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...welcome sign for more terrorist attacks. Long Nghiem Placentia, California, U.S. Why make yet another bureaucratic position within the intelligence hierarchy? The current agencies are under enough pressure as it is, trying to reform their infrastructure to meet the security demands of our country. They don't need another watchdog looking over their shoulder and attempting to solve every problem. David Stack Yorba Linda, California, U.S. Strained Relations Re Your story on President Bush's visit to Europe [Feb. 28]: Bush's purpose in crawling back to Europe was to thwart the development of a united Europe and to cajole...
...Internet has grown too large to think of it as a single place, says Esther Dyson, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet watchdog group. "It needs to be subdivided into smaller neighborhoods. There should be high-class neighborhoods. There should be places that parents feel are safe for their kids...
...WATCHDOG After speed-dialing 911 for her unconscious owner and barking into the phone, a Rottweiler in Richland, Wash., let the cops inside...
...Pentagon was justified in setting the contract, known as Future Combat Systems, outside the normal procurement process. "The type of contracting leaves the government extremely vulnerable because there is no transparency or taxpayer protection," says Eric Miller, the senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "It is ripe for abuse and often misused." A Pentagon representative said the program is being properly monitored...
...expressed willingness to “tweak” the legislation by specifically listing companies such as the Alcatel communications company of France and the Siemens AG communications company of Germany, which have been accused by watchdog groups of conducting business with the Sudanese government...