2 articles on Bush's new Executive Order unveiled.... will he leave in Jan?

It is a shame Shasha got mentioned.

Before you discount this story, see it reported here:

http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/president-bush-overha...

or do the tinyurl:

http://tinyurl.com/6euega

I want Ron Paul, the man who should be President, to sound off on this story.

The cowards in congress have given the executive branch the mandate to do whatever the hell it wants to do.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080731-2.html

Executive Order: Further Amendments to Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities
Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Revision of Executive Order 12333
Executive Order 12333: United States Intelligence Activities (as amended) Statement by the Press Secretary Fact Sheet: A Lasting Framework for United States Intelligence Activities
In Focus: National Security

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458), and in order to update and clarify Executive Order 13355 of August 27, 2004, Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows:

Does no one here know how to google? Really, just type in "Bush Executive order August 1, 2008" and you'll get the story

EVERYONE needs to know this-its horrifying and will cripple our ability to decipher what is really going on in our nation and around the world. We no longer have the ability to find out things Ron Paul has cited-like blowback. THE MOST INSIDIOUS part of this order is that unlike his other orders it is enacted WITHOUT a national emergency.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-31-Bush-orde...

Bush's order expands role of national intelligence chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's new executive order revising rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence director's powers and may further erode the CIA's traditional autonomy.
The order, revised in secret and signed Wednesday, is drawing criticism from civil liberties groups and even lawmakers from the president's own party.

House Republicans on the intelligence committee walked out of a Thursday morning briefing by the national intelligence director, Mike McConnell, on the order to protest what they consider the White House's pattern of disrespect for congressional oversight.

Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Thursday widening the scope of authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Bush's order revises Executive Order 12333, which was issued by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to establish guidelines on intelligence activities. It gives the DNI authority to institute reforms and set priorities for the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. It also transfers the power to work and oversee relationships with foreign spy agencies from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the DNI.

The new order is the result of reforms to the intelligence community after the September 11, 2001 attacks, including the creation of the DNI under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

"Implementation of the revised Executive Order will help create an Intelligence Community that is more unified, shares information more freely, effectively coordinates its actions, and collaborates more closely to provide policymakers the support needed to make difficult decisions affecting our national and homeland security," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in a statement.

Lawmakers, however, were not pleased with what they said was the absence of consultation about revisions to the order.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), a ranking minority member of the House Intelligence panel, led a walkout of fellow Republicans during a briefing by DNI's Mike McConnell on Thursday.

"The administration knows that a PowerPoint briefing to staff and notifying the committee after leaking details of an executive order to the media does not constitute briefing the congressional intelligence committees as they have claimed," Hoekstra said in a statement statement, according to Politico.

Panel chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) said he supported strengthening the DNI and ending "the turf wars that have plagued American intelligence," but that he was "disappointed" by the President's failure to consult Congress.

"After seven years of a go-it-alone presidency, perhaps I should expect nothing more from this White House. But this order will be binding on future administrations as well. For that reason, we must conduct effective oversight, so that we can advise the next President of whether this order should remain in effect or should be repealed," Reyes added in his written statement.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011802817

So, now is this news?

I added the 2nd post to the heading. Don't get thrown off by the side show of who Sorcha Faal is or is not... this is vital info.

Guys, guys, guys,

Please do your research. Sorcha Faal has been seeding the internet with patently false claims and misinformation for quite a while.

My personal belief is that her outrageous and easily to disprove claims are an effort to make the Freedom Movement look like fools.

Do a little research before you post. Just recently someone else posted a "press release" from an European bank predicting doom in US. It could have been found out in two minutes with a search that the release was false.

Don't fall for the misinformation and the psyops. And please support to spread the SIGN BOMB. LETS FLOOD ST PAUL WITH RON PAUL SIGNS AND SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE COUNTRY.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/50462

You all should be telling your friends and neighbors of the whispers on the web, your personal fear, intuition, anyhting that this is a POSSIBILITY. Because it is. This guy has proven time and again that he is not bound to our constitution. And if he does do something of this magnitude the people you warn will have thier fondations cracked and will seek you out for answers. But remember it is just a POSSIBILITY right now.

What is real is that his power is increasing and that it is even possible, for the first time in a long time...

Aku Soku Zan

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Ron Paul Supporter Since 1997
“We have allowed our nation to be over taxed and over regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, the founders would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with” Ron Paul

This person does not exist. It's a big joke. Don't believe this stuff people. Our government may be on the way down, but it's not at this point yet. I'm not saying it couldn't get there. It's just not there yet.

Both of the following are true:
"Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you."
"Just because you read it doesn't mean it's true."

Use common sense, please?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread304918/pg1

I think this should make nearly anybody aware that we are seeing the rise of the "new Hitler".

I hope everybody has their firearms and ammunition in order, as well as their bug-out gear and their survival provisions.

Historically, when this type of stuff happens, there is a massive "purge" of all dissidents. Which means all dissidents are either killed or permanently incarcerated without trial. I think the term "disappeared" comes to mind.
Stalin killed at least 30 milliion, and countless others were put in the Gulags.

Be aware.

for Liberty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgzfu_b6v44
http://www.dvds4delegates.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57925480@N00/2660779139/sizes/l/

is corrupting absolutely. We have seen this time and time again, and soon we will see this in America. I am truly afraid to see this happen. I love my country, but I hate the path that it is going down. I also find it amazing that in this day and age of the "free press" that we have to go to foreign countries to get accurate news about what is happening in our own country. This is how you know that you are living in a propaganda controlled society.

to let the rest of the world know, that not all Americans believe are want what is happening. History is repeating itself and I feel powerless to stop it. Peace

This news is consistent with what I learned from Naomi Wolf's "Ten Steps to Fascisim" last year. We can see the direction we are being lead.

Posted on Fri, Aug. 1, 2008

Bush restructures nation's intelligence-gathering
By Joby Warrick

Washington Post

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration yesterday announced a restructuring of the nation's intelligence-gathering apparatus, approving guidelines that bolster the Director of National Intelligence as the leader of the 16 U.S. spy agencies.
The changes were part of a long-awaited overhaul of a Ronald Reagan-era executive order that establishes the powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence services. Most of the revisions were aimed at underscoring the predominant role of the DNI, created by Congress three years ago in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The revamped order specifically gives the DNI charge of setting priorities for the 16 spy agencies as well as issuing guidelines on how intelligence is collected, analyzed and shared - including foreign intelligence, traditionally the domain of the CIA.

It also gives the DNI a greater voice in hiring and firing senior intelligence officials.

The document calls on intelligence agencies to use "all reasonable and lawful means" to safeguard U.S. citizens, and reaffirms the nation's "long-standing commitment to protecting civil liberties," a senior administration official said in a briefing to reporters about the changes.

The official, who spoke on the condition he not be identified by name, called the order a "foundational document" that will clarify responsibilities and improve coordination.

The prohibition against assassinations of foreign leaders, as well as long-standing restrictions on human experimentation, is still in effect, according to the document. It asserts that the intelligence agencies would "maintain or strengthen privacy and civil-liberty protections."

Democrats and Republicans criticized the administration for what they said was needless secrecy in its development of the reforms.

"We were only shown the document after it was complete and on its way to the president for his signature," said Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D., Texas), chairman of the House intelligence committee.

The committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, said: "Given the impact that this order will have on America's intelligence community, and this committee's responsibility to oversee intelligence activities, this cannot be seen as anything other than an attempt to undercut congressional oversight."

just WOW. No more dissenting views, no more knowledge of "blowback", get ready for all the misinformation to start piling up.

how many shovels is it going to take now to get to bottom of the lies?