Hmm. I'd really like to know just how much of intelligence work is outsourced to private contractors. And to whom. For how much. And by what rules the contractors are supposed to play.
US Director of National Intelligence legs it
James Clapper, who as Director of National Intelligence was economical with the truth when it came to acknowledging US domestic surveillance activities subsequently revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has announced his resignation. Clapper isn't resigning over lies, but instead because it's traditional for heads like …
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Thursday 17th November 2016 23:47 GMT Mark 85
Re: Oblig Goon Show Quote
Wyden and others have to be a bit careful at this point. With the new Congress coming in, he could get booted off the committee. So far, he's been one of the few who don't like all the surveillance and snooping. If Trump decides it's ok and the critics are too outspoken, it's likely the critics can get bounced off the committees.
I wish Congress would file charges against him and Comey for lying under oath. It might bring some accountability to the government. But that probably won't happen as no one wants to be accountable.
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Friday 18th November 2016 23:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
@Mark 85 - booting Wyden off the committee
No, that's not how it works. Just because the republicans have a majority doesn't mean they get to choose what democrats are on which committees. The democrats decide who they want for their seats in the various committees, and republicans have no say at all. Those with more seniority get first choice, so Wyden will remain where he is.
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Friday 18th November 2016 00:43 GMT Throatwarbler Mangrove
@BillG Re: Oblig Goon Show Quote
What are you on about? Wyden is clearly opposed to the surveillance which has happened under this administration and is putting forth the statement that he hopes that the Oompa Loompa in Chief will do better. The phrase "not fucking likely" leaps to mind, of course.
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Thursday 17th November 2016 22:11 GMT Youngone
No-one is serious about this
As far as I can tell, lying while under oath to a Congressional Committee is a crime punishable by a fine and up to 5 years prison, but everyone lies all the time, and no-one is punished for it.
All that blather about how outraged the American people are is a total load. Nothing will happen and they know it.
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Friday 18th November 2016 05:28 GMT macjules
"I got 64 days left and I think I'd have a hard time with my wife anything past that."
Director of National Intelligence maybe, Director of Mangling English .. definitely. I presume that in his tenure as DNI he was responsible for that most bastardisation of English: 'disinsurgentivisation' to describe removal of Daesh/Al Queda in Iraq.
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Friday 18th November 2016 09:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
I urge the next administration to take a different approach
I presume the senator's not that stupid (how can this new administration take a "different approach", when the out-going one, apparently so cuddly, had THAT approach already?), so he must be peddling his split of a second of airtime :(
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Friday 18th November 2016 09:26 GMT amanfromMars 1
What you have to look forward to ....... ‽ .
Forewarned is forearmed. Don't be pwnd. You know it makes sense :-)
amanfromMars [1611170443/0454*/0516**] … said in reply to a comment on http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/india-bans-cash-now-gold/
Please give an example of a false fact as opposed to a "true fact"...tinfoilhattt
Happy to oblige, amigo.
:-) .... Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction "and his military planning allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them." is a real doozy and titanic howler of a prime sub-prime example, tinfoilhattt. ......... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier
Lord Haw Haw would have been proud of Tony Blair and the UK Parliament and the Establishment for those false facts.
And yes, a false fact is a disaster of a monumental lie and leads all who believe in it to a virtual reality which has no fundamental structures based on live truths ....... everything is contrived and fabricated/prefabricated in perverse and corrupted think tanks/right dodgy criminalising organisations with ready access to subservient, compliant and ignorant mass mainstream media operations ‽ .
Or is all of that a false fact rather than a gathering of true facts?
*And the abiding expanding problem for all such dodgy criminalised and criminalising systems is that the truth cannot be beaten and defeated and it will always surface and become general and global common knowledge sooner or later ……. and in these new times with virtual spaces of anonymous and autonomous remote command and cyber control, is it always sooner than expected and was ever thought humanly possible.
**More false facts tales and faux pas news news here ..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-16/mike-krieger-rages-fake-news-debacle-its-all-out-media-war ...... AI, IT and Media, it's a Hearts and Minds Capturing Great Game is it not ‽ .
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Friday 18th November 2016 15:14 GMT Pompous Git
Re: What you have to look forward to ....... ‽ .
Please give an example of a false fact as opposed to a "true fact"...tinfoilhattt
[pedant] Sorry amanfromMars, but you are wrong.Happy to oblige, amigo.
A fact (OED): "Something that has really occurred or is actually the case; something certainly known to be of this character; hence, a particular truth known by actual observation or authentic testimony, as opposed to what is merely inferred, or to a conjecture or fiction; a datum of experience, as distinguished from the conclusions that may be based upon it".
The "false facts" whereof you squeak are inferences, not particular truths.
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