Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The U.S. Congress Has Declared Wikileaks A 'Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service'

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McClatchy News: Senate Intel slips sentence into bill that could lead to spying on US citizens

WASHINGTON: A Senate panel may be stealthily trying to give federal law enforcement a new tool to go after the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks and its U.S. collaborators.

A one-sentence “Sense of Congress” clause was tacked onto the end of a massive 11,700-word bill that was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and is likely to come before the full Senate later this month.

The clause says that WikiLeaks “resembles a non-state hostile intelligence service” and that the U.S. government “should treat it as such.”

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WNU Editor: Kudos to the McClathcy News reporter who read the bill and found the provision in it .... otherwise we would never know. Another sobering example on how the "Deep State" operates.

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