Erik Guerra

Social Movements

MW 3:30-4:45 P.M.

March 30, 2014

Legal architect of CIA secret prisons.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/28/a_debate_on_torture_legal_architect

Its is said that the CIA has been accused of secretly removing classified documents from the staff of Dianne Feinstein and from their computers. This effort is to undermine their panel report. Feinstein explains that if the senate can declassify the report it will be able to ensure that an unamerican brutal program of detention and deterrogation will never again be considered or permitted. The CIA has countered by filing a crimes report to the department of justice accusing senate staffers of illegaly accesing CIA documents. The CIA fully denies hacking into the senates computers and describe it as being far from the truth. John Rizzo a legal architect and former CIA counsel speaks about the clash between the CIA and the senate intelligence. He goes on to say that he believes the report should be declassified. He also says that fifty million dollars of tax payers money have been spent on it. Even though along side of the perfomance of the CIA will be exposed John Rizzo's performance will be exposed he still believes that it should come out.

Why Did FBI Monitor Occupy Houston, and Then Hide Sniper Plot Against Protest Leaders?

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/25/why_did_fbi_monitor_occupy_houston

It was said that the FBI had knowledge of and assassination plot against leaders of occupy Houston. It was also said that the FBI failed to share this information. A memo stated that as of October there were plans to attack protesters in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. Ryan Shapiro says that the judge's ruling is terrific. The FBI found seventeen pages regarding this event but only provided five because of threat to national security. It was supposedly an investigation of terrorism during the Houston occupy. There were no evidence of this at all. Ryan Shapiro explains that these words were just said and not backed up. FBI is required to supply information to prove their statements. This can be done secretly between the FBI and the judge if this case is really national security threatening. The FBI was most interested in the peaceful protesters than the supposed terrorists that were threatening to kill them.  I found both of these videos very interesting due to their controversy.