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Committee.
 
          But the White House said it would veto the entire bill
          over that provision. In a written statement, it said
          the whistle-blower measure would usurp "the president's
          constitutional authority to protect national security
          and other privileged information."


National security means keeping Congress dumbed-down:

*   "Secret Pentagon Intelligence Unit is Disclosed"
*   By Raymond Bonner, The New York Times, May 11, 1983
*  
*   Because the Pentagon was dissatisfied with the intelligence it was getting
*   from the CIA, the new unit 'Army Intelligence Support Activity' was set up.
*  
*   It is suspected that the secret group was used to get around Congressional
*   limits of 55 military advisors in El Salvador.
*  
*   The Congressional intelligence committees "stumbled on" the unit's
*   existence after it was reported in an article in The Boston Globe.


The National Security Agency will even attack freedom of the press: never
forget that they were the lead agency trying to suppress "The Pentagon Papers".


Finally finishing.......


Parting shot #1...

*   The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*  
*   Infested by moles and potential defectors for more than twelve of its
*   first fifteen years, NSA managed the distinction of not only becoming
*   the most secretive and most hidden member of America's growing
*   intelligence consortium, but also the most thoroughly penetrated.
*  
*  
*  
*   The NSA began a McCarthy-type purge, and dozens of NSA employees
*   suspected of homosexuality were forced to resign or were fi