uh oh

one of our national data collection centers/programs/spy headquarters may be 'on the brink of collapse'? uh oh.

i wonder if someone who is considering voting for mccain goes though the list. what list? the list of horrid things that have happened since king george ascend the throne. THAT list.

i just don't understand how ANYONE NO MATTER WHAT PARTY THEY ARE LOYAL TO, COULD VOTE FOR MORE OF THE SAME (or worse)
f**k up after f**k up after f**k up. this isn't the keystone cops here. it's costing us HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

(just wait until those winter heating bills start pouring in)

Controversy Snarls Upgrade Of Terrorist Data Repository

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.

Washington Post Staff Writer

A major effort to upgrade intelligence computers that hold the government's master list of terrorist identities is embroiled in controversy about the project's management and the work of contractors hired for the job, documents and interviews show.

The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, serves as the central repository of information about more than 400,000 suspected terrorists around the world. Operating at the National Counterterrorism Center, TIDE and other systems each day deliver files of information to watch-list programs that screen people traveling into the United States, or they make data available online to intelligence analysts across the government...............

............After more than a year and about $100 million, the Railhead project has become the focus of criticism from some counterterrorism analysts and contractors, who have said it does not provide the search capabilities they expected and appears to be behind schedule. One lawmaker has taken up those questions and publicly asked for an investigation by the inspector general of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, saying his congressional staff has information from a contractor whistle-blower that shows the project is on the "brink of collapse," possibly threatening national security..............

yeah right

i'm sure it was HIS own idea to leave............

(perhaps it IS possible it was his own idea to leave. first tell the truth. we are NO safer from terrorism since we ILLEGALLY IMMORALLY invaded iraq, then 'retire'.)

more likely, THEY (king george and his court) made him 'retire' for 'knee surgery'

After Comments, U.S. Terror Chief Resigns
Justin Rood Reports:
Three days after Americans saw the Bush administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his resignation, citing health reasons.
In an e-mail sent to his staff Wednesday afternoon, Adm. Scott Redd, head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), said he was stepping down to "take care of some long-delayed surgery that I can no longer neglect.".........

wow a couple of honest words

from the head of a counter-terrorism organization. will wonders NEVER cease?
(and once again, this is something EVERYONE knew yet it's unusual for one of the big boyz to say it aloud)
Counterterror head says US not 'tactically' safer following invasion of Iraq
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the primary US organization responsible for analyzing terror threats, told NBC News that the nation is probably not "tactically" safer from the threat of terrorism following the invasion of Iraq.
Asked by reporter Richard Engel if the war in Iraq had created a "giant recruiting tool" for terrorists, Center head Scott Redd said that "in the short term, that is probably true. But the question is you've got to look at this, I believe, in the long term strategic view." .......