Nomination of Dr. Morton H. Halperin to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, November 19, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 211 pages |
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Page 195 - Too many people have been spied upon by too many government agencies and too much information has been collected. The government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs...
Page 203 - When the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for more than thirty days, all motions to reconsider a vote upon a nomination which has been confirmed or rejected by the Senate, which shall be pending at the time of taking such adjournment or recess, shall fall ; and the Secretary shall return all such nominations to the President as confirmed or rejected by the Senate, as the...
Page 29 - He said that the United States "should explicitly surrender the right to intervene unilaterally in the internal affairs of other countries, by overt military means or by covert operations. Such self-restraint would bar interventions like those in Grenada and Panama, unless the United States first gained the explicit consent of the international community, acting through the Security Council or a regional organization.
Page 9 - STATEMENT OF HON. DAVID L. BOREN, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Senator BOREN. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 187 - To this end, the study is sponsored jointly by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SO/LIC) and the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (DOS/R).
Page 195 - Congress has failed to exercise sufficient oversight, seldom questioning the use to which its appropriations were being put. Most domestic intelligence issues have not reached the courts, and in those cases when they have reached the courts, the judiciary has been reluctant to grapple with them. Each of these points is briefly illustrated below, and covered in substantially greater detail in the following sections of the report.
Page 195 - Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity. Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory and vicious tactics have been employed—including...
Page 203 - President; and if the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for more than thirty days, all nominations pending and not finally acted upon at the time of taking such adjournment or recess shall be returned by the Secretary to the President, and shall not again be considered unless they shall again be made to the Senate by the President.
Page 195 - ... bugs," surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous — and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations — have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
Page 134 - I'm concerned, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck no matters how much it is otherwise sugar coated.