LOL! FBI Wants Senators To Take Polygraph Over Iraq Plans Leaks

[Venus]

This is hilarious:

FBI Leak Probe Irks Lawmakers
Many Spurn Polygraph Requests On Issue of NSA's 9/11 Intercept


By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 2, 2002; Page A01

FBI agents have questioned nearly all 37 members of the Senate and House intelligence committees and have asked many if they would be willing to submit to lie detector tests as part of a broad investigation into leaks of classified information related to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to officials involved in the inquiry.

Most of the lawmakers have told the FBI they would refuse a polygraph, citing the constitutional separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of government and the unreliability of the exam, those involved in the inquiry said.

Although the chairmen of the intelligence committees, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), asked the FBI to conduct the inquiry, its unprecedented scale has angered some lawmakers, according to people close to the investigation. The lawmakers are unhappy that the FBI, an agency they oversee, is investigating them.

In addition to committee members, FBI agents have questioned 60 congressional staff members and officials at the CIA, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency. They are trying to find the source of news stories that quoted Arabic communications making vague references to an impending attack on the United States, which were intercepted by the NSA on Sept. 10 but not translated until Sept. 12.


<u>LOL at the rest of it here</u> (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33821-2002Aug1.html)

[DesertFox]

"Irked"? That they should be expected to comply with the law (and common sense) as much as anybody else?

You're right, Venus: LOL.

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[Warlady]

Make a list of those who decline to take the volunatary lie detector test and don't give them any more sensitive information.

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Notice how fast they turn to the protection of the Constitution they want to trash!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warlady:
Make a list of those who decline to take the volunatary lie detector test and don't give them any more sensitive information.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I agree completely. It's time to get a DCI with some cajones, who will make the Intelligence Committees pay if leaks happen.

[Warlady]

I disagree with their separation of powers claim. The head of the intelligence commmittee requested the investigation. To not cooperate with the FBI is counterproductive. The Senate is not above the law.

[DesertFox]

<font color=green>This has nothing to do with separation of powers, which in this context would mean Congress is beyond the reach of police enforcing the law Congress instituted.</font>

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[Warlady]

Clancy, what's a DCI?

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warlady:
Clancy, what's a DCI?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Director of Central Intelligence - the guy who runs the CIA and, who is the top dog in the intelligence community (well, at least legally, although the NSA, DIA, and other intelligence organizations still operate on their own for the most part).

My pick for Tenet's replacement (if the rumors reported by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough are true) would be Ollie North. I'd like to see a dark genius in the mold of Bill Casey there.

[Suzie]

Does that mean they are going to make Robert Byrd do this? I didn't think anybody could make Robert Byrd do any thing. One would hope he would volunteer to go first to lead by example, but I won't hold my breath. images/icons/rolleyes.gif If they find out who has the loose lips they ought to shoot them.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warlady:
The Senate is not above the law.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Want to bet?? Teddy's still there, the Torch is still there!!

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This statement from the article reference is totally true. ""Ranit Schmelzer, spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), said Daschle had "grave concerns about the congressional separation of powers issues raised by having one branch of government asking to polygraph employees of another branch.""

All branches of the Government have been subject to and many have taken polygraph test. I know this for a fact except for I am not sure of anyone from the President and immediate staff nor the Supreme Court.

When I was an Investigator in the Army many of the DAC's, Military, contractual persons, were subject to polygraph test. We receivd our polygraph machines around '60 or '61 and they didn't gather dust. Though not legally admissable as evidence in a court of law, they were and I ma sure still a very useful investigative tool.

Daschle is blowing Smoke. He should have been around durng the McCarthy era.

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He!! yeah, watch the worms squirm baby!

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Dano

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tacitus:
Want to bet?? Teddy's still there, the Torch is still there!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

But how did Hillary get there???? images/icons/mad.gif

[oracle]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Venus:
Most of the lawmakers have told the FBI they would refuse a polygraph, citing the constitutional separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of government and the unreliability of the exam, those involved in the inquiry said.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


If this is valid, then Congress doesn't have the power to investigate the FBI.

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i simcerely hope there is a hanging in store for the ones who did the leaking of military information. They committed treason!

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[Warlady]

It was the head of the Senate intelligence committee who requested the FBI investigate the leaks. Was that just for show?

[Radical-Conservative]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warlady:
It was the head of the Senate intelligence committee who requested the FBI investigate the leaks. Was that just for show?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Maybe he thought that the FBI wouldnt like the idea