Key House chairman backs secret anti-terrorism center

[hedda_foil]

A friend forwarded this to me from a government contracting bulleting she gets.

Key House chairman backs secret anti-terrorism center
By William New, National Journal's Technology Daily

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday said he backs the creation of an anti-terrorism center beyond the reach of public scrutiny.
"There are certain dark secrets we have to protect," Harold Rogers, R-Ky., told a homeland security conference sponsored by Equity International. The Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) established earlier this year by presidential order "is designed to do ... what I am saying."

TTIC, a coordinated effort of intelligence agencies and the Homeland Security Department, was placed under the CIA's secret "black" budget. That makes access to operation of the center "very, very limited," Rogers said, and gives oversight to the House Intelligence Committee. "It should be that way for reasons I cannot discuss with you," he said. "But use of that information and the routes it travels out of the TTIC is fair game, so we will continue to oversee it."

Full story: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1003/100803td1.htm

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1. "There are certain dark secrets we have to protect,"

Im sure there are...


evil bastards

[hedda_foil]

2. kick

[Donna Zen]

3. KY Republican

To Senator Rogers:

I am writing with a few questions for you. Given the GOP's track record, how long will it be before someone in your party "outs" an agent of the TTIC? I mean isn't the way it goes; the deeper the cover, the greater the polical gain?

Also, wouldn't the money for this project be better used to educate the citizens of your state? A state that elected you to protect their Constitutional freedoms and where 65% of its citizens believe "bush is doing a good job" would seem to be in dire need of overt information.

Signed

America is waiting for an answer