Buried in the technology section of the Washington Post writer Andrea Peterson finds something interesting
While the National Security Agency (NSA) has largely escaped the government shutdown, the panel investigating NSA spying practices has effectively been frozen. Politico reports that as of Friday, the five-member Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies lost its staff to the furlough associated with the government shutdown.
The group, which is largely comprised of intelligence community and White House insiders, …(snip)
… While in theory the members are unpaid, so the panel could continue without support staff or payment for travel expenses, that seems unlikely.
Well, not like the panel was giving a damn about the spying.on Americans in the first place.
Well, it’s not like NSA is a smoothly running machine.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-nsas-data-center-keeps-melting-down-2013-10
But then, is there anything the feds do well … or right?
I’m trying hard to think of something……coming up blank. They don’t even spend money well.
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But, they are highly accountable with perfect audits, right?
I mean, .. well… ok.. what DOES happen with a bad audit … if one ever occurs?
/rhetorical, i know.