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  "I'm sure the FBI/CIA are tired of being required to provide documents by a buch of nose pickers." Now isn't that a crying shame.

  Skeeter, if a Blue Dog President or Congress demanded to listen and record all your conversations, know the balance in your check book, and touted the fact that they could lock you away without the right to a lawyer; you'd be incensed. You seem to hold with some pride to your beliefs, even wallow in the image of the small-minded purveyor for small government; insistent on myopic justification for any action or expense. And yet you turn a blind eye and deaf ear when your Party Pacaderm does just that? They were the ones who grew the monstrosity known as the Department of Homeland Security. Sheesh, the name alone even conjures a goose-stepping image.

  I always find it hard to understand how people who express a desire for less government, less intrusive snooping by Uncle Sugar can tolerate, nay, even luxuriate in such a negation of their rights! He may not be a Rhodes Scholar but the current POTUS can certainly play a mean Piped Piper.

  If they still had the straight party vote switches, I'm sure you'd just need the one to pull on. It doesn't matter the issues, the logic, the history ... I can hear you saying "Why, my daddy voted pacaderm and what he did is good enough for me!" even as you're standing calf deep in their effluent; saluting the passing parade. I've just got to ask, can't you smell that? Get your finger out of your nose, Son! You don't want a US president, you want a KING!!

  I'm also quite sure how you will sound come Jan 20th, 2009, with the shoe on the other foot. I can hear the squealing already.

  Tip off Posted March 17, 2008 4:22 PM
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  I'm sure the FBI/CIA are tired of being required to provide documents by a buch of nose pickers. Who elected these "staffers" their requests should be handled just like a Drugg request and receive no priority.

  dan m ketter Posted March 10, 2008 6:54 PM
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  I am hartened to see that congress is pressing the administration as part of their oversight duty in what the FBI and other government security and law enforcment agencies are doing and why. The publics right to know is limited, yes, but given the FBI's and NSA's own tacit admision of looking into private american citizens activity on the Internet in particular as well as cell phone activity worries me and obviously many americans. Indeed we should be seeking any and all information that is clearly terrorist activity at any cost, but collecting huge amounts of communication activity on average americans that may have overseas interests doesn't pass muster IMHO.

  Jeffrey A. Williams Posted March 10, 2008 5:39 PM
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  Halleluiah and PTL!! Finally, someone is waking up to the fact that the Executive branch isn't responsive to or being held as accountable for or to anything or anyone. Whatever happened to their oath to the Constitution, the duly voted laws of the land, and the people of these United States of America? Do the concepts of Separation of Powers and/or Checks and Balances have any meaning today?

  The Freedom of Information Act has been supplanted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the PATRIOT Act. The superhighway of information has been channeled and reversed into a flowing river that goes into the Capital building and then remains underground. One can only hope it doesn't form a sink hole that collapses our freedoms and future.

  Thank you Mr Noyes, Congress, and GovExec for looking out for us!! Please keep up the excellent work!!

  Tip off Posted March 10, 2008 2:33 PM
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  The majority of our Goliath defense suppliers are publicly traded and seem to be owned by Vladmir Putin and his crime gang. Shareholders vote-in the board of directors and the board then selects senior leadership. The heavy Russian mafia ownership of our defense suppliers began around 1998 when Putin became FSS (former KGB) director. By now, Putin and his foot soldiers have in place everyone they need as leadership loyal to them in most of our defense suppliers.

  Every American needs to be concerned who is the contractor selected to build the FBI's database! Every American must also be concerned with the security protocols in place that prevent the Russian mob from having access to the data collected! Every American needs to make sure that the contractor cannot insert fabricated information of an individual at any time and from any of its sites--such as remotely from a Russian office!

  There's some very scary stuff coming-out within months about the hold Putin and his crime gang have on our government and going as high as the VP's office in this government! Watch the Dusty Foggo trial!

  Dawn Posted March 10, 2008 11:03 AM