http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=wizard-of-oz-the
Springfield! Springfield!
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Back where I come from we have men
who are called heroes,
Once a year they take their fortitude
out of mothballs...
...and parade it down the main street
of the city
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes
IMDb
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Quotes
Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?
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http://www.newsweek.com/revisiting-911-failures-98179
NEWSWEEK
Revisiting 9/11 Failures
BY MARK HOSENBALL 1/30/07 AT 7:00 PM
The Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA may be headed for a new confrontation over an old issue: why an internal report documenting the agency’s failures in the run up to the September 11 terror attacks is still being withheld from the public.
The report, prepared by the CIA’s inspector general, is the only major 9/11 government review that has still not been made publicly available.
When it was completed in August 2005, NEWSWEEK and other publications reported that it contained sharp criticisms of former CIA director George Tenet and other top agency officials for failing to address the threat posed by Al Qaeda, as well as other mistakes that might have prevented the attacks.
In a letter sent just this week, three panel members—including Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller and ranking Republican Christopher Bond—revived the issue and asked that an executive summary of the report be declassified “without delay” and released to the public.
The letter was addressed to outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, but Oregon’s Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden—who has made the issue a personal crusade—said he intends to press the new DNI designate, J. Michael McConnell, on the matter at his confirmation hearings Thursday.
And, Wyden added, he doesn’t intend to stop until the report gets released.
“I’m going to bulldog this until it gets out,” Wyden told NEWSWEEK. “The bottom line is that this is an extraordinary important perspective on one of the defining events of the country’s history. I do not believe there is a national-security case for keeping this under wraps.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/01/nation/na-spy1
Los Angeles Times
Bill Would Give Cover to Pentagon Spies in U.S.
In an effort to thwart domestic terror, some privacy protections would be rolled back.
October 01, 2005 Greg Miller Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Pentagon intelligence operatives would be allowed to collect information from U.S. citizens without revealing their status as government spies under legislation approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and publicly released this week.
The bill would end a long-standing requirement that military intelligence officers disclose their government ties when approaching an American citizen in the United States -- a law designed to protect Americans from domestic intelligence activities by the Defense Department.
The provision is one of several sections of the legislation that would roll back privacy-related protections as part of an effort to improve the ability of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect and prevent domestic terrorist plots. Another provision would make it easier for U.S. spy agencies to gain access to sensitive government records on citizens that are generally prohibited from being disseminated under privacy laws.
The changes are part of an intelligence authorization bill that calls for what officials described as a significant increase in funding for U.S. spy agencies; it would shift money away from controversial spy satellite programs that many lawmakers consider outdated and unnecessary.
Actual budget numbers are classified, but annual intelligence spending is said to exceed $40 billion. The authorization bill was approved by the Intelligence Committee in closed session last week, but the text of the legislation was not made public until Thursday, when the bill was filed with the full Senate.
Although the bill was endorsed unanimously by committee members, two Democrats expressed concerns with the privacy provisions in written comments attached to the legislation. Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Ron Wyden of Oregon said they considered the military intelligence provision a mistake. Pentagon operatives "should be required to tell United States citizens in the United States who are not suspected of any wrongdoing that they work for the government," the senators wrote.
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-leads-and-succeeds-in-110th-congress
RON WYDEN
SENATOR FOR OREGON
Increasing CIA Transparency: In passing H.R. 4 "Legislation Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007" Congress enacted a Wyden authored provision declassifying the total size of the national intelligence budget. In May 2007, the White House threatened to veto the 9/11 legislation if it included language making this top line number public. Wyden responded: "Public accountability should not take a back seat to this Administration's obsession with secrecy."
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 37
DYING FLAME
"Hold it right there, pal," Chavez said, emerging from the shadows.
"Who are you?" the man asked in surprise. Then his face told the tale. He was doing something he shouldn't. He knew it, and suddenly someone else did, too.
"I could ask you the same thing
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