Ron Wyden Quotes
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
United States, Congress, Senate. Senator Ron Wyden speaking on Intelligence Oversight. Congressional Record, vol. 160, 2014. Government Publishing Office.
Protesting the Supreme Court Texas v. Johnson decision protecting the right to burn the American flag as "symbolic speech:"
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
He was referring to the George W. Bush and his behavior on the Iraq War.
Freedman was the producer and narrator of a TV series on sophisticated topics of science. There are a number of jurisdictions in the world where it is not a crime to clone a human being. Once someone implants a clone into a human female, there is little society can do little to “prevent” the clone from being born. Many religious fundamentalists who oppose human cloning will fight to protect the life of the clone baby in utero. For all we know, clones have already been born and are attending school with other children as no one could easily tell that a child (or an adult) is a clone.
He was referring to the massive surveillance NSA program whereby all telephone calls and most digital communications for every American was secretly tapped and stored in an NSA data base. The Senators of the Intelligence Oversight Committee received information in Classified executive sessions but they were not allowed to disclose anything that they learned in the briefings—even something as huge and probably unconstitutional as this program. Moreover, even when officials of the Intelligence Services lied under oath (see {634917}) in open session, the Senators could not disclose this fact.
Helms, then Deputy CIA Director, and other CIA witnesses, even though under oath, covered up the fact that they had initiated and failed in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro which since became public knowledge. There may well have been other CIA motivations for misleading the commission. The fact that they did, as well as the FBI which also was not truthful with the commission, has led credence to all the wild conspiracy theories that people have come up with about the assassination. See {642340}.
Ronald Lee Wyden is an American politician who is currently serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He is the current dean of Oregon's congressional delegation.
