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...that just about every House throws a blow-out party at some point during the year to which the whole campus is invited, or that running a student organization with a fixed budget—be it the UC, a HoCo, or any other—requires allocating that budget responsibly. Mather should get the extra funding it deserves, but not because it needs a new foam machine. Mather should get the extra funding it deserves for being a really terrible place to live. Mather is the Quad, without the ambiance...
With Baghdad continuing to burn and the CIA still broken, you would think there would be more important issues for the Democrats and the White House to fight over than whether or not to make the intelligence budget public. But that is precisely what is at issue in a nasty spat currently going on between Senate Democrats and Republicans over the 2007 intelligence authorization...
...President Bush and Senate Republicans say they object to the Democrats' draft authorization because of provisions like making the overall intelligence budget public and creating a statutory inspector general for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Bush said last Thursday that unless these and other provisions that add Congressional oversight of the intelligence community are stripped from the authorization, he will veto...
...does anyone seriously believe Osama bin Laden would be deterred from attacking the United States if he found out we are spending more on intelligence than everyone thinks? I called around to check with my former colleagues. "Who cares whether the intelligence budget is $25 or $75 billion?" a recently retired CIA officer told me, bringing up only one real problem that bothers him. "The entire budget is being flushed down the drain - into contractors' pockets...
...guess, like the budget, the percentage of contractors in the CIA is a well-guarded secret. If it does not already have the authority to obtain that figure, it is one the Senate might...