How Biden Learned To Love The CIA w/ Jeremy Scahill
May 16, 2021
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Jeremy Scahill joins us to talk Joe Biden and the CIA. Biden once claimed to want to reign in the CIA but quickly changed his tune.
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"When President Ronald Reagan named a veteran U.S. spy and covert operator, William Casey, to be his CIA director, Joe Biden waged a one-senator campaign to show that Casey was unfit to serve in the post. During the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Casey’s nomination, Biden grilled Casey in what some fellow lawmakers described as a virtual “filibuster” to delay sending his nomination to the floor. Biden believed that Casey was not being direct in answering questions about covert CIA activity inside the U.S. and would not convincingly commit to following oversight laws passed in the aftermath of the Nixon presidency. Biden was concerned about Casey’s request that Congress repeal some restrictions on domestic surveillance that had been imposed following the Watergate scandal. Biden sought assurances that Casey would respect an executive order from President Jimmy Carter that placed sweeping restrictions on CIA operations and strengthened prohibitions on the agency conducting assassinations. Biden was the lone senator on the Intelligence Committee to vote against a report that concluded that “no basis has been found for concluding that Mr. Casey is unfit to hold office as Director of Central Intelligence.”"*
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