Recent elections have been a mess here in Colorado, and today the Secretary of State brought the hammer down. Voting Machines For Major Counties Decertified – Machines Have Problems With Security, Accuracy, […]
State Dept. inspector general resigns – and gets all Biblical about it…
As is the wont of the Busheviks, Howard Krongard, Inspector General for the State Department announced that he will resign his post effective January 15, 2008 – on Friday afternoon. Krongard, who […]
Clinton statement on NIE report is an exercise in double-dealing misdirection
As noted yesterday, a new national intelligence report has caught the Bush White House in yet another round of warmongering lies. No real surprise there. The revelation elicited a range of replies […]
Time to stop rearranging the deck chairs on the SS Social Security
I read with some interest today’s Washington Post commentary A Social Security Fix for 2008 by former Social Security commissioner Robert M. Ball. He claims that there’s a way to solve the […]
Homeland security: the lethal illusion
In defense of the indefensible. If you go through life without making any enemies you’re doing something wrong. If you go through life making a lot of enemies you’re doing something worse. […]
Who needs a police state when the state polices itself?
Last week, Homeland Security approved a program “giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can see through cloud cover and even […]
Recent statements from morons
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 2669 and in support of the McKeon alternative. As the father of three college graduates and a college sophomore, I understand the financial […]
Recent statements from morons
We have eliminated the danger of sectarian war. — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki this week to visiting Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. I do think that it would not be a […]
State Dept. asked to hire ex-military gay linguists
If you’re fighting a war against an enemy who speaks a language — or several — you don’t know, you’re at a disadvantage. It would be hard to make sense of captured […]
Security office’s experts are not stereotypical bureaucrats
Think Progress has a clip of Fox News Sunday where William Kristol is defending Dick Cheney’s exemption of the Vice President’s office from inspections by the Information Security Oversight Office. In the […]
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