The fact that it's getting a lot of ink now, just when Bush is trying to get the former head of NSA put in charge of the CIA, strikes me as some inter-agency warfare via the press as much as anything.

Still trying to wrap my head around the CIA as one of the last bastions of defending our freedoms, no matter why they're doing it.

(And to be perfectly serious, I think inter-agency rivalries are actually a pretty effective protection. Call it second-tier checks and balances.)

Still trying to wrap my head around the CIA as one of the last bastions of defending our freedoms, no matter why they're doing it.

Yeah. I've mentioned this before, but in college I protested CIA recruitment on campus. Now I feel sorry for them.

Bush is trying to destroy the CIA, or at least neuter it, because they refused to tell him exactly what he wanted to hear....

Huh. Obviously, the NSA is blocking Natter posts....

Bush is trying to destroy the CIA, or at least neuter it, because they refused to tell him exactly what he wanted to hear....

::cough::daddyissues::cough::

Huh. Obviously, the NSA is blocking Natter posts....

scribbling pen noises Huh. Obviously, the NSA....

puts on Guy Fawkes mask, looks for where I put those damn knives...

Natteristic anarchy! . . .

It's possible I need a nap.

My friends and I have been playing Balderdash over email today, and it's surprisingly fun.

I have a head cold, and I want to either feel better, so that I feel better, or worse, so that I can justify going home and taking a nap.

My head cold killed Natter, even though I didn't sneeze on it.

Oops.

There's something missing in my life.

Maybe candy....

Yeah. Love the Housely Stupid Cane Tricks. Betcha Laurie has a friend with a cane. I'm like, hoping NSA got a hold of me and busted my records for, like, "Wire" plotlines. Wouldn't they feel stupid? "But she said 'harbor, smuggling, and drugs'. I have to stay and fight cause nobody wants an emigre' like me. Until the new snark-based economy develops.