Kill Box: A Post-Apocalyptic Conspiracy Thriller (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 2)
Steven Konkoly
Chapter 41
Ragan didn't want to think about it. Not that she had the option. She'd hear Boyd's screams for the rest of her days. They all would. His death had been completely unexpected, and entirely avoidable - if Control had bothered to give them any indication of the true problem inside the quarantine zone. But they hadn't.
She had been warned to avoid contact with law enforcement or military patrols, and to steer clear of quarantine boundary checkpoints. Control clearly didn't want anyone questioning their purpose or mission inside the quarantine zone. Maybe that should have been enough of a warning. Then again, how could she have guessed what was truly happening inside the city? Even now Ragan barely believed it, and she'd witnessed something unthinkable.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/schiff-accuses-top-intel-official-001223488.html
Yahoo! News
Schiff accuses top intel official of illegally withholding 'urgent' whistleblower complaint
Politico September 13, 2019
The nation's top intelligence official is illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint, possibly to protect President Donald Trump or senior White House officials, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff alleged Friday.
Schiff issued a subpoena for the complaint, accusing acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire of taking extraordinary steps to withhold the complaint from Congress, even after the intel community's inspector general characterized the complaint as credible and of "urgent concern."
“A Director of National Intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower complaint that the [inspector general] determined to be credible and urgent from being provided to the congressional intelligence committees. Never," Schiff said in a statement. "This raises serious concerns about whether White House, Department of Justice or other executive branch officials are trying to prevent a legitimate whistleblower complaint from reaching its intended recipient, the Congress, in order to cover up serious misconduct."
Schiff indicated that he learned the matter involved "potentially privileged communications by persons outside the Intelligence Community," raising the specter that it is "being withheld to protect the President or other Administration officials." In addition, Schiff slammed Maguire for consulting the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint "even though the statute does not provide you discretion to review, appeal, reverse, or countermand in any way the [inspector general's] independent determination, let alone to involve another entity within the Executive Branch."
"The Committee can only conclude, based on this remarkable confluence of factors, that the serious misconduct at issue involves the President of the United States and/or other senior White House or Administration officials," Schiff wrote in a letter to Maguire on Friday.
The initial whistleblower complaint was filed last month, and Schiff indicated that it was required by law to be shared with Congress nearly two weeks ago. His subpoena requires the information to be turned over by Sept. 17 or else he intends to compel Maguire to appear before Congress in a public hearing on Sept. 19.
Schiff said Maguire declined to confirm or deny whether the whistleblower's complaint relates to anything the Intelligence Committee is currently investigating or whether White House lawyers were involved in the decision-making about the complaint.
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IMDb
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Quotes
Zeus: Morning.
John McClane: Good morning.
Zeus: You having a nice day, sir? You feeling all right?
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1988 ( Ronald Reagan - Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate on the United States Military Strike in the Persian Gulf ) is 8204 days
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From 8/19/1960 ( the Soviet Union convicts and sentences United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers ) To 9/19/2019 ( ) is 21580 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/19/1995 ( premiere US film "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" ) is 10790 days
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act-1978-statement-signing-s-1566-into-law
The American Presidency Project
JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States: 1977 ‐ 1981
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Statement on Signing S. 1566 Into Law.
October 25, 1978
I am pleased to sign into law today the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. As I said a year and a half ago at the beginning of the process that produced this bill, "one of the most difficult tasks in a free society like our own is the correlation between adequate intelligence to guarantee our Nation's security on the one hand, and the preservation of basic human rights on the other."
This is a difficult balance to strike, but the act I am signing today strikes it. It sacrifices neither our security nor our civil liberties. And it assures that those who serve this country in intelligence positions will have the affirmation of Congress that their activities are lawful.
In working on this bill, the Congress dealt skillfully with sensitive issues. The result shows our country benefits when the legislative and executive branches of Government work together toward a common goal.
The bill requires, for the first time, a prior judicial warrant for all electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purposes in the United States in which communications of U.S. persons might be intercepted. It clarifies the Executive's authority to gather foreign intelligence by electronic surveillance in the United States. It will remove any doubt about the legality of those surveillances which are conducted to protect our country against espionage and international terrorism. It will assure FBI field agents and others involved in intelligence collection that their acts are authorized by statute and, if a U.S. person's communications are concerned, by a court order. And it will protect the privacy of the American people.
In short, the act helps to solidify the relationship of trust between the American people and their Government. It provides a basis for the trust of the American people in the fact that the activities of their intelligence agencies are both effective and lawful. It provides enough secrecy to ensure that intelligence relating to national security can be securely acquired, while permitting review by the courts and Congress to safeguard the rights of Americans and others.
This legislation is the first long step toward the goal of establishing statutory charters for our intelligence agencies. I am committed to that goal, and my administration will work with the Congress to achieve it. Many people played important roles in securing passage of this bill.
I am convinced that the bill would not have passed without the leadership of Attorney General Bell; the personal commitment of the Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Turner; and the work of Admiral Inman of the National Security Agency and Directors Webster and Kelley of the FBI. I extend my personal appreciation to these men and their staffs.
My administration's bill was based on some fine work during the Ford administration under the leadership of Attorney General Levi. His contribution to this legislation was substantial, illustrating the bipartisan nature of this process.
There was strong, effective, and bipartisan leadership in the Congress as well. I particularly want to commend Senators Kennedy, Bayh, and Garn for helping to guide this bill to overwhelming approval in the Senate. Chairman Boland and Congressman Morgan Murphy of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman Rodino and Congressman Kastenmeier of the House Judiciary Committee undertook the hard work of moving the bill through the House. And, once again, I am indebted to the efforts of Speaker O'Neill and Majority Leader Wright.
I wish as well to express my appreciation to the Vice President, who long supported this foreign intelligence reform in the Senate and who assured the wholehearted commitment of the executive branch to this important legislation.
I have said so often, one of the central goals of my administration is to restore the confidence of the American people in their governmental institutions. This act takes us one more step down that road.
Note: As enacted, S. 1566 is Public Law 95511, approved October 25.
Jimmy Carter, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Statement on Signing S. 1566 Into Law.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 07:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 09/17/2019
