Thursday Domestic News
Following up on this story from yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that will, among other things, terminate a program that had California taxpayers financing impotency treatments for convicted sex offenders. The fact that such a program could exist in America in the first place is a travesty; unfortunately, these loopholes are being closed in several states of the Union. (The unfortunate part is, of course, that such programs existed in the first place.)
Several foreign language instructors at Fort Bragg have been arrested on immigration charges. Two Indonesian nationals have been charged with possessing and using false documents, and a Senegalese (?) man has been arrested on charges of being in the U.S. illegally. The article says that they were never privy to any sensitive information.
And, for better or worse, CIA director Porter Goss has decided against punishing CIA staff connected with the 9/11 intel failure. (Link, link.) According to Goss, he doesn't want to send the message that taking risks can lead to punishment. I'm not an expert in the situation, but I personally think that this sets a poor precedent. If someone severely drops the ball, they should be held accountable for that; I'm not sure that the failure of 9/11 can be placed on the heads of CIA officers, as there were certain structural elements to the American intelligence and law enforcement organizations that prevented effective observation and communications. Still, I think there are some indicators that there were officials who seriously dropped the ball, and I think that there's some accountability that has been seriously neglected.
At any rate, that's the domestic news. Stay tuned.
Several foreign language instructors at Fort Bragg have been arrested on immigration charges. Two Indonesian nationals have been charged with possessing and using false documents, and a Senegalese (?) man has been arrested on charges of being in the U.S. illegally. The article says that they were never privy to any sensitive information.
And, for better or worse, CIA director Porter Goss has decided against punishing CIA staff connected with the 9/11 intel failure. (Link, link.) According to Goss, he doesn't want to send the message that taking risks can lead to punishment. I'm not an expert in the situation, but I personally think that this sets a poor precedent. If someone severely drops the ball, they should be held accountable for that; I'm not sure that the failure of 9/11 can be placed on the heads of CIA officers, as there were certain structural elements to the American intelligence and law enforcement organizations that prevented effective observation and communications. Still, I think there are some indicators that there were officials who seriously dropped the ball, and I think that there's some accountability that has been seriously neglected.
At any rate, that's the domestic news. Stay tuned.
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