House approach on Benghazi: Crazy — or plain stupid? (comments below the N.B.L. game)

Posted on 17/06/2013 by kgrant7858

(Day 575 ! – In the Hostage Situation of the Murder In Action of Jacob Tate and day 128 of a Sanctioned War ) ‘currently on the road – in Bozeman, MT.’ !

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To the Land that ‘ Joe Never heard of Me ‘…….. (lol)……. ‘ I AM Back ‘

The Score = Blondes 8 / Brunette’s 8

Frank: ‘Well be back in a moment for the first play from scrimmage for the Brunettes)

Note: Interesting Article by Jenny (Pull over I have to Change a Diaper) McCarthy (must read)

‘ The Quote from Rumsfeld said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “ The other thing that’s worrisome is, as they say, truth leaves on horseback and returns on foot.”

Note: As previously seen on the N.B.L. Game (no new game today, PLAY will resume on Monday June 17th, 2013)

The Play by Frank: ‘ Hello everyone were back and as you know the Brunette’s made an incomplete pass attempt to WW Stared at Ridge Ruea in the end zone bringing up a 2^nd and goal.

Don: Littlest N was open on the 1 yard line and could have stepped right in for the score.

Howard: that seems to be the problem, getting an opportunity for Littlest N to step right in for the score ‘again’ is not apparently viable at the present time

Don: Well, either way there appears to be a slight momentum shift which has occurred

Howard: It’s his psyche and he knows it

Frank: What do you mean ?

Howard: Well as you know, we will have a more complete interview at half time but here’s a quick segment and you’ll see what I mean

The Man Interview – Outtake

Howard: Tell me a little of your expectations of the Government and your business Grant Marketing Group in relation to your son-in-law ?

The Man: Well there is always the ‘written and the implied’ aspect of any contract

Howard: Go on

The Man: In ‘any and all’ of the conversations with the F.B.I., the ‘expectation’ both written and implied ‘was’ to continue to be a SECRET Operation which ‘could go away’ at any time ‘by my choosing’

Howard: Explain that

The Man: They (FBI) appreciated ‘any and all’ information I was bringing on the Middle East and had ‘expressed’ that I had helped them

Howard: What went wrong ?

The Man: Knowing my son-in-law was taken out and Murdered on his last mission and it wasn’t the Taliban who did it. And then they tried to cover it up.

Howard: SO how does that effect your relationship with the F.B.I. And the C.I.A. ?

The Man: They ‘did not’ perform to contract

Howard: How So ?

The Man: ‘ I was promised that ‘they’ (F.B.I.) would look out for myself, my children and that included my son-in-law Jacob Tate who was serving in Afghanistan.

Howard: SO the F.B.I. Had knowledge of Jacob’s where about’s in Afghanistan.

The Man: Absolutely, I knew either way, the F.B.I. Would know ‘who Jacob was’, so I told them ‘directly’ who and where he was.

Howard: anybody else ?

The Man: Yes, not only did Dave McKean ‘know’, so did the people who came up from Denver and met with me at Ted’s and the C.I.A. counter parts in ‘both meetings’ at the hotel in Bozeman.

Howard: So if I understand you ‘correctly’, pretty much everyone who was involved with Grant Marketing Group ‘within’ the F.B.I. And the C.I.A. ‘knew’ or ‘had knowledge’ of Jacob’s where abouts and Unit in Afghanistan ?

The Man: Absolutely, either way they would find out. SO I told them directly.

Howard: So why then did you ‘decide’ to Go Public with TRUTHABOUTTHECIA.ORG ?

The Man: They Broke the Contract by not protecting Jacob and trying to Frame Me for the Order to Iran

Howard: Is that Legal

The Man: It’s ‘basic contract law’ between two parties

Howard: do you think that will hold up in a court ?

The Man: It will hold up in any court in the land ‘if’ it ever get’s to court

Howard: You sound confident

The Man: I am

Howard: SO that’s the way your going on this ?

The Man: Not necessarily

Howard: What do you mean ?

The Man: On January 2^nd, 2011 ‘the gloves came off’, 574 days ago I figured it out. Prior to that, I implemented a solution on Jacob’s last mission and ‘they’ started with Benghazi and have been implementing in Afghanistan as well.

Howard: When will it stop ?

The Man: AS soon as ‘they’ decide to bring this to Trial, then the method of war will change

Howard: and you ?

The Man: I’m committed to the Mission, it’s that simple

Frank: Interesting perspective

Don: Well the Brunette’s are coming out with a different formation on the 5 Yard Line of the Blondes

Howard: In for the Brunette’s is T Brunette, L Lipgloss, T Banks, WW Stared at Ridge Ruea and WHD Washington

Frank: they appear to be lining up in a Wildcat formation with WHD Washington back in the Quarterback position and T Banks is lining up as a Tight End and RB Bozeman is lining up in a ruining back position just to the right of WHD Washington

Don: This is causing a little confusion on the side of the blondes as they are watching both RB Bozeman and WHD Washington

Frank: OK, I can’t take it on this one. What does WHD Washington’s initials stand for ?

Howard: ‘White House Down’ Washington of course

Frank: Well I’m wondering how The Man correlates that with Kerry Washington ?

Howard: When I asked him that, he just smiled and said; ‘ ridiculous ‘

Don: OK, here’s the snap and we have play action with the snap going to WHD Washington and she’s fading back to pass and ‘open’ at the line of scrimmage is RB Bozeman who catch’s the ball and is moving up-field and into the end zone for a score and 6 points !

Howard: We have a flag on the play and this ‘may come back’ !

Don: It appears to be against T Banks who had a hand on ‘HABM’ Campbell who was coming across from the linebacker position

Frank: A lot of activity on the side lines of the Blondes right now

Don: Look, that’s Laughs when Drives in the Cart chasing someone who is Cartwheeling off the field and into the Tunnel

Howard: No Worries, that’s just ‘Hides Behind Hair’ and ‘she was confused on the play’

Don: is it just me ?

Frank: No it’s not and we’ll be right back after a short time out

The Player So Named ‘BRINK’ displaying the same ‘Rock in Shoe’ technique as she did in the game.

Coach ‘Hides Behind Hair’

Quarter Back Coach for the Brunettes: Halle ‘the ridiculous’ Berry

Shannon (I’ll Show You How to Kiss) Tweed, Strength Coach for the Blondes

Hugh ( I did it right ) Hefner / Private Investor at Large

Maria (baby oil on the thigh’s was a nice touch) Bartiromo

Ted ‘Smoking Gun’ Turner – Large Private Investor ‘ At Large ‘

WW Wig-Out before Season Started

Rihanna ‘ the ridiculous ‘ being Ridiculous in a Pool without Cris

Claudia ‘Throwing Hair Like There’s No Tomorrow – Throwing Cleavage” Schiffer

Heather ‘ Put a Lip Lock on her Lower Half ‘Locklear (MILF in Stress)

Daniela ‘ Woman who Stared at The Ridge ‘ – Then teased on ESPN ‘ Ruha ‘ who-a I-a would-a Do-a ‘

Tyra ‘doing the smile’ Banks

Heidi 'the ridiclous' Klum

Heidi ‘ making a statement ‘ Klum making a statement for The Man

Oprah ‘ I can’t stop laughing’ Winfrey

Naomi ‘having a Blonde moment’ Campbell

Courteney ‘I’ve been feeling left out’ Cox

HBH (hides behind hair’s) Idea of a way to Calm down Keith Grant (The Man)

Selena ‘I started the Brunette Revolution’ Ward

And it all started in Alabama

Sophia ‘I’ll show you what an Italian Hottie Is’ Milos (drafted on 06/15/2013 per the Fucking Man) ‘ even Kelse say’s ‘ He’s the Fucking Man ‘

Kerry ‘White House Down’ Washington (ridiculous)

Jay Carney on the eventual projected outcome of Mr. Happy with his Quote of the Century; “There’s nothing secret,” Carney said.

Opinion Contributor

House approach on Benghazi: Crazy — or plain stupid?

The U.S. Capitol is shown. | John Shinkle/POLITICO

Each committee can deal with but part of the puzzle, the author writes. | John Shinkle/POLITICO

By FRED J. ECKERT | 6/16/13 9:52 PM EDT

Sometimes watching Speaker John Boehner and his House Republican “leadership” team in action calls to mind that scene from “Forrest Gump” in which Bubba’s mother looks incredulously at Forrest and asks: “Are you crazy — or just plain stupid?”

More than six months ago, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) introduced a proposal to create a House Select Committee on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, a select committee being generally regarded as the best way to ensure an intelligent, well-coordinated, bipartisan investigation without fear or favor.

Six months later, Wolf’s proposal is still stalled because a certain powerful interest group is blocking it. The powerful group keeping the House from doing the right thing is the House Republican “leadership.”

Boehner and his team are foolishly insisting on letting all six House committees that can claim any bit of jurisdiction for investigating what went wrong with Benghazi do so — Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Armed Services, Homeland Security and Oversight and Government Reform — despite the fact that each is restricted to its own narrow scope. This wastes time, duplicates effort and stymies clear focus.

Why insist on investigating the Benghazi scandal in such a maladroit manner? Because it: 1) frees Boehner from having to decide who should chair the investigation, thereby saving him from possibly offending the ones not selected; 2) enables six different committee chairs to bask in the spotlight as star of their very own investigation; and 3) gives every member who serves on one of these six committees — all 239 of them, or more than half of the House — a chance to appear on prime-time national television.

Focusing on profile, lacking in courage, Boehner’s way is all about big egos and little fiefdoms. By insisting on this ill-advised approach, Boehner and company are abrogating their responsibility to the country.

Benghazi is a very serious and complex matter. More serious and more complex than Watergate was — and its scope is much wider. Getting the lessons of Benghazi right has profound implications for national security. The core questions delve deeply into the military and intelligence capabilities of the United States and how well we execute those capabilities. The range of other questions includes such matters as how we protect our diplomatic service and how the decision-making process operated at the Defense Department, State Department, CIA and the White House during this crisis.

The effort to get to the truth about Benghazi needs to be equal to the seriousness of the issue. The free-for-all effort being insisted upon by Boehner is not. The select committee effort proposed by Wolf is.

Boehner’s approach all but guarantees chaos, confusion, excessive bickering and a needlessly long, drawn-out process with minimal prospect of a constructive end result.

Each committee can deal with but part of the puzzle. Some committees have overlapping jurisdiction, which means uncertainty over which part of the incomplete puzzle they look at. Some committees — especially Intelligence and Armed Services — would certainly have to take a fair amount of testimony in secret, which means the others couldn’t get an idea of the whole puzzle no matter how hard they tried.

And what if one of these six committees didn’t conduct an investigation? How could we ever put the pieces over which it has jurisdiction into the puzzle?

So Boehner’s hope is at best for six separate sections of a puzzle to emerge. Anyone interested in Benghazi could then try to join the puzzle sections together. Good grief!

Washington being Washington and politicians being politicians, imagine all the fun and games as a half-dozen committees compete against one another to schedule their hearings for the best TV time slots and compete over scheduling news conferences. What if one committee wants to grant immunity to a witness while another committee did not?

Whereas Boehner proposes to give the country a silly spectacle, Wolf’s proposal is for a 19-member select committee, consisting of a Republican and a Democrat from each of those six committees of jurisdiction, plus five members appointed by the speaker and two appointed by the speaker after consultation with the minority leader. The speaker• would appoint the chairman. It would have full subpoena power and be able to completely investigate all Benghazi issues across all jurisdictions.

Supporters of Wolf’s effort to do the investigation right include:

More than two out of three House Republicans — 158 of them.

Family members of Americans murdered in the attack.

The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, representing 26,000 federal law enforcement officers including Diplomatic Security Service officers, FBI agents, U.S. marshals, Secret Service agents and Border Patrol agents.

Special OPS OPSEC, an association of more than 700 retired Special Operations officials.

It makes no sense for Boehner and his team to block a more intelligent, more sensible, more efficient and more effective approach and insist on pursuing such a dimwitted one. By doing so, they are guilty of complicity in the Obama administration’s ongoing coverup efforts.

Besides being such poor government, it’s also mind-bogglingly idiotic as political strategy.

Boehner’s way is a gift to Barack Obama. It enables the president and his apologists to deflect attention from the core issue by railing against how the Republicans have unleashed not one but six separate committees with 133 Republican members all trying to damage him. It guarantees a mess that will assist Obama in his attempt to dismiss investigating Benghazi as nothing but a “sideshow” and it will embarrass all Republicans and turn off the general public.

Crazy? Or just plain stupid?

Perhaps it’s time for the two-thirds or more of House Republicans who have the good judgment and political savvy to be with Wolf rather than Boehner on this to find new “leaders” who understand the meaning of the word.

Fred J. Eckert is a former Republican congressman from New York and twice served as a U.S. ambassador under President Ronald Reagan.

House approach on Benghazi: Crazy — or plain stupid?

TRUTHABOUTTHECIA.ORG ‘S OFFICIAL RESPONSE:

‘ KELSE ! A round of Shot’s of Millagro, chilled – STAT ! ‘

Out of the PARK HOME RUN !

One of the most Well Written and concise articles on the Corruption and Cover Up of Benghazi that I have READ in ‘any news article about Benghazi !

And I ‘know how Benghazi happened’ I can assure you.

And I’m willing to take the Witness Stand under oath with a Lie Detector and look the families of those who lost loved ones in Benghazi. And tell the TRUTH !

Think About It

Keith Grant

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Patriot Act architect cries foul on NSA program, but skipped briefings (comments below N.B.L. game)

Posted on 17/06/2013 by kgrant7858

(Day 575 ! – In the Hostage Situation of the Murder In Action of Jacob Tate and day 128 of a Sanctioned War ) ‘currently on the road – in Bozeman, MT.’ !

To the Land that ‘ Joe Never heard of Me ‘…….. (lol)……. ‘ I AM Back ‘

The Score = Blondes 8 / Brunette’s 8

Frank: ‘Well be back in a moment for the first play from scrimmage for the Brunettes)

Note: Interesting Article by Jenny (Pull over I have to Change a Diaper) McCarthy (must read)

‘ The Quote from Rumsfeld said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “ The other thing that’s worrisome is, as they say, truth leaves on horseback and returns on foot.”

Note: As previously seen on the N.B.L. Game (no new game today, PLAY will resume on Monday June 17th, 2013)

The Play by Frank: ‘ Hello everyone were back and as you know there is a Team Penalty on the Blondes for ‘ Illegal Hair Formation ‘ and the Officials have discussed this with HBH who is playing Hard Ball on the Issue on the Infraction on player Naomi ‘having a Blonde moment’ Campbell.

Howard: Well, obviously they have an issue with her hair color as being Blonde and she is obviously a Brunette in hiding

Don: Now how can you tell that Howard ?

Howard: Jenny are you there ?

Jenny: Laughter, what Howard ?

Howard: I’m speaking with Don and Frank and I mentioned that obviously Naomi ‘ having a blonde moment ‘ Campbell was a Brunette and Don asked me ‘how can you tell’ ?

Jenny: Well, ya Howard, how can you tell ?

Howard: Jenny it’s obvious she’s a Brunette in hiding to me

Frank: There’s some movement up at The Man’s booth as he’s got his lights back on and the text that Littlest N sent in is not in effect so he’s ‘got his power back’

Jenny: No he doesn’t

Frank: What do you mean Jenny

Jenny: That guy hasn’t got any in so long the Girls are betting he can’t last 5 min’s

Frank: That seems a little harsh don’t you think ?

Jenny: Well, it’s not his fault

Frank: How can you say that

Jenny: It’s the truth, when he was living at 1208 Meagher in Bozeman. He had several times ladies try to come to his door and they were blocked by the police and private security.

Frank: Well, didn’t that have an effect on him

Jenny: It did Frank, because he ‘had no idea’ why this was being done to him

Frank: So what did he think ?

Jenny: During this time, he was doing consulting work for the F.B.I. And the C.I.A. and much of it was considered SECRET and/or TOP SECRET

Frank: SO did he think that was why that was happening

Jenny: No, he concluded ‘they’ were trying to TRAP him in his Business and work with the F.B.I. And the C.I.A., so he left

Frank: But what about the people who were trying to come in to talk with him

Jenny: You mean the ladies ?

Frank: Yes

Jenny: His trust in people and personnel relationships has been destroye

Frank: That’s a big word Jenny

Jenny: what they did to him at the 1208 Meagher residence is big

Frank: How so ?

Jenny: They ‘painted’ a picture of ‘who he wasn’t’ and spread that word around town. Then ‘stopped’ anyone from coming into him to ‘validate’ there picture of him

Frank: Did he know that at the time ?

Jenny: Oh yes

Frank: How so ?

Jenny: Well there’s this guy who he call’s Tony’s Son who was on the Movie X-Man and also is a RODEO Clown as seen in the Big Sky Journal

Frank: And

Jenny: One day The Man looked out of his house at 1208 Meagher and saw him delivering some construction materials for Kneyon Noble and as he was driving by in his truck he looked up at The Man on his porch

Frank: Seems harmless

Jenny: Well, according to The Man what he said wasn’t

Frank: What did he say ?

Jenny: Looking up at The Man he said; ‘ Yea, I see him. And he will be our Secret Agent and not there’s after this ‘ and smiled

Frank: So what did The Man do ?

Jenny: Kept that to himself and ‘realized’ they are trying to TRAP ME and left

Don: Well I hate to interrupt you two Love Birds but the officials are trying to straighten this whole mess out

Howard: We see Herman GOI Edwards on the phone to the officials booth and now someone is calling into The Man’s booth and he’s standing in the Booth looking down at Naomi ‘having a Blonde moment’ Campbell and back at HBH

Don: It seems the Officials ‘don’t have a means’ to validate the Hair Authenticity of the player. I wonder if anyone has any idea of a solution ?

Howard: The Man just raised his hand when you asked that question

Don: What question

Howard: If anyone has any idea of a solutio

Don: I see, The Man did just raise his hand again

Howard: Now he’s busy writing something on a big piece of cardboard

Don: We’ll have to see what he is writing

Frank: Well there going to let Naomi ‘having a Blonde moment’ Campbell line up on the Blondes side of the field and we’ve been given the go ahead by the officials, here’s Herma

GOI: We have an Inadvertent Flag on the Field, please reset the clock to it’s original position with 12:00 mins left in the 2^nd Quarter

Howard: Going back on the field is HAMS Klum an HABM Campbel on the Defense of the Blondes

Don: The brunette’s are staying with the same formation as before even with the changes made with the Blondes

Howard: The Brunette’s are lining up to go with a trip’s Left offensive set up with WW Stared at Ridge Ruea, T Brunette and L Lipgloss on the left side and Littlest N is lining up as in a slot position on the right side of the field with a single back in the game Beyonce the Ridiculous

Frank: Going in motion with RB Bozeman over center is WW Stared at Ridge Ruea coming back towards center and here’s the snap

Don: Crossing patterns on the left side with T Brunette and L Lipgloss and T Brunette is open in the middle for a moment and the Safety HMAS Klum is there

Frank: Going for the corner is WW Stared at Ridge Ruea and the throw is there but so is Naomi HABM Campbell and the ball is tipped

Don: Littlest N was wide open at the 1 yard line on the right side and they threw over her head to WW Stared at Ridge Ruea

Frank: It almost looked like the ball was going to be thrown to her as she went up in the air but the ball was out of reach

Howard: So we have an incomplete pass on 1^st down bringing up a 2^nd and goal

Frank: Jenny are you there ?

Jenny: Yes Frank

Frank: Did you ever get a look at what The Man was writing on the piece of cardboard ?

Jenny: Well, yes I did

Frank: What did it say ?

Jenny: Well, it wasn’t finished. But it said something like; ‘ There all Pink in the ‘ and then someone busted in the room and took it from him

Frank: What ?

Jenny: they took the piece of cardboard and the marker

Frank: Why ?

Jenny: They don’t want him to communicate to anyone his thoughts

Frank: Why ?

Jenny: It’s obvious, they want to kill him

Frank: We’ll be right back

The Player So Named ‘BRINK’ displaying the same ‘Rock in Shoe’ technique as she did in the game.

Coach ‘Hides Behind Hair’

Quarter Back Coach for the Brunettes: Halle ‘the ridiculous’ Berry

Shannon (I’ll Show You How to Kiss) Tweed, Strength Coach for the Blondes

Hugh ( I did it right ) Hefner / Private Investor at Large

Maria (baby oil on the thigh’s was a nice touch) Bartiromo

Ted ‘Smoking Gun’ Turner – Large Private Investor ‘ At Large ‘

WW Wig-Out before Season Started

Rihanna ‘ the ridiculous ‘ being Ridiculous in a Pool without Cris

Claudia ‘Throwing Hair Like There’s No Tomorrow – Throwing Cleavage” Schiffer

Heather ‘ Put a Lip Lock on her Lower Half ‘Locklear (MILF in Stress)

Daniela ‘ Woman who Stared at The Ridge ‘ – Then teased on ESPN ‘ Ruha ‘ who-a I-a would-a Do-a ‘

Tyra ‘doing the smile’ Banks

Heidi 'the ridiclous' Klum

Heidi ‘ making a statement ‘ Klum making a statement for The Man

Oprah ‘ I can’t stop laughing’ Winfrey

Naomi ‘having a Blonde moment’ Campbell

Courteney ‘I’ve been feeling left out’ Cox

HBH (hides behind hair’s) Idea of a way to Calm down Keith Grant (The Man)

Selena ‘I started the Brunette Revolution’ Ward

And it all started in Alabama

Sophia ‘I’ll show you what an Italian Hottie Is’ Milos (drafted on 06/15/2013 per the Fucking Man) ‘ even Kelse say’s ‘ He’s the Fucking Man ‘

Kerry ‘White House Down’ Washington (ridiculous)

Patriot Act architect cries foul on NSA program, but skipped briefings

Adam Serwer, @adamserwer

11:58 PM on 06/14/2013

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., (Photo By Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call).

The self-identified “author of the Patriot Act” has had a swift change of heart on surveillance.

In a letter to Attorney-General Eric Holder last week, Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin asked: “How could the phone records of so many innocent Americans be relevant to an authorized investigation as required by the Act?” In a separate newspaper column, Sensenbrenner went further, claiming the administration was abusing the law.

Maybe Sensenbrenner wouldn’t have been as surprised, had he attended classified briefings on the National Security Agency’s program over the last three years.

Two letters from the leadership of Senate intelligence committee in 2010 and 2011 obtained by MSNBC show that a series of closed-door briefings and reports on the Patriot Act were made available to lawmakers from both houses. A senior Obama administration official sent MSNBC a list showing at least six classified briefings or meetings on the Patriot Act between 2009 and 2011. And a former Justice department official who participated in the briefings said they offered specifics on the exact issues that Sensenbrenner claims were withheld.

Asked whether his boss had attended any of those sessions during that period, Sensenbrenner spokesperson Ben Miller said the congressman “does not want to be limited by the restraints of confidentiality. Therefore, he believes in an open dialogue by which legislative solutions can be constructed and passed into law before the public.” Miller said Sensenbrenner had “attended confidential briefings in the past,” but didn’t say how many, which ones, or whether any dealt directly with the “sensitive” application of section 215.

Miller cited a comment from Peter Hoekstra, the former Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, who said lawmakers who attend the briefings learn “a little more than what has been reported in the news.”

Since details of the NSA surveillance program came to light in newspaper articles in The Guardian and The Washington Post, a number of members of Congress have complained that they were not briefed. Some, it turns out, left briefings early or never showed up.

Sensenbrenner, who has been among the most insistent and aggressive in his claims that he was not informed, didn’t attend at all. Yet his complaints carry particular weight because he is a longtime presence on the House judiciary committee and shepherded the Patriot Act into law in 2001 as chair of the committee.

In the last week, Sensenbrenner has said he was so troubled with the way section 215 of the Patriot Act has been used by the Obama administration that he has threatened not to renew that section when it expires in 2015.

Section 215 is at the heart of one of the documents that has come to light. That document is a highly classified order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court approving a request from the FBI, on behalf of the NSA, for communications records of millions of Verizon customers.

The order cited section 215 of the Patriot Act, which gives the government the authority to request records that are “relevant to a terrorism investigation.” Sensenbrenner claims he never imagined it would be used so broadly, and that the Obama administration misled Congress about how it was being used.

“While some members of Congress were briefed, particularly those on the intelligence committees, most, including myself, were not,” Sensenbrenner wrote in a column for The Guardian newspaper. Sensenbrenner did not disclose, as his spokesperson did for this story, that he chooses not to attend the briefings.

In his letter to Holder, Sensenbrenner was more specific, accusing Todd Hinnen, the former justice department official who led several briefings and also testified on section 215 in 2011, of misleading the committee. In his letter, Sensenbrenner quoted Hinnen’s testimony like this:

“Section 215 has been used to obtain driver’s license records, hotel records, car rental records, apartment leasing records, credit card records, and the like. It has never been used against a library to obtain circulation records. . . On average, we seek and obtain Section 215 orders less than 40 times per year.”

Then, Sensenbrenner wrote, “The Department’s testimony left the committee with the impression that the administration was using the business records provision sparingly and for specific materials. The recently released FISA order, however, could not have been drafted more broadly.” Marcy Wheeler, who writes at EmptyWheel.net, first noticed that the ellipsis omitted a key sentence from Hinnen’s testimony, which was that “Some orders have also been used to support important and highly sensitive intelligence collection operations, on which this committee and others have been separately briefed.”

Until now, it was difficult to know what information was shared with lawmakers or staff during those briefings. “There are laws on the books that define what is the standard for notifying Congress on matters of national security,” says Vicki Divoll, a former general counsel for the Senate intelligence committee and former assistant general counsel for the CIA. “There’s a lot of wiggle room in those standards, and depending on the issue and depending on the administration, how they wiggle that room can vary tremendously.”

But in an interview, Hinnen said he personally briefed lawmakers on the issue. He specifically recalled informing them on the use of section 215 to collect customer records in the manner described in the leaked FISA court order.

“The Department of Justice and the intelligence community briefed Congress extensively on the sensitive use of the business records authority beginning in early 2009,” says Hinnen. “We also made available to all members of Congress on several occasions documents for review and briefers to answer questions regarding the sensitive use of the business records provision.” During a press conference last week, Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein said that the use of section 215 for bulk collection of communications data went back at least “seven years.” That would date back to just after Sensenbrenner helped renew parts of the Patriot Act—including section 215—in 2006.

Asked why Sensenbrenner’s letter omitted Hinnen’s reference to classified briefings, Miller said, “There was no intent to hide the fact that the department briefed the committee,” adding that “in 2011, Congress was given the impression that Section 215 was being used sparingly. The omission of that content does not alter that perception.”

Civil liberties groups have agreed with the critique that simply stating the volume of requests obscured just how much information the administration was collecting. But other legislators, including Democratic Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado gave specific warnings about the Patriot Act that foreshadowed the recent disclosures, suggesting that if Sensenbrenner had attended the briefings he would have known what was happening.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who is not on the intelligence or judiciary committees, pushed legislation last year to declassify secret court opinions that interpret the scope of the government’s surveillance powers—which would likely include section 215.

Earlier this week, word leaked to Politico and Buzzfeed that Merkley, a prominent critic of the Obama administration on civil liberties, had skipped a classified briefing on PRISM, a tool the NSA uses to monitor the communications records of users of online services like Facebook, in order to make a television appearance. Recently, Merkley had reintroduced his legislation seeking to compel further disclosure on how broadly secret court opinions have interpreted the Patriot Act.

“The only question is how to move forward and rein in this program, and rein it in immediately,” says Michelle Richardson of the ACLU. “Congress can’t allow this to continue for the next two years before the next scheduled sunset.”

Miller said Sensenbrenner believes “legislation may be needed to amend section 215 before it comes up for reauthorization in 2015.” If Sensenbrenner does introduce legislation to curb section 215, he’ll be following his own advice. “Good oversight is done by congressional leadership, not by sunsets,” Sensenbrenner said in 2005 as the Patriot Act was reauthorized for the first time. Just imagine if he had attended the briefings in the first place.

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Patriot Act architect cries foul on NSA program, but skipped briefings

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Here’s the Glitch and an ‘outtake’:

And here’s TRUTHABOUTTHECIA.ORG ‘S RESPONSE:

I knows Of this ‘confidentiality agreement’ and I signed a document ‘only’ on providing video and audio monitoring on my Business which was the ‘worst thing I ever did’ in my life.

BUT:

‘ I DID NOT SIGN A CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT WITH ANYONE’ in the F.B.I. And the C.I.A. on ‘anything’ !

Period = ‘so were freewheeling’

And as a consequence of their Bad Management of the SOURCE: Gallatin

I have been kept out and away from my Children, Loved One’s, Ms. Lili Stiff and Kelse for 574 Days including this Father’s Day and there all in town !

And Because of:

My Son-in-law’s Murder in Action
Trying to Frame Me at 1208 Meagher, Bozeman, Montana
Illegal Funding from the Department of Justice for the Search for Weapon’s of Mass Destruction
Killing any and all relationship’s I have had with Principals in the Process Business including Elis and Spriano
The Orders to Iran
9 Months’ Delay on a Question on the last order to Iran
The ‘extended investigation’ of Keith Grant & Grant Marketing Group
Benghazi and the fact that ‘I Called the Shot’ to a Delta Force Operator, and I knew that when I saw the people from Benghazi. That I had seen ‘ 3 of the 4′ in Bozeman
And not allowing Mr. Happy to be Happy again

I went Public on the C.I.A.

Keith Grant

TRUTHABOUTTHECIA.ORG

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Time to re-evaluate U.S-Pakistan relationship (comments below)

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(Day 574 ! – In the Hostage Situation of the Murder In Action of Jacob Tate and day 127 of a Sanctioned War ) ‘currently on the road – in Bozeman, MT.’ !