WSJ: Meet the Nidniks -- Washington gets another intelligence bureaucracy. Great.

Wall Street Journal ^ | December 9, 2004 | Editorial

[ELS]

What is the Web site with login names & passwords for those of us who don't want to register or join every newspaper with a "gate"?

[KarlInOhio]

It is www.bugmenot.com but they don't have the WSJ because it is a pay site.

[ravingnutter]

Instead of joining the Congressional stampede, the President could easily have put the legislation on ice until the March release of his own Robb-Silberman Commission's report on intelligence reform.... The stall would have had the added virtue of being the right thing to do....

Ri-i-i-ight...and listen to the 9/11 widows, who are not bipartisan in the least < /sarcasm>, whine for the next 4 months on every TV show they can that Bush is doing absolutely nothing to implement the recommendations of the Commission.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Laura Ingraham was making jokes about the nid. No, national security is not a joke.. but this whole hubbub -- including ABC radio "news" breathless reporting that we are all safe now and WTC victims' relatives suddenly elevated to natinoal security expert status -- is like something out of Monty Python.

"The nid! Run away! Run away!"

[rellimpank]

---he could have got on the tube , explained this, vetoed it and gained even more political clout.

Sort of like what he should have done with McCain-Feingold--vetoed it on national TV with a highlighted copy of the First Amendment behind him on the wall--

[Txslady]

Juet read it Oesy, great article! Thanks for posting it!

Ag - I think this needs your cow posted to it. :o)

Good morning, btw!

[Gritty]

As for the politics, this legislation now takes its place alongside other Administration cave-ins....

*sigh*

[ArrogantBustard]

.Crowning all of this will be the office of the National Intelligence Director. In theory, the job of the NID.

NID, fer cryin' out loud????

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

worse yet, this will morph into our very own KGB.....

[asgardshill]

Yeah, those mokes are everywhere. But if their eyes glow and they start talking in a funny voice, its REALLY time to worry.

[FreedomCalls]

FYI, The WSJ editorials are released without a login needed 24 hours after they are posted. You can read yesterday's today, just not today's.

[ELS]

Thanks. I had seen that posted on another thread. I will bookmark it now.

Sometimes one can read the WSJ editorials at http://www.opinionjournal.com/

[FreedomCalls]

Actually he is going to be called the "Director of National Intelligence", or DNI. Which I guess will be pronounced "NI" as in "The Knights who say NI."

Knights Who Say "Ni": Ni... ni... ni... ni.
Arthur: Who are you?
Head Knight: We are the Knights Who Say "Ni."
Arthur: No... not The Knights Who Say "Ni!"
Head Knight: The same.

[FreedomCalls]

Here's a link to the Google groups version so you can read the whole thing there.

[ELS]

Cool. Is that the usenet feature of Google groups? Google is really coming up with some uesful applications of their search technology.

[bvw]

Dubya's favortire tactic seems to be giving your enemies all the rope and ammo they whine for. And then they go and hang themselves whilst blowing off a few of their own toes.

[FreedomCalls]

Is that the usenet feature of Google groups?

Yep. They have the whole Usenet archive online. I can search on my name and find stuff I posted back in 1997!

[rmmcdaniell]

Dubya's favortire tactic seems to be giving your enemies all the rope and ammo they whine for. And then they go and hang themselves whilst blowing off a few of their own toes.

Sacrificing our freedom for short-term political gain. What a disgusting president we have.

[Eva]

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