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...inside. The rescuers wept as they cradled them, limp and weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack must have come from outside. America may no longer be safe from imported terrorism, but we weren't supposed to grow it here at home...
...wandering seniors were only slightly upset that the tailgate failed to materialize. “All it would have taken was a flag and some food to congregate in one location,” Golson grumbled. “But it’s okay...
...unintentional effect, the commission found, was to place in general bureau circulation a large amount of sensitive data collected by covert electronic listening devices and searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Not only did this make the data more accessible to potential FBI turncoats, but failing to flag the data as especially sensitive also opened the possibility that agents in far-flung venues might inadvertently disclose bits and pieces as evidence in court filings, thus compromising crucial intelligence penetrations of terrorist groups. On Oct. 12, FBI lawyers realized the blunder and ordered that all FISA data be tagged...
...Frankly, I’m not aware what else they’ve done to show their support for the United States since September 11th,” he writes in an e-mail. “And now six months later, I find the hanging of a large flag off the side of a building by itself to signify less and less anything stirring about one’s patriotism...
Parker suggests in an e-mail to FM that a third party may need to be brought in: “If their ‘solution’ is to put a spotlight in the yard so they can display their quite enormous flag, there may be safety issues involved in stringing a live extension cord across a student walkway, especially in inclement weather, but this is not my domain...