Oct. 9th, 2007

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Сегодня на Биглере один чувак заявил, что "Вахабизм (sic) во многом явился ответом штатников на коминтерн."

Пришлось, конечно, его несколько подправить. Но, бля, хоть бы он гугланул термин, что-ли. А разговор шёл о Че Геваре, ибо сегодня день отделения его грязной души от тела.
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А можно кому-то ноги из жопы выдернуть за такую хуйню???!!!:
A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.

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Был у врача на предмет контрольного снимка моего пробитого лёгкого. Тьфу-тьфу-тьфу, вроде всё в порядке. Инфильтрат пропал, и лёгкое даже дополнительно расправилось на один сантиметр в верхней части, чего я уже не ожидал, фактически вернувшись к 100% первоначального объёма. Остаётся последний тест -- полёт на самолёте. Но это, скорее всего, потом, в следующем году.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071009/pl_nm/usa_security_democrats_dc_1

I agree with Dems on this one -- there should be more oversight over our internal spying activities and there should be warrants issued. Judicial and legislative oversight would be a balance to the executive's desire to operate without any scrutiny. I hope however that cases like this would not happen when intelligence activities are reviewed by judges and lawmakers. In fact, there should be a provision covering press leaks in the new bill, with severe penalties for blabbing.

One caveat here is that I wonder why Dems have an issue giving blanket retroactive immunity to companies who provided data to the US spy agencies under the statute's current provisions. How could they not have? It's the law, or are we supposed to only follow laws selectively?

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