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U.S. shouldn't have to do tap dance over bugging
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn08.html ^
| Jan 8, 2006
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 01/08/2006 2:25:00 AM PST by mal
Here's a Reuters headline from New Year's Day: "CIA May Need Decade To Rebuild Clandestine Service."
A decade, huh? Circa 2016, you mean? The last time I checked the job-completion estimates was back in spring 2004, when the agency's then-director, George Tenet, told the 9/11 Commission that it would take another half-decade to rebuild the clandestine service. In other words, three years after 9/11, he was saying he needed another five years. As I wrote at the time, "Imagine if, after Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt had turned to Tenet to start up the OSS, the CIA's Second World War predecessor. In 1942, he'd have told the president not to worry, he'd have it up and running by 1950."
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; alqaeda; americahate; cia; fisa; gwot; marksteyn; nsa; patriotleak; spying; steyn; terrorism; terrorists; waronterror; wiretapping; wot
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, Pokey!
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01/08/2006 6:47:04 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(McKinney: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Ted Kennedy: a waist is a terrible thing to mind.)
To: mal
According to a Rasmussen poll, 64 percent of Americans believe the National Security Agency should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorist cells overseas and persons living in the United States; 23 percent disagree. What is it the Democrats and media don't get about this? What they get is that if they lie long enough and loud enough they can invert those numbers.
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01/09/2006 2:40:08 AM PST
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PogySailor
(Semper Fi to the 3/1 H&S Company in Haditha.)
To: FairOpinion
Or do the Dems WANT innocent Americans to die? If it will win them elections...
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01/09/2006 5:59:08 AM PST
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CPOSharky
(Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Like demoncrats.)
To: Pokey78
To: All
Everybody. Read the entire article.
The democrats and the media totally suck!
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01/09/2006 6:13:55 PM PST
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Bullish
(Proudly and consistently hating the Clinton's since 1992)
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