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We Need Congress To Be The Boss

Posted on April 25, 2014, 11:01 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The CIA operates in stealth; it is associated with some of the worst abuses of power in recent American history, including assassinations, coups, and torture; it has military capabilities. Congress needs to be firmly in control of its relationship with such an agency. The Constitution demands no less.

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The Secret Warriors’ Secret Law Unveiled (Sort Of)

Posted on February 3, 2013, 11:58 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

For the moment, we already have something semi-substantive. We should have had it long ago. This is not Kafka’s Mitteleuropa. It’s our government and our information. We should not have had to wait for leakers to get our hands on it.

Tags: Al Quaeda, assassinations, Attorney General Eric Holder, Authorization of the Use of Military Force, battle-zone, Civil War, combatants, Confederate States of America, definition of war, drone killings, drone warfare, drones, due process, enemy combatants, Eric Holder, FOIA, FOIA exemptions, Frank Kafka, Freedom of Information Act, Herr K, Hostilities, Judge Colleen McMahon, Judge McMahon, killing of Americans, killing of innocents, law of war, legal memos, nation of laws not of men, non-combatants, Northwestern University, Office of Legal Counsel, OLD, police actions, proportionality, secret law, secret war, separation of powers, Southern District of New York, Taliban, The Trial
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

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We Need Congress To Be The Boss

The Secret Warriors’ Secret Law Unveiled (Sort Of)

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