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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (334967)	4/23/2007 5:57:22 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1574006

The NRA is respoinsible for insane people getting guns because it lobbies to prevent gun laws from including background checks into anything more than the largely irrelevant basics of a criminal record. I say irrelevant because anyone who a serious criminal would not be at a gun shop in the first place. Maybe at a gun show, but not a gun shop. So who is being screened out? Pot smokers? Those with traffic violations? Meanwhile if you are completely insane and suicidal you can walk in and get a gun no problemo, and this is all because of NRA pressure to minimize background checks. In Virginia we see there is also no waiting period. So someone in a fit of passion can buy a gun and go kill someone before they have time to calm down and come to their senses. None of this NRA garbage makes any sense. But just so you know, I like guns. I don't hunt anymore, but I did as a kid in Ohio, and I once tried to buy a .357 Magnum in Arizona but was turned down because I was not a state resident. If I were an insane Arizonan though, no problem. And all the hollow points I want.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (334967)	4/23/2007 5:57:52 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1574006

'Systematic' security failures in Bush White House Michael Roston Published: Monday April 23, 2007 The head of the House Committee on Oversight and Governance Reform warned today of a "systematic failure" in basic security procedures as well as the safeguarding of classified information in the White House of President George W. Bush. "Multiple current and former White House security personnel have informed my staff that White House practices have been dangerously inadequate with respect to investigating security violations, taking corrective action following breaches, and physically securing classified information," Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card today. Waxman sought Card's cooperation in his probe of a "systematic breakdown" in White House security procedures. According to Waxman, the security personnel "described a systemic breakdown in security procedures at the White House," and he warned that they suggested "that the security lapses that characterized the White House response to the leak of [former covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame] Wilson's identity were not an isolated occurrence, but part of a pattern of disregard for the basic requirements for protecting our national security secrets." The Oversight Committee chairman listed consistent allegations presented to his committee. The White House, he reported in the letter, ignored security breaches, blocked West Wing security inspections, and condoned mismanagement of the White House Security Office. Waxman's letter noted criticism of James Knodell, the Director of the White House Security Office, and Ken Greeson, the Deputy Director, for their inexperience and poor management. "Security procedures prohibit bringing electronic communication devices into a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF)," Waxman wrote. But in fact, subjects interviewed by his committee reported that "Mr. Knodell and Mr. Greeson habitually violate this prohibition by bringing Blackberry devices and cell phones into the SCIF...and allowed others, such as visiting White House personnel, to do the same. They said that this practice continued even after security officers repeatedly informed Mr. Knodell and Mr. Greeson that the practice violates security rules and sets a poor example." In another case, Waxman's letter did not name anyone, but referred to an alarming breach committed by Bush White House staff. "A White House official left [Sensitive Compartmented Information] material behind in a hotel room during a foreign trip with the President. Although the CIA recovered the SCI material and reported the incident, the White House Security Office did not investigate, seek remedial action, or discipline the responsible official," he wrote. The Oversight Committee's letter is up at its website.