Dear senator Feinstein
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I would like to talk to about the mismanagement of information and transparency by The Central Intelligence Agency. From its inception in the 1940’s the CIA has misused its power, abusing the rights of American civilians, drugging them without their prior knowledge or consent, torture and attempted brainwashing of civilians, the spending millions of dollars on fruitless projects, the assassination of foreign leaders, the funding of foreign military of enterprises, doing this all under the permission of the National Security Act giving them free reign to do what they pleas without having to answer to any authority or share the maters of their actions. It is a ghastly thing that this happened in the pass but it is bright and promising that steps are being taken to counter this with the formation of the Senate Intelligence Comity taking steps to bring the CIA to accountability.
Grater bounds are being made today in the legislative and executive branches through the Obama Administration’s Executive Order 13526, in that information on actions that have been committed as well as ones to come will start to become transparent and available to the American people. Also the amendments made to The National Security Act made by Congress and the creation as well as reworking of The Annual Intelligence Authorization Acts making it so that the CIA must answer to the higher government authority, approve their actions and added limits to what they can do. These are all great things that have happened in order to protect the citizens and keep the CIA in check but more still needs to happen, The CIA should have to go through all three branches of government to get approval for their proposed action while all of this is within total view of the public so that they will know what is going on and not have that information hidden from them. I think this will lead to a stronger trust and involvement in the government by the people helping to build a stronger country.
Sincerely Ross Decker
5467 Fontaine Street
San Diego, CA 92120
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Op Ed
Op Ed by Ross Decker
The American people deserve a pristine recount of the CIA’s past action as well as the true facts on what the CIA is doing today. Though out the history of the CIA the agency has exceeded the limits of their power cloaked their actions from The U.S. government and its people. At the end of WWII the United States Military’s Office of Strategic Services was splintered and in The 1947 National Security Act created The Central Intelligence Agency of today. With the start of the cold war fueled by the rising fear of the communist threat, the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed which allowed the CIA to ovoid public disclosers on use of funds, employees, salaries and actions. In the heat of the cold war openness and limits for the government where push aside in the zealous race of the world super powers. With limits gone moral consciousness, constitutional thought and respect of the individual freedoms of people soon follow. Starting out as project BLUEBIRD and ending with project MKULTRA these projects run by the CIA entailed various covert operations and projects ranging from chemical interrogation to remote mind control, the vast majority of this work was done on unwitting American civilians with out the slightest bit of for warning. With the little information that has survived the file destruction of the early 70’s it is still bindingly clear that the CIA has committed inhuman atrocities against U.S. citizens.
Amendments have been to the National Security Act as well as The Central Intelligence Agency Act and executive orders have been made but not enough decisive actions have been made. President Obama speaks of a transparent government but I have only seen little action. America is no longer the Wild West it once was and it is time for America to cast off the ideas of a neo manifest destiny to move towards true progress leading to an America of awareness of our true history so that it can never be allowed to happen again. The Cold War ended a long time ago and so with it should the tools that with it was fought be forged into new one of appropriate propose. I do not think that CIA has reached the point of being obsolete but rather focused needs to be shifted, limits and structure put into place, accountability brought to the forefront.
The only feasible way to correct the CIA’s misuse of ability and major gape in accountability is to require them to receiving total governmental approval and while it is all in the public light. The first step that must be taken for approval of any proposed CIA action or funding request must receive Judicial review and approval, this is to insure that what is proposed to constitutional in nature. Secondly it must go through Legislation receiving approval from Congress, this is so that the American public can know what is going on and have a chance to be vocal about any discrepancies they have with what is being proposed. The final step would be Executive approval and inaction, this is so that there is some one publicly charged with accountability for what the CIA dose. By going through these steps, justice, order, security and peace of mind can prevail. With these measures put into place the misdeeds of the past cannot repeat in the future.
The American people deserve a pristine recount of the CIA’s past action as well as the true facts on what the CIA is doing today. Though out the history of the CIA the agency has exceeded the limits of their power cloaked their actions from The U.S. government and its people. At the end of WWII the United States Military’s Office of Strategic Services was splintered and in The 1947 National Security Act created The Central Intelligence Agency of today. With the start of the cold war fueled by the rising fear of the communist threat, the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed which allowed the CIA to ovoid public disclosers on use of funds, employees, salaries and actions. In the heat of the cold war openness and limits for the government where push aside in the zealous race of the world super powers. With limits gone moral consciousness, constitutional thought and respect of the individual freedoms of people soon follow. Starting out as project BLUEBIRD and ending with project MKULTRA these projects run by the CIA entailed various covert operations and projects ranging from chemical interrogation to remote mind control, the vast majority of this work was done on unwitting American civilians with out the slightest bit of for warning. With the little information that has survived the file destruction of the early 70’s it is still bindingly clear that the CIA has committed inhuman atrocities against U.S. citizens.
Amendments have been to the National Security Act as well as The Central Intelligence Agency Act and executive orders have been made but not enough decisive actions have been made. President Obama speaks of a transparent government but I have only seen little action. America is no longer the Wild West it once was and it is time for America to cast off the ideas of a neo manifest destiny to move towards true progress leading to an America of awareness of our true history so that it can never be allowed to happen again. The Cold War ended a long time ago and so with it should the tools that with it was fought be forged into new one of appropriate propose. I do not think that CIA has reached the point of being obsolete but rather focused needs to be shifted, limits and structure put into place, accountability brought to the forefront.
The only feasible way to correct the CIA’s misuse of ability and major gape in accountability is to require them to receiving total governmental approval and while it is all in the public light. The first step that must be taken for approval of any proposed CIA action or funding request must receive Judicial review and approval, this is to insure that what is proposed to constitutional in nature. Secondly it must go through Legislation receiving approval from Congress, this is so that the American public can know what is going on and have a chance to be vocal about any discrepancies they have with what is being proposed. The final step would be Executive approval and inaction, this is so that there is some one publicly charged with accountability for what the CIA dose. By going through these steps, justice, order, security and peace of mind can prevail. With these measures put into place the misdeeds of the past cannot repeat in the future.
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