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| 2006-05-10 |
| Noah Shachtman's description of Bobby Ray Inman's latest speechifying about how bad the NSA's current programs are. |
| Posted by:Phil |
| #10 I hope the administration flips this on that silly sailor and sites his phueching statement as proof flag officers CAN speak their own mind.... and a military officer is the right choice for director of Klingons. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-10 18:47 |
| #9 OS, was that Inman that said all the military people at NSA could wear civvies to work? I forgot about his SecDef nomination and I bet most of the press will overlook his rantings back then as well. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-05-10 18:34 |
| #8 Heh. Talk about damning with faint praise! Thanks, OS. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-05-10 13:08 |
| #7 Nothing I can talk about, other than my complete and utter disdain for this incompetent boob, who let us get caught with our pants down. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-05-10 13:01 |
| #6 Oh, good, another Jimmy Carter guy weighs in... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-10 12:31 |
| #5 "warrantless domestic wiretaps." Apparently, by 'domestic' we mean calls originating from outside the country. /snort. As for Bobby Ray Inman, I had the impression that he was regarded as relatively intelligent if only for being able to spell the names of the heads of state of relatively obscure countries. I do realize that intelligence and competence are two separate things. Perhaps, you have some juicy anecdotes to share, OldSpook? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-05-10 12:30 |
| #4 But sitting in a brightly-lit, basement auditorium at the Library, next to James Risen, the New York Times reporter who broke the surveillance story... Golly. I wonder who Risen got the story from. |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-05-10 12:19 |
| #3 I always suspect the criedibility of any one who call the program "warrantless domestic wiretaps." |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-10 11:42 |
| #2 I can tell you from prior experience that Adm Inman is a clusless dick and crappy DIRNSA. Iran Hostages and Afghanistan Invasion ring a bell? Happened on his watch as DIRNSA. Fecking moron. I wonder if he's going to start his looney "conspiracy" talk again, like what got him shut down when he was nominated as SecDef under Clinton and had to withdraw. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-05-10 11:41 |
| #1 If I were a betting man and I am! I would wager that the LLL Mo0nb@t fever swamps (Democrats) are keeping this on slow simmer until later this year. They will make a bunch of noise in hopes of making some headway by calling it anything other than a intelligence operation. I would love to see Bobby get in front of a Senate panel and repeat his statements under oath. I suspect he would suffer like Billary does from the “I don’t recall” syndrome. Spying on know or suspected persons engaged in ILLEGAL activity is spelled out specifically in the law governing that activity. Any Intelligence analyst fresh from AIT or Tech School can repeat the passage in Title 18 U.S. Code verbatim because it’s pounded into them from day one of Intel school (residual from Watergate). |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-05-10 11:25 |