H.R. Bill 3439 Calls For CIA To Be Embedded In Local Police Depts.

[Oilwellian]

SEC. 4. DETAIL PROGRAM FOR STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 403a et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

`DETAIL OF EMPLOYEES WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES

`SEC. 23. (a) DETAIL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law--

`(1) upon request of the head of State or local law enforcement agency, the Director of Central Intelligence may detail any employee within the Central Intelligence Agency to that State or local law enforcement agency on a nonreimbursable basis; and

`(2) subject to the approval of the Director of Central Intelligence, the head of a State or local law enforcement agency may detail any employee of that State or local law enforcement agency to the Central Intelligence Agency on a reimbursable basis.

`(b) PERIOD OF DETAIL- Details shall be for such periods as are agreed to between the Director and the head of the State or local agency.

`(c) BENEFITS, ALLOWANCES, TRAVEL, INCENTIVES- An employee detailed under subsection (a) may be authorized any benefit, allowance, travel, or incentive otherwise provided to enhance staffing by the organization from which the employee is detailed.

`(d) APPROPRIATIONS- (1) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

`(2) Details under subsection (a) are subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose.'.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.3439:

Semi-colon must be used in link...won't work otherwise.

[Beetwasher]

1. Incredible

The CIA is not supposed to be used domestically...

[salin]

2. my exact thought

domestic spying? Thought that was the perview of the FBI. Now we are going to give both the authority to do this? Sheez. No offense but for all of the bluster of Rush painting anything liberal as "communism"... this and the push for Patriot2 certainly recalls the East German Stassi (sp?)

[Mari333]

3. Big Brother.

More of the same Bullshit.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Wha?! Huh??!!

CIA used for DOMESTIC SPYING?!?! :wtf:

Time to write Rep. Doggett again (while he's still my Rep. that is).

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. OMG......CIA is NOT a domestic agency....this is outrageous

this is insane!

[smiley_glad_hands]

6. Welcome Mr. Orwell

It is as you said would become.

[proud patriot]

7. Has Habius Corpus been officially scrapped ?

:mad:

[dae]

8. Man, that worries me, I work for the local Sheriffs Office and it would be

very uncomfortable knoing a spook was amongst us.:scared:

[Sinistrous]

9. IIRC, placing agents with local law enforcement agencies

was done by the Gestapo in the Nazi era.

Well, * WAS a history major. Apparently he learned something.

[Taeger]

10. Ruining separation of Police Enforcement

Own of the great things about local multi-jurisdictional police enforcement is that it's difficult to control. The County Sheriff could be a Democrat and the local Mayor a Republican. Then you have State cops.

The whole thing works to make tyranny more difficult. There are just too many independent enforcement officials who report to the local citizenry instead of to Washington.

I would say that this bill is unconstitutional. It gets the CIA involved into enforcement of local laws. It's horse-shit!!!!!

If they want to be serious, they could delegate certain authorities to state police departments. By delegation, I mean empowerment. For example, state police could be empowered to track down illegal aliens who have overstayed their Visas. The level of enforcement would be up to the state in question.

But no federal agency has any business WHATSOEVER being involved in municipal and county (or parish) police departments.

[Jose Diablo]

11. The cancer in the CIA is metastasizing n/t