19-641: Western Goals may refer to: The Western Goals Foundation , a private intelligence dissemination network active on the right-wing in the United States The Western Goals Institute , a conservative pressure group in Britain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Western Goals . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
38-550: A "mini- deep state ". According to former employees, agencies receiving information from Western Goals included the Drug Enforcement Administration , the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , Federal Bureau of Investigation , Central Intelligence Agency , and police departments. John Rees and Larry McDonald joined with Major General Singlaub to form Western Goals in 1979. Each founder
57-438: A criminal act was likely to be uncovered by any intelligence gathering proposed. Many files on radicals, collected for decades, were ordered destroyed. The unintended effect of the laws was to privatize the files in the hands of 'retired' intelligence officers and their operatives. As a private foundation, Western Goals collected information about alleged subversives and passed the information to law enforcement officials, akin to
76-682: Is found there is entered at the request of Members of the House of Representatives. From a legal standpoint, most materials in the Congressional Record are classified as secondary authority , as part of a statute's legislative history . By custom and rules of each house, members also frequently "revise and extend" their remarks made on the floor before the debates are published in the Congressional Record . Therefore, for many years, speeches that were not delivered in Congress appeared in
95-477: Is the Daily Digest, which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities and serves as a table of contents for each issue. The House and Senate sections contain proceedings for the separate chambers of Congress. A section of the Congressional Record titled Extensions of Remarks contains speeches, tributes and other extraneous words that were not uttered during open proceedings of the full Senate or of
114-576: The Congressional Record , including in the sections purporting to be verbatim reports of debates. In recent years, however, these revised remarks have been preceded by a "bullet" symbol or, more recently and currently, printed in a typeface discernibly different from that used to report words spoken by members. The Congressional Record is publicly available for records before 1875 via the Library of Congress ' American Memory Century of Lawmaking website, and since 1989 via Congress.gov (which replaced
133-656: The Register of Debates , the first series of publications containing congressional debates. The Register of Debates contains summaries of "leading debates and incidents" of the period rather than a verbatim debate transcript. From 1834 to 1856, Gale and Seaton retroactively compiled the Annals of Congress , covering congressional debates from 1789 to 1824 using primarily newspaper accounts. When Andrew Jackson's Democrats came into power in congress around 1830, Gales and Seaton's popularity declined due to their differing views with
152-751: The Soviet Union were also publicized in Reader's Digest and by the Reagan administration . Western Goals was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after a police officer was caught adding information from the disbanded Los Angeles Police Department "Red Squad" to a related computer bulletin board system . Western Goals raised funds for the Nicaraguan Contras starting in 1983, after Congress banned
171-611: The THOMAS database in 2016). Thanks to a partnership between GPO and the Library of Congress, digital versions of the bound editions are available on govinfo.gov for 1873 to 2001 (Volumes 1-147) and 2005 to 2015 (Volumes 151-161). Govinfo.gov also provides access to digital versions of the daily edition from 1994 (Volume 140) to the present. In early United States history, there was no record of Congressional debates. The contemporary British Parliament from which Congress drew its tradition
190-902: The Reagan administration from providing U.S. support. A Contra brigade of 2,000 was named the Larry McDonald Task Force to honor the Western Goals co-founder, who had been killed in the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 . Singlaub was an intermediary in Oliver North ’s illegal weapons network for the Contras. Officials of the foundation were questioned in the Iran-Contra hearings of 1986. The organization founded an offshoot, Western Goals (UK) , later
209-671: The United States. Rees set up a computer database to track suspected radicals, and wrote many of Western Goals' published reports about domestic subversives, terrorism and communist threats. People in law enforcement sometimes leaked derogatory intelligence to Western Goals, which Rees then published in newsletters, which in turn were entered into the Congressional Record by McDonald , which shielded him from libel . Western Goals would then cite McDonald's statements in its own public reports. Unverified reports by Western Goals accusing American pacifist groups of ties to communism and
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#1732786787406228-566: The War of 1812, public sessions became commonplace. In the early 1800s, political reporting was dominated by National Intelligencer , the first newspaper of Washington, D.C. Newspapers with reporters in the chamber regularly published floor statements in their reports. Joseph Gales and William Seaton , the editors of the Intelligencer , became regular fixtures in the House and Senate chambers. In 1824, Gales and Seaton began publishing
247-751: The Western Goals Institute, which was briefly influential in British Conservative politics. Congressional Record The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress , published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record Index is updated daily online and published monthly. At
266-652: The end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. Chapter 9 of Title 44 of the United States Code authorizes publication of the Congressional Record . The Congressional Record consists of four sections: the House section, the Senate section, the Extensions of Remarks, and, since the 1940s, the Daily Digest. At the back of each daily issue
285-579: The full House of Representatives. Witnesses in committee hearings are often asked to submit their complete testimony "for the record" and only deliver a summary of it in person. The full statement will then appear in a printed volume of the hearing identified as "Statements for the Record" . In years past, this particular section of the Congressional Record was called the "Appendix". While members of either body may insert material into Extensions of Remarks, Senators rarely do so. The overwhelming majority of what
304-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Goals&oldid=765497709 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Western Goals Foundation Western Goals Foundation
323-680: Was a private domestic intelligence agency active in the United States. It was founded in 1979 by Major General John K. Singlaub , the publisher and spy John H. Rees , and Congressman Larry McDonald . It went defunct in 1986 when the Tower Commission revealed it had been part of Oliver North 's Iran–Contra funding network. After the Watergate and COINTELPRO scandals of the early 1970s, several laws were passed to restrict police intelligence gathering within political organizations and tried to make it necessary to demonstrate that
342-695: Was a highly secretive body, and publishing parliamentary proceedings in Britain did not become legal until 1771. The Constitution , in Article ;I , Section 5, requires Congress to keep a journal of its proceedings, but both the House Journal and the Senate Journal include only a bare record of actions and votes rather than records of debates. In the first twenty years, Congress made frequent use of secret sessions. Beginning with
361-735: Was also a member of the World Anti-Communist League , the John Birch Society , and similar organizations. One of its principal sponsors was the Texan billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt . The organization was based in a townhouse in Alexandria , Virginia . It also said it had offices in West Germany and Austria . A former employee told Politico in 2018 that more of its funding came from West Germany than
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