You take one lousy week off to join Thorax at the Elvis concert, and this
is what happens: Gunner Asch writes on Sat, 24 Dec
2005 18:37:59 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

And let's be frank: Bush is unlikely to have a genuine opinion of his own on
the matter. He's no Constitutional scholar, and he wasn't a "C" student for
nothing. He's listening to his advisors and acting on what he wants to hear
from them. Yoo was one of his advisors.

One should note..that the time of war snooping on electronic media,
was instituted by FDR at the beginning of WW2. It was further
implimented by Jimmy Carter (Hostage Crisis) and carried forwards
since then by every president.

And over the last few years, such capacity has been compromised by
media outlets, eager for a scoop and wanting to appear 'in the know' (and
with an understanding of operational security based on TV shows and
conversations in bars with guys claiming to be "spooks".)


--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."