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  This is the PORK that causes the RED INK. Do us all a favor, "stick a fork in that Turkey, it's DONE"! With all the money Murtha has wasted, the CIA could have a much better HUMINT recruiting, training, and operational facility. Remember 9/11? You could say that the money the CIA did not have; and the misguided folks in the Clinton Administration, (she refused to allow the FBI and CIA to freely and quickly exchange terrorists' information, directly limited the CIA's ability to determine what was going to happen.) SOLUTION: Fire "Ms J. G.", and CLOSE that ineffective Center, give the funding to the CIA, and "Stay the "H" out of their hair", so they can accomplish their most VITAL mission of protecting this nation, and any other required actions...that we do not need to know about, or try to micro-manage, as the Speaker has been doing.

  John V. Welge Posted August 1, 2009 3:11 AM
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  When the bi-partisan House & Senate Committees on Intelligence have visited NDIC they were very pleased and supportive of the good work being done there. It appears that those who bark the loudest on this issue are those that have never been to the NDIC. When we repeat the same charges after 4 different Presidents and nearly 20 years of operation - we call this journalism? It looks like there is more light here than there is smoke. The real untold story is the unique and vital work done at NDIC.

  Ed Posted July 5, 2009 7:00 AM
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  what happened to the promise of no earmarks??

  dan m ketter Posted July 1, 2009 9:29 PM
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  Republican calls represent politics at its worst. It is no coincidence that they began after Congressman John Murtha criticized the Bush Administration's position on Iraq. Anyone who seriously looks at the facts will readily see through the fiction that partisan politicians, principally Republicans, are promoting. An easy fact to back-check is the April 1993 GAO report erroneously referenced by partisan politicians. These individuals report that this report concludes that NDIC's mission is duplicative of other agencies. In fact, the report--issued six months before NDIC began operations--states that NDIC was being created to eliminate past duplication among agencies with a drug intelligence mission.

  Victoria Hernandez Posted July 1, 2009 9:26 PM
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  You could be on to something Jeff. After all, it was under then President George H.W. Bush that NDIC was first proposed. Bush's drug czar William Bennett mentioned the plan to establish NDIC in his 1990 National Drug Control Strategy. Of course politicians fumbled about trying to get it up and running and Murtha stepped up and got the initial seed money. As for NDIC being located in rural PA, so what? How come no one gripes about the Centers for Disease Control being in Atlanta? Or FBI's fingerprint and criminal history facility being in Clarkburg, WV? This is all political posturing because some Republicans don't like John Murtha.

  Leo Posted July 1, 2009 3:04 PM
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  remind me one more time why we have a budget with so much red ink.

  Dennis Posted July 1, 2009 12:36 PM
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  Over the past many years it is obvious that the Intel Center is not effective and should not be continued. This is a function that should not be allowed. This is in fact a shell game and that out to be "put to sleep". I am ashamed of the "game being played.

  Hal Phelan Posted July 1, 2009 9:53 AM
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  When the critics of this center say it is "poorly located" what do they mean by that? The article does not elaborate. Perhaps because it is in a poor part of Pennsylvania, outside of the Washington DC area it is poorly located. Or perhaps because it is not in one of the southern (red) states favored by the GOP and military leadership. This sounds like nothing more than an effort to criticize a congressman for bringing federal jobs and dollars into a district that has been on the short end of the federal stick for many decades now.

  Jeff Posted July 1, 2009 8:48 AM