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I simply do not understand how having an intelligence "czar" will do anything more than add another layer of bureaucracy to the monster that is the federal government.
I caught a bit of Harman's speech on the House floor today. She burbled something about how this bill authorizes the use of robotic planes to fly intelligence runs across the vast unwatched stretches of the Canadian border. Nary a mention of the Mexican border.
She also said that althought she didn't think it was necessary to strengthen the chain-of-command language in the bill to protect the war fighter, "we came up with some language, anyway." Well that's sure about as comforting as a bed of nails.