From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 22:22:35 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote,
>
> Look at what is being said. "I served my country as a security
> intelligence reconnaissance expert for black agencies that don't
> officially exist."
>
> Now that says that congress didn't approve of the "black
> agency" nor
> did they authorize money to be spent on it. They do not know of its
> existance and cannot exercise their constitutional duty of oversight.
> So where do they find their authorization. The President
> or someone
> in the government has privately decided they need men of this
> type to to do
> jobs that an honest member of the FBI or other legitimate
> government employee wouldn't do because it is illegal.
> Where did the money to pay these "Off the books
> operatives" come from.
> It is either money that was discretionary or that was redirected
> from some
> other legitimate source. Possibly the President or whoever collected the
> money from private sources.
> In the end we have private operatives, being paid
> unauthorized money to perform services that are illegal.
Great rant! Maybe you now understand why I am complaining. Secret
operations outside of any external constitutional oversight are always
suspect.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>
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