Obama says he'll veto the Intelligence Authorization if ends the dysfunctional Gang of Eight briefing system.

The House Intelligence Committee tells DOD to stop conducting intelligence without oversight. And they threaten to LEGISLATE if DOD doesn't stop.

Outtake from Farenheit 9/11.No idea why, but this just makes me smile:The witnesses recently called by the special prosecutor, former government officials said, include the agency’s top officer in London and Porter J. Goss, who was C.I.A. director when the tapes were destroyed in November 2005. Destruction of evidence is not something you should just forgive and forget.

The FISCR has said that classified procedures are the only thing that keeps the warrantless wiretap program legal under the Fourth Amendment. But DNI Dennis Blair's spokesperson says those procedures don't work.

Leon Panetta admits he's protecting the identities of contractors.

In spite of the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear to the rest of the media that Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi agree that they were not briefed that the CIA had already been torturing prisoners in September 2002, the WaPo has decided to double down on deliberately misreading events.

The purpose of a military intelligence briefing is to present the best assessment of current threats to and opportunities for the US military as it works to protect the nation. Why did the Rumsfeld DOD feel the need to dress their briefings up in religion for the commander in chief?

The CIA and SSCI disagree about key details on Senate torture briefings. So why isn't Pat Roberts clarifying the issue?

Something stinks about Porter Goss' claim to have stood against torture in December 2005: Robert Grenier, head of Counterterrorism, was fired a month later for being insufficiently pro-torture.

In January Amy Gooman's guest Allan Nairn described to Democracy Now's audience how in 1999 Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama's Intel Czar pick, had repeatedly supported Indonesian generals commanding Indonesian death squads in Timor, rather than obey his Commander-In-Chief's lawful orders to tell our client generals in the Indonesian military to shut down their death squads. Today the NY Times reports that last Thursday, as Obama released the torture memos and his Adminstration told us the torture failed to produce useful results, Admiral Blair told the intel community the exact opposite. Who does Dennis Blair serve - America's elected leaders, or the torture and death squad operatives?