WASHINGTON, D.C. — APRIL 5, 2017 — This morning on NewsOne Now, guest host Michelle Bernard spoke with Kristen Clark, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law about the order by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have all law enforcement reform agreements with police departments reviewed. Reached during the Obama administration, these agreements helped create strong police reform, and affect several cities including Chicago, Cleveland, and Baltimore, where the police chief has come out in strong opposition of the decision.
“This administration is about law and order, we have seen that from day one,” said Clark. “Executive orders have been issued where they are pushing law enforcement and prosecutors to be more aggressive on fighting crime. All at the expense of people’s constitutional and civil rights. The reality is that there are 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country occupied by many officers who do their job faithfully, but the reality is that in places like Baltimore and Chicago and New Orleans, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to uproot that systemic bias that infects the system. And these consent decrees are vehicles to help put those police departments on a path to reform and that our attorney general would stand in the way and be an obstacle to the process is shameful.”
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Bernard also spoke with former NSA General Counsel Robert L. Deitz and Dr. Gregory Carr, associate professor and chair of the department of African American studies at Howard University, about the controversy surrounding former National Security Adviser Susan L. Rice. Rice has been accused of identifying Trump associates that have been linked to the collection of electronic surveillance of foreigners, and sharing the information with the press.
“U.S. persons are, from time to time, incidentally picked up in conversations. Everybody knows that. When the NSA or FBI analyzes these intercepts, there’s an obligation under federal rules that U.S. person identities be minimized. That means their names, their positions, and so forth – identifying information – is kept out of the report. However, senior officials who think that they need the names of those folks can obtain that information under two circumstances: one, if you need to know the identity in order to make sense of the intelligence; and second, if there’s evidence that a crime has been committed. The fact that she asked for it in no sense, on its face, suggests wrongdoing. Senior officials do this all the time and the question is simply, can you make sense of this intelligence without knowing the identity of the U.S. person,” said Deitz.
Added Carr, “She can only make a request, and under the Bush administrations and the Obama administrations, they have been frequently denied these requests. As for Trump, they’ve got to continue to play this shell game because increasingly as this investigation unfolds it’s going to be more and more difficult for them to hide.”
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