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...Democrats. The G.O.P. candidates all claimed to defend taxpayers, but Paul was the only one who refused to accept a taxpayer-funded pension or taxpayer-funded junkets. The candidates all talked about shrinking big government, but Paul was the only one who included the Pentagon and NSA wiretaps and petroleum subsidies in his definition. Bush's approval ratings have been abysmal for years, but Paul was the only Republican who really campaigned for change...
...Just look at the Class of 1967’s letter-writers; nothing would make that brash baker’s dozen happier than if we were all as pissed off as they are. The United States is occupying Iraq! Civilians are being killed! Iran is next! The NSA is listening! Our rights are being jeopardized! And you’re appointing a Task Force on the Arts...
...Appointed by the agency head, they have less independence and investigatory powers and function more like internal auditors than the original batch of IGs that are attached to major government departments such as the CIA. Eleanor Hill, a former Defense Department IG from 1995 to 1999, suggested that the NSA's domestic wiretapping scandal might have been avoided if there had been greater oversight by the DOD IG. "A program as controversial as this one has turned out to be, in my view, certainly should have been overseen by the independent statutory [DOD] IG," she said...
...talking better these days, if for no other reason than the FBI and CIA understand what went wrong on 9/11. But the FBI still needs an intelligence division that deals in information rather than evidence. The NSA needs to find a system that allows other agencies to interrogate its databases or at least trace names using a computer. And the CIA needs to find a better way of disseminating its intelligence without compromising its sources...
...Last week the Pentagon was talking about dumping $1 billion on private intelligence contractors. This gets us nothing, other than to drive up property prices in the Washington area. The NSA doesn't need a contractor to tell it how to let the CIA read its raw data...