From the Ohio Green Party website:
I’m calling upon my republican and democrat opponents in the 12th Congressional District to join me in a demand I originally made in early March for the President to fire both CIA Director Brennan and DNI Clapper for their repeated criminal and unconstitutional misconduct. Supporting the constitution and the rule of law used to be a bipartisan issue. Is the contrary now true–I hope not.
The CIA is out of control. The spy agency has admitted to conducting a covert hacking and file destruction operation against the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee that was investigating allegations of prior illegal CIA acts. The CIA’s conduct constitutes a blatant and unacceptable act of intimidation against the critical civilian oversight of its operations. As CIA Director Brennan has confessed to hacking the Senate Oversight Committee computers, probable cause exists to believe the CIA has engaged in criminal and unconstitutional attacks on the very core of our representative government. This is unacceptable.
President Obama should decisively address this constitutional crisis by firing both CIA Director Brennan and Brennan’s boss, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Security clearances for both men should be revoked. The president should also immediately endorse a robust Justice Department investigation, publicly granting that agency complete authority to pursue all leads wherever they go. The CIA’s attack on the Senate and the Constitution is an attack on democracy that cannot, and must not, be tolerated.
In addition to directing this black bag job against the Senate Oversight Committee, Brennan is known for his aggressive promotion of illegal torture under the Bush administration. DNI’s James Clapper, who as Brennan’s boss knew or should have known of the CIA’s attack on the Senate computers, previously made his disregard of the rule of law known when he admitted to falsely telling a Congressional committee in March 2013 that the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans. A crime committed with impunity up to now.
President Obama needs to decide who controls America’s spy agencies—the people via the President and Congressional oversight, or the “free from oversight” unelected directors of those spy agencies. The integrity of the American political system is at stake.
http://www.hartforcongress.com/hart-calls-for-obama-to-fire-cia-director/
I find the expectation of justice in modern politics to be innocent and futile. The majority of Americans don’t even care.
I applaud the stance and I think more candidates should sound off on it.
You are running for Congress. Promise that if elected you will file articles of impeachment against the fellow and his superiors.
MHW, exactly!
Abolish the CIA and the NSA. If the Justice Department cannot or will not investigate the issues related to the possible criminal activities of the CIA & NSA then a special prosecutor needs to be appointed to do the job.