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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (12916)	5/31/2002 3:46:34 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"It's a technical service provided to the government at large. " Which can most easily graph the sum total of information and knowledge value in the US, both for economic and national security. It's from that POV that added value of the government comes. They've got the budget, and there are more computer scientists there than anywhere, including library scientists and economists... With the proper leadership and direction, the GAO or other agency could fill that role and gin a group to open and leverage the trillions in potential information value locked up. For political and bureacratic reasons it's more likely to be a maverick independent group like Fitts, at this point. They will get resistance from the entrenched, but will perservere, hopefully. This Administration hasn't seen fit to honor that legislation and the Congress hasn't seen fit to follow it up. No one cares, except the American people. The rest should be removed from office for deriliction of duty. Re:the role of intel in 2002 - shouldn't be covert ops, until and unless there is truth and accountability in all of intel, from information analysis to ops. And that ain't happening. Both are unaccountable, and history shows many report to no one except high enough officials or ex-government officials for purposes that are illegal, or even specifically banned by Congress, and certainly produce private profits. IOW, not only do they break the law, they feel free to break specific laws aimed at keeping them from breaking the laws! If you get my drift. Pathetic, if it weren't completely ridiculous and worthy of blowing the entire group out of the water, redrawing the mandate and re-hiring qualified only. I'm a manager dealing with small groups of dozens and interfacing with massive groups of 120,000, and its clear the only correction to habitual clandestine offensive behaviors sometimes must be total reduction and reorganization from basic principles. There is no other way of rooting them out.