Turn over any blanket authority to anyone because we can never We are going to fix anything we had better do it now before we The president could veto such legislation and attack members ofĬongress for being weak on national security. Should Congress try in the future to legislate a change, The greatest danger was that, once created, the CIA would be hard Manipulate elections, or could undermine political opponents. The president could use the CIA to spy on Congress, could secretly The power of the proposed CIA or its director could go unchecked: Law, it was easy to imagine any number of situations in which Was stymied: "It is not no sir." Without protections for domestic liberties written into the Have it." Forrestal argued that the CIA's authority wouldīe "limited definitely to purposes outside this country."īut when asked a key question-"Is that stated in the law?"-Forrestal Just allowing him to have a Gestapo of his own if he wants to
Under any president, and I do not care what his name may be, and Here, in the United States, any particular central policy agency I presume he could do so, could he not?" "No, I do not assume he could," Forrestal replied. decide he wants to go into my income tax reports, "Howįar does this central intelligence agency go in its authorityĪnd scope?" He posed a hypothetical question: "Should Over citizens of the United States," Brown remarked. Necessary, any one individual or any one group with all-out power "IĪm not sure that I want to trust, unless it is just absolutely The Navy James Forrestal, a key advocate of the plan. In open hearings, Brown confronted Secretary of The seemingly unlimited power of the proposed director of Central Hoffman's concerns were shared by a fellow Midwestern conservative Hoffman feared this open-ended authority. National Security Council may from time to time direct." Related to intelligence affecting the national security as the Intelligence, and to perform "other functions and duties To make recommendations for the coordination of spying, to disseminate The National Security Council in matters concerning intelligence, The more Hoffman studied the legislation, Security Act, and with Hoffman's support it was expected to sail Norstad and Sherman's plan was incorporated in the National Would function as a neutral repository of military intelligence. Matters at the White House and, most important, a Central IntelligenceĪgency, independent of both the Pentagon and the White House, Would coordinate the conduct of foreign affairs and national security Military planning at the Pentagon a National Security Council War was over, Army Major General Lauris Norstad and Navy ViceĪdmiral Forrest Sherman laid out a plan for the consolidation
Intelligence authority was at least partly to blame. Officials, and it was generally agreed that the absence of a centralized Of Pearl Harbor in I94I had profoundly shaken American intelligence On Government Operations, agreed to introduce the legislation Indeed, Hoffman,Ī conservative Michigan Republican who chaired the House Committee Security Act of I947 was exceedingly positive. The CIA and the Origins of the Freedom of Information Act Congressman Clare E. Bextra is not a morphine sulphate product, which suggests that the feds are particularly annoyed at companies that sell addictive painkillers.CIA & Freedom of Information Act / The Cover-up Begins / You Expose Us, We Spy on You excerpted from the book Secrets The CIA's War at Home CIA & Freedom of Information Act The Cover-up Begins You Expose Us, We Spy on You excerpted from the book Secrets The CIA's War at Home by Angus Mackenzie University of California Press, 1997, paper p9 When Pfizer (PFE) settled with the DOJ over its painkiller Bextra, there was no HHS ban in the deal. The Purdue execs are currently litigating to get their privileges back. Such bans are career suicide - virtually all drug companies do business with the government. OIG-HHS expressly reserves all rights to institute, direct, or to maintain any administrative action seeking exclusion against Alpharma and/or King, and/or their officers, directors, and employees, from Medicare, Medicaid, and all other Federal health care programs. Another shoe may drop on a mysterious, unnamed fifth suspect, according to papers filed by the DOJ in the case.Īnd, in the DOJ's settlement filing, there's specific language insisting that the Office of the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services department may still boot Alpharma/King execs from the drug business, in just the same way it did to the top brass of Purdue Pharma after they were convicted of mismarketing Oxycontin: Also, the deal between King Pharmaceuticals (KG) (which owns Alpharma), three partner companies, and the Department of Justice over the mismarketing of Kadian is not the end of the story.
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