Obama Threatens to Veto Intel Bill

Bill Would Dramatically Increase Number of Lawmakers Notified About Covert CIA Activities

(AP)  The White House is threatening to veto a bill that would require the president to dramatically increase the number of lawmakers who must be notified about covert CIA activities.

The annual intelligence authorization bill the House will consider Thursday contains a provision that would require the president to inform more than 40 members of Congress - rather than eight members currently - about secret actions taken overseas to influence events in other countries.

The provision is an effort to wrest back oversight power ceded to former President George W. Bush during his two terms when U.S. intelligence agencies expanded their surveillance authority and used harsh interrogation tactics that President Barack Obama now calls torture.

[incog-nito]

This has nothing to do with Obama, fools. This power struggle has been going on since the beginning of the republic. The executive and legislative branch constantly fight over power and oversight. Let Obama veto it, and let's see if Congress can override. If history is any indication, more oversight is usually better than less, especially when it comes to covert CIA operations.

[abbe91]

Is there a provision in the bill for those who leak CIA operations to reporters ?

[hermitdave]

WOW--So the CIA would have to inform 40 worthless bums instead of 8. Obama better be careful or the entire phony war on terror scam could fall apart. This required lots of top secret stuff. It wasn't easy to put a small band of CIA covert soldiers of fortune into a threat as big as Germany and Japan in WW-2. Good thing the government had millions of very very stupid humans and full cooperation of the managed news media. Otherwise when the TV and radio news of 9/11/01 hit, more than a handful of humans might have asked how the heck steel buildings could fall down from fire, and how airliners could crash leaving less wreckage than a piper cub.

[wdh3007]

The United States of America is currently under dictatorship with this unqualified failed president. Now Mr. Obama has made an illegal back door deal with Putin the PM of Russia to cut 1/3 of our nuclear arsenal without approval from the U.S. Congress. Now he threatens to veto the Intel Bill making it harder to permit CIA covert operations around the globe in the fight against radical Islam.
It is now clearly evidant that this president as many predicted has crossed the line once again and in many opinions needs to be removed using federal articles of impeachment for commiting abuse of power. He is a threat to our nations national security and is a clear and present danger to the United States. With this being said we must demand more from our government it's leaders and the people that make up this once great nation so that our country does not fall back from the very principles upon which it was founded.

[nofoolling]

Anyone who has ever watched a building being demolished on purpose knows that if you're going to do this you have to get at the under-infrastructure of the building to bring it down. Peter Jennings, ABC News 9/11/2001

In perfect conditions the maximum temperature that can be reached by hydrocarbons such as jet fuel burning in air is 1520° F (825° C). When the World Trade Center collapsed the deeply buried fires would have been deprived of oxygen and their temperatures would have significantly decreased.

One week after 911

The temperature at the core of "the pile," is near 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to fire officials, who add that the fires are too deep for firefighters to get to. [ABC News, 9/18/01]

Why was the temperature at the core of "the pile" nearly 500° F hotter than the maximum burning temperature of jet fuel a full seven days after the collapses?

The picture at the very bottom of the website listed below shows what appears to be a classic thermite signature (which burns at about 2500 degrees), from explosives typically used on core girders in controlled demolitions. Or perhaps you could explain how the core girders shown were sheared so exactly and melted as is clearly shown? This may be as close to the ?smoking gun? as logic demands.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.html?q=thermite.html

Keep asking questions.

[maistir]

Some who post here seem to think that "transparency" extends to secret services around the globe. It doesn't.

If there is a need for covert actions by the CIA to begin with, then those actions need to remain secret for the standard 30-50 years. If Senators and Representatives did their job (a big if), three or four members of Congress would be adequate for oversight.

Pres. Obama has obviously learned to guard jealously the powers of the presidency that he loathed when Pres. Bush was in office.

[rhs648]

Same old, Same old.

[IrishWench01]

People slay me!! Transparency in government? Why don't we just include all nations in on a big conference call weekly. Share all of our secrets, national security decisions, open up all our files and intel...post them all online even. We have people in government and the White House now that can't keep their mouths shut. Releasing info without their name released because they aren't authorized to speak.
When did everybody get the idea that everything that goes on should be public knowledge? I wasn't that way in years gone by and it never will be. That's what history is for and the release of documents After the information can no longer jeopardize our national security.

[despido]

Obama is laughable. He's all in-favor of 'disclosure' until it involves him.

[excoachken]

Hey Bo, those of us whop voted for you want the "transparency" that you promised us.

[sjc_1]

I would rather see power given to those that get briefed now to get verification on the briefing intelligence. After the WMD excuse for invading Iraq, I think they need to at least have that.

[erasmus111]

From what I have seen, Congress is made up of a bunch of CROOKS. The less involved they are in ANYTHING, the better.

[horse3farm]

No one would listen when I pleaded, "Don't vote for Obama!" He's justified all the terror I felt inside should he be elected. We need to do something people...check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA

[lorinkundert]

Come on comrade Obama, it was you who came out swinging at Bush because he would not do what you are being asked to do. We remember very clearly what you said during your campaign and you are going to do as you said and what the Constitution requires.

[WiseWidget]

Anything that can be done to restore checks and balances in our government would be an improvement. We don't want to see another reign of terror like we saw with Bush. Congress rubber stamped everything Bush wanted and look where that got us! Those of us giving Obama a little time to do the right thing will be fading fast if he doesn't shape up and demonstrate some law abiding behavior. We are tired of having criminals run this country.

[stn_sage]

Absolutely!

[stn_sage]

Then veto the d*a*m*n bill! Don't threaten, Congress!

Veto it, and be 'faced-down' by your own party!

President Obama is lucky, if I was a Congressman, I would have tacked on an amendment prohibiting the use of 'signing statements'!

Congress needs to 'pick up the pace' they're falling behind in what needs to be done!

[hawksprings]

Comrade Obama isn't so transparent, is he.
That's the "Change" I expected from him.