{"id":2204,"date":"2008-05-23T04:40:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2008-05-23T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:40:49","slug":"yoo-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/23\/yoo-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoo-holes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/coi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/intelligence.house.gov\/Media\/PDFS\/ReyesRelease050808.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE APPROVES FUNDING FOR INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS AND CRITICAL OVERSIGHT<\/strong><\/a>      <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Two provisions of H.R. 5959 will enhance reporting to the full Intelligence Committee on intelligence activities. First, the bill would make certain portions of the covert action budget contingent upon full reporting by intelligence agencies to the whole Committee, on all active covert action operations. Another provision gives the Committee control over Presidential attempts to limit information to only the Chairman and Ranking Member, and clarifies what must be reported to the full Committee.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Yesterday, in reviewing what&#8217;s known of the bizarre logic of John Yoo&#8217;s opinion about F.I.S.A., I was musing about how the F.I.S.A. would have needed to be written to block the President&#8217;s ability to ignore the Law [in Yoo&#8217;s estimation]. I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/exclusive-2\/\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"> What they&rsquo;re talking about is the <strong>F.I.S.A.<\/strong> law that sets up a special court to oversee wiretaps. It says:   <\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>&hellip; the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act\" title=\"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/a><\/strong> of 1978 shall be the <strong><u>exclusive means<\/u><\/strong> by which electronic surveillance &hellip; and the intercept of domestic [communications] may be conducted.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">That sounds pretty clear to most of us, yet the government has set up an N.S.A. Domestic Surveillance Program that operates without warrant from the F.I.S.A. Court.&nbsp; So how is that possible within the Law.&nbsp; The Yoo-ism quoted above is presumably how they purport to get around the Law. It says, &quot;<font color=\"#400040\"><strong>Unless Congress made a clear statement in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that it sought to restrict presidential authority to conduct warrantless searches in the national security area &#8211; which it has not &#8211; then the statute must be construed to avoid such a reading.<\/strong><\/font>&quot; <font color=\"#003366\"><strong>emptywheel <\/strong><\/font>uses the word &quot;hackery&quot; to describe this particular Yoo-ism. I would&rsquo;ve chosen something a bit more fecal. He&rsquo;s saying that &quot;exclusive&quot; [which to me means &quot;only&quot;] isn&rsquo;t clear enough. I suppose the Law would have to be written, <em>&quot;the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act\" title=\"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/a><\/strong> of 1978 shall be the <strong><u>exclusive means<\/u><\/strong> by which electronic surveillance &hellip; and the intercept of domestic [communications] may be conducted &#8211; including restricting presidential authority to conduct warrantless searches in the national security area.&quot;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">I was being facetious in suggesting how the law might be written. But now we read, &quot;<strong>Another provision gives the Committee control over Presidential attempts to limit information&#8230;<\/strong>&quot; So, I&#8217;m not so facetious after all. Here, the <strong>House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence<\/strong> is doing exactly what would be required to plug the Yoo-hole. From Steve Aftergood&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2008\/05\/hpsci_classification.html\"><strong>Secrecy News<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">&ldquo;The obligation to report to the committees is not negotiable,&rdquo; the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/congress\/2008_rpt\/hrpt110-665.html\">report<\/a><\/strong> declared. &ldquo;It is not an obligation that the President can ignore at his discretion. It is not an obligation that can be evaded by claiming that briefing the congressional intelligence committees will require other committees to be briefed. It is not an obligation that can be evaded by broad assertions of executive power.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Whatever it takes&#8230;&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE APPROVES FUNDING FOR INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS AND CRITICAL OVERSIGHT Two provisions of H.R. 5959 will enhance reporting to the full Intelligence Committee on intelligence activities. First, the bill would make certain portions of the covert action budget contingent upon full reporting by intelligence agencies to the whole Committee, on all active covert action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}