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2004-11-23 Home Front: WoT

2 congressmen think small, leaving nation at risk

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Posted by tipper 2004-11-23 9:23:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 no agenda in the way this op/ed article was written, nosirree. Why is illegal alien DL's not a valid issue? Why are Hunter's concerns not worth addressing? His committee's control of the pentagon budget would hardly be dented by this minor chg - that's a canard to attack him. USA Today's no source for serious news

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-23 10:04:47 AM|| 2004-11-23 10:04:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Here is a pretty solid rebuttal to this MSM propaganda from the WSJ:(may have to register)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110005931

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-11-23 10:51:14 AM|| 2004-11-23 10:51:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I listened to Hunter on Fox. His point was the Washington bureaucracy was going to be inserted between the satellite gathering and the user - the troops on the ground as in Iraq. I know back in Gulf One, the data was piped that way and the Pentagon spent the next 10 years to make the data as directly accessible by the boys fighting the battle. The natural tendency of bureaucracies is to accumulate power and control, all too often of the expense of the users in the fields [a matter of an FBI agent and the people in Washington concerning Arabs taking flight lessons comes to mind]. Rep. Hunter wanted the bill to be structured to insure that nothing would get between the satellite sensors and the users.

Posted by Don 2004-11-23 10:55:19 AM|| 2004-11-23 10:55:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "leaving nation at risk", eh? We'd be less at risk if we razed the CIA entirely.

Posted by lex 2004-11-23 11:14:35 AM|| 2004-11-23 11:14:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Any chance of a well deserved "barf alert" on this title? Hunter and Sensenbrenner are trying to de-bs the 9/11 Commission -- commissioners who are all retreads/retards. 9/11 Commission is the problem not the solution, just as Woolsey.

Posted by Capt America 2004-11-23 4:33:26 PM|| 2004-11-23 4:33:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 should be "ask Woolsey"

Posted by Capt America 2004-11-23 4:34:46 PM|| 2004-11-23 4:34:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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