Monthly Archives: January 2006

I already addressed REAL-ID’s tragic and horrendous screw-up — now Bruce Schneier brings our attention to another failed security system: US-VISIT. It’s cost us $15B plus great annoyance for foreign travellers coming into the state or American visitors to Brazil. If Bush wants to cut underperforming and disappointing programs, like he said in the State [...]

House Aims to Limit Members, Now Lobbyists – Yahoo! News Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., testifying to the Rules Committee, said the rules changes did not go far enough. He argued that lawmakers-turned-lobbyists should also have to stand in security lines like other visitors to the Capitol, lose their member dining room privileges and give up [...]

BLINDED BY DEMOCRACY – Yahoo! News Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s frank words after the gigantic Hamas electoral victory in Gaza last weekend should be engraved in bronze in a prominently displayed plaque in the lobby of the State Department. No, I take that back. Identical plaques should be hung in the lobby of the [...]