CIA like Obama was doing.
Under Bush, the CIA was allowed to independently authorize drone strikes on militants abroad. Obama narrowed that to a pre-approved hit-list -- the CIA could only make strikes on White House approved targets. Trump has rolled back White House involvement and put it back on the CIA to make their own judgment calls within set parameters.
The CIA is always subject to White House oversight, and the White House and the CIA always remain subject to Congressional and judicial oversight the same way they were before the change.
In short, Trump has just stopped micro-managing the CIA like Obama was doing.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
I don't think so. The congress doesn't even know what questions to ask and the FISA courts never turn down CIA requests. When someone in Congress does ask a probing question, they get lied to about it, the guy caught lying gets a medal, promoted, works on a lobbyist for a few years, and then elected to congress a few years later. There's your oversight.snoscythe wrote:"without oversight" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overstates the change.
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The CIA is always subject to White House oversight, and the White House and the CIA always remain subject to Congressional and judicial oversight the same way they were before the change.
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I get you point, and it is valid, but I would argue that it would be more subject to scrutiny as the Obama administration was able to foil attempts at oversight by asserted executive privilege, which will no longer be the case as Trump reverts to the Bush-era program.jvquarterback wrote:I don't think so. The congress doesn't even know what questions to ask and the FISA courts never turn down CIA requests. When someone in Congress does ask a probing question, they get lied to about it, the guy caught lying gets a medal, promoted, works on a lobbyist for a few years, and then elected to congress a few years later. There's your oversight.snoscythe wrote:"without oversight" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overstates the change.
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The CIA is always subject to White House oversight, and the White House and the CIA always remain subject to Congressional and judicial oversight the same way they were before the change.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
What is the CIA's prime mission--gather and analyze intelligence or kill bad people? Seems simpler to me to let DOD do the killing, as authorized by DOD rules etc. and the CIA do the gathering and analyzing. Every time the CIA gets involved in killing it has been a fiasco, whether Bay of Pigs, Chile, Central America.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
If you want to know why nothing has changed, just ask yourself what happened to the last sitting president who wanted to take away the CIA's operational role.
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Did Kennedy want to do that as a result of the Bay of Pigs? I have not heard this before.jvquarterback wrote:If you want to know why nothing has changed, just ask yourself what happened to the last sitting president who wanted to take away the CIA's operational role.
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Re: The CIA now authorized to make drone strikes without oversight
You haven't heard the CIA wanted to (and did) take Kennedy out conspiracy theory?Cougarfan87 wrote:Did Kennedy want to do that as a result of the Bay of Pigs? I have not heard this before.jvquarterback wrote:If you want to know why nothing has changed, just ask yourself what happened to the last sitting president who wanted to take away the CIA's operational role.
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BlueK wrote:You haven't heard the CIA wanted to (and did) take Kennedy out conspiracy theory?Cougarfan87 wrote:Did Kennedy want to do that as a result of the Bay of Pigs? I have not heard this before.jvquarterback wrote:If you want to know why nothing has changed, just ask yourself what happened to the last sitting president who wanted to take away the CIA's operational role.