Aspen-Brown Commission organization
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Aspen-Brown Commission exposed
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“The commission offered the caveats that covert methods should be no more aggressive than needed. Oh, that's nice to know. You can do whatever you want as long as you can say it's needed. The commissioners elsewhere conceded criticism that t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 58:52
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Although Clinton gave Les Aspin a broad role in the review, the president's delays, he waited for months in making the selections, showed a reluctance to do anything. Aspin began to move on his own, finally starting the review process in Fe…
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Secretary of Defense in the Carter administration, the review became known as the Aspen Brown Commission. The group wrote its report by the due date and put out 150 pages of closely reasoned text plus appendixes. Readers gleaned the intelli…
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Aspen Brown advocated a new national agency. Yeah, because that's what we need, more bureaucracy. There would be plenty of text on guidance, space reconnaissance, technical collections, but the twin concerns of the initiators were virtually…
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In the final report, Aspen Brown acknowledged that covert action remained the most controversial activity, but recommended that the capability be maintained because you have to have it. The commissioners cited most of the witnesses as well …
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The commission offered the caveats that covert methods should be no more aggressive than needed. Oh, that's nice to know. You can do whatever you want as long as you can say it's needed. The commissioners elsewhere conceded criticism that t…
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Oh, okay. That's ridiculous. The two or three pages on this were dwarfed by the others devoted to organizational issues and the dozens on intelligence collections. So bury all of the nitty gritty stuff that really is the only part that matt…