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布什的監視人為智力安靜地保持了5 1/2年
星期天， 2007年7月15日
它在恐怖戰爭中沒有報告任何不良行為直到`06 一個獨立檢察委員會被創造辨認智力惡習，在70年代的CIA醜聞沒有寄發任何報告到法律侵害檢察長在布什政府的反恐怖主義努力的前5 1/2年期間之後，司法部告訴了國會。 雖然FBI告訴板幾百法律或由它自己的代理統治侵害在9月以後。 11日2001年，攻擊，委員會沒有辨認哪些的確是法律侵害。 今年春天， 2006年它批轉了侵害報告，官員認為。 總統的Intelligence檢察委員會-情報機構的主要平民監視人-被強制在它相信的一個26年老行政命令之下告訴檢察長和總統關於所有智力活動「可以是不合法的」。 委員會是空置布什政府的前二年。 FBI寄發了它的侵害報告的拷貝直接地到Alberto Gonzales檢察長。 但委員會的命令是提供獨立失察，因此缺乏這樣的通信帶領了評論家問題委員會是否做它的工作。 「它現在是明顯的IOB不是正積極招聘的在管理的早期部分。 并且它是一個關鍵的期間，當它的忠告將似乎必要多數」，說安東尼Harrington，起委員會的主席作用對於大多數克林頓政府。 參議院司法委員會主席帕特里克Leahy， D-Vt。，增加： 「它在它的當局令人困擾這管理似乎非常花費它的能量，并且資源設法發現辦法忽略其中任一檢查和深深地平衡并且避免責任對國會和美國公眾」。 白宮女發言人Dana Perino說「總統等工作在反恐怖主義和智力的每一個人嚴密地遵循法律-的星期五，并且，如果有事例，那未發生，故意地或non-intentionally，及時地盼望它改正他」。 她說白宮依靠國家情報的總統任命的主任監測問題。 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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