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布什的监视人为智力安静地保持了5 1/2年
星期天， 2007年7月15日
它在恐怖战争中没有报告任何不良行为直到`06 一个独立检察委员会被创造辨认智力恶习，在70年代的CIA丑闻没有寄发任何报告到法律侵害检察长在布什政府的反恐怖主义努力的前5 1/2年期间之后，司法部告诉了国会。 虽然FBI告诉板几百法律或由它自己的代理统治侵害在9月以后。 11日2001年，攻击，委员会没有辨认哪些的确是法律侵害。 今年春天， 2006年它批转了侵害报告，官员认为。 总统的Intelligence检察委员会-情报机构的主要平民监视人-被强制在它相信的一个26年老行政命令之下告诉检察长和总统关于所有智力活动“可以是不合法的”。 委员会是空置布什政府的前二年。 FBI寄发了它的侵害报告的拷贝直接地到Alberto Gonzales检察长。 但委员会的命令是提供独立失察，因此缺乏这样的通信带领了评论家问题委员会是否做它的工作。 “它现在是明显的IOB不是正积极招聘的在管理的早期部分。 并且它是一个关键的期间，当它的忠告将似乎必要多数”，说安东尼Harrington，起委员会的主席作用对于大多数克林顿政府。 参议院司法委员会主席帕特里克Leahy， D-Vt。，增加： “它在它的当局令人困扰这管理似乎非常花费它的能量，并且资源设法发现办法忽略其中任一检查和深深地平衡并且避免责任对国会和美国公众”。 白宫女发言人Dana Perino说“总统等工作在反恐怖主义和智力的每一个人严密地遵循法律-的星期五，并且，如果有事例，那未发生，故意地或non-intentionally，及时地盼望它改正他”。 她说白宫依靠国家情报的总统任命的主任监测问题。 Through five previous administrations, members of the board — all civilians not employed by the government — have been privy to some of America’s most secret intelligence operations and have served as a private watchdog against unpublicized abuses. The subjects of their investigations and the resulting reports are nearly all classified. The Bush administration first appointed board members in 2003. Since then, the CIA and the National Security Agency have been caught up in controversy over interrogation tactics at secret prisons, the transfer of prisoners to countries that use torture, and domestic wiretapping not reviewed by federal courts. Until recently, the board had not told the attorney general about any wrongdoing. “The attorney general has no record of receiving reports from the IOB regarding intelligence activities alleged to be potentially unlawful or contrary to executive order or presidential directive,” the Justice Department told the House Judiciary Committee in a May 9 letter. White House officials said the board began forwarding reports of problems shortly thereafter. White House officials declined to discuss the board’s interactions with President Bush, and said its members could not be interviewed for this report. President Gerald Ford created the board in the mid-1970s after the Church Committee identified numerous abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. President Ronald Reagan made the board permanent with an executive order in 1981 and gave it the mission to identify legal violations. Harrington said that under President Bill Clinton, the board sent reports of legal violations by intelligence agencies promptly to the attorney general. Officials said it concluded that the administration showed poor judgment in supporting Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia, and it complained about the CIA’s policy of employing known torturers or killers as informants in Latin America. Perino said that during the first two years of the Bush administration, a career intelligence officer at the White House collected and reviewed reports in which the FBI and other intelligence agencies self-disclosed violations of civil liberties and privacy safeguards. The board’s three or four members — it has alternated over the years — are usually drawn from the larger President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which advises the commander in chief on U.S. intelligence policy and performance. The board now in place is led by former Bush economic adviser Stephen Friedman. It includes Don Evans, friend of the president and a former Commerce secretary, former Adm. David Jeremiah and lawyer Arthur Culvahouse. Perino said the board’s “original unique mission and primary oversight role has been supplemented” in recent years by new layers of government. The administration now relies on the director of national intelligence — a job created in 2005 — to watch for abuses, along with presidentially appointed inspector generals. As a result, Bush is considering changes to Reagan’s executive order, she said. On Friday, the FBI and the Justice Department announced several reforms meant to strengthen internal oversight, including the creation of a legal “compliance office” inside the bureau and a review office inside the department that will regularly examine all violations. Separately, Gonzales wrote the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, to defend his 2005 testimony that there had been no verified civil liberties abuses during the first three years of the efforts against terrorism. The Washington Post reported last week that the FBI had sent Gonzales a half-dozen reports of violations of civil liberties and privacy safeguards before his testimony. Gonzales wrote Friday that he did not consider the conduct in those reports to be abuses because the violations involved mistakes, not deliberate misconduct. “My testimony was completely truthful, and I stand by that testimony,” he wrote. This article appeared on page A - 13 of the San?Francisco?Chronicle Have Your Say: Bush’s watchdog for intelligence kept quiet for 5 1/2 years Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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