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2002-05-15 Home Front

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-05-15 10:20 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think I liked it without the shadow on the logo.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-05-15 14:10:59|| 2002-05-15 14:10:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred: Every nutcase on the planet is going to try to pin this one on GW for not doing anything. Trouble is... he's only as good as the people who work for him, and it's possible someone dropped the ball. Mary Lu

Posted by Mary Wehmeier 2002-05-15 22:52:09|| [radio.weblogs.com/0100243/] 2002-05-15 22:52:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt even that there's "blame" for the people around him. Intelligence collection is a process of pulling needles out of a pretty big haystack, and it's not 100% effective. We're talking about four cells of five people each, plus a handful of support thugs in a population of 280 million. CIA is constrained by law from domestic intelligence collection, as is NSA. I presume DIA is as well, but this would have been outside their area of responsibility anyway. That leaves FBI and INS only, and we know INS is pretty much a loss, as they demonstrate every time they approve one of the late al-Qaeda thugs for flight school. FBI's foot is usually in a Congressionally- or court-mandated bucket, with restrictions of wire taps, surveillance and that sort of thing. This is actually a good thing, as it keep FBI as a criminal investigation organization rather than as a secret police. The country needs a competent and dedicated anti-terrorism organization that could take feeds from the other intel organizations and fill them out with its own collection, but that'll take money and there are many, many political ins and outs to step around lightly. We should be much further along that road than we seem to be now, but the same people who're jumping on the intelligence community now are the ones who put the obstacles in place and who should be taking an active part in setting up a real antiterror flying squad. I love watching hypocrits at work.

Posted by Fred 2002-05-16 09:01:49|| 2002-05-16 09:01:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred: On this we completely agree. Blame probably was a very poor choice of words. I should and do know better than that from experience. (Sorry)Without saying alot- 20 years ago at a T-seminar we discussed the concept of ATO. The problem was every damn agency wanted to be in charge (natch.) And then there's this little problem with legality and Rights to dance around. ;-) The Homeland Office is as close as we have gotten publically, but without some cash to kick ass-- they have got a problem. This is getting closer to Clancy's OpsCtr. all the time.

Posted by Mary Wehmeier 2002-05-17 16:49:11|| [radio.weblogs.com/0100243/] 2002-05-17 16:49:11|| Front Page Top

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