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2008-02-07 Home Front: WoT

U.S. Spy Chief Retreats on Iran Estimate

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Posted by Sherry 2008-02-07 11:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 saying he wishes he had written the unclassified version of the document in a different manner.

I wish you did too and I wish you didn't wait so long to say your unclassified doc was not clear.

The assumption that I got from the report was Iran has stopped everything but my gut feeling knows better.

Posted by Gomez Crerenter7782 2008-02-07 13:39|| 2008-02-07 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Lead story on the network news tonight. I'm sure of it...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-07 14:19|| 2008-02-07 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 WTF? Jeebus...we are well and royally screwed. We should just shut the whole thing down and outsource our intel to Israel while we clean house from the ground up.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-02-07 14:44|| 2008-02-07 14:44|| Front Page Top

#4 The damage is done. You petty D.C. game players made your nuclear ground zero, and lookie, you're living in it.

Posted by ed 2008-02-07 15:37|| 2008-02-07 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Who needs enemies when you have friends like this? If I were boss, there'd be no begging for forgiveness after an act like this.

Posted by gorb 2008-02-07 16:18|| 2008-02-07 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I demand clarity.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-02-07 17:31|| 2008-02-07 17:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I demand clearing. Clarity will then come naturally.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-02-07 19:05|| 2008-02-07 19:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Close D.C. down completely and turn the place into parks and museums. Move the nations capitol to the center of the country. Outlaw all forms of lobbying and institute term limits.

Get ready, and hold on, it's going to be a bumpy ride for the next few years, no matter who gets elected.

Posted by Chunky Uleresing9244 2008-02-07 20:02|| 2008-02-07 20:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm votin for chunky.

Posted by jds 2008-02-07 20:12|| 2008-02-07 20:12|| Front Page Top

#10 I think we should do more than Chunky said.

1) Every 8 years (staggered per division) move government departments to different areas of the nation. Do not encourage workers to move with the departments with moving allowances or anything like that. That should provide a %90 or better clean slate renewing government departments.
2) Move the house and senate with no transfer of aides. Of course this would impoverish a certain Virgina Suburb but those folks could discover the joy of a real job.
3) Outlaw paid lobbyists.
4) Outlaw foreign lobbyists.
5) Require congress-critters to actually write their own laws. Maybe do automated authorship studies on bills to make sure an aide didn't write it. After all if we wanted the aide's opinion and views we would have elected them instead.

More later.

Posted by 3dc 2008-02-07 20:59|| 2008-02-07 20:59|| Front Page Top

#11 I would define a finite limit of laws, i.e.: you write one, you propose two that should be removed to balance. There are surely enough obscure and single-lobbyist-assisting laws that the legislators can't resist, but, sooner or later, they run up against a limit...heh

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-07 21:48|| 2008-02-07 21:48|| Front Page Top

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