The Gestapo and The Central Intelligence Agency might have common grounds

[lovuian]

The Gestapo and The Central Intelligence Agency might have common grounds very soon
08/17/2004 19:11
Representative Porter Goss, Bush"s favorite for the head of the CIA, has introduced legislation that would allow the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States-including arbitrary arrests of American citizens.
The legislation, H.R. 4584, was put on the floor on 16 June 2004, under the guise of "intelligence reform". The changes would reverse a 57 year old ruling that disallowed the CIA from conducting internal law enforcement activities. The bill would give the CIA broader authority to include arresting Americans suspected of what ever might be arbitrarily deemed as suspicious. Apparently there is not going to be any hard and fast rules - only a perspective judgment call "I think this person may be a crimer".

The bill"s language is not fully known yet, but it would add the clause "except as otherwise permitted by law or as directed by the president". This would give Bush the ultimate retaliatory weapon against his critics which he deems as "unpatriotic" and "anti-American

more...
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/13802_CIA.html

This just gets uglier and uglier

:argh: