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Damn, I'd love to see Sarah Palin "exposed"!

God must have helped him.

I became a moderator for all forums on this site in 2000. It remained that way until about a month ago, when I asked SDS to remove me as a moderator.

No one has ever been banned for their stance on any issue or party affiliation. To claim otherwise is whining, plain and simple. One only needs to see a list of those banned to debunk your hypothesis.

Hmmm. I don't think I've ever run across that situation. I might, however, in my new reserve job. Maybe that's because the releasability is inherent in the "compartment", and I've not handled other than SCI for TS. I don't know, I'm just guessing. Don't you have an SSO or ISSM or some other security goober who would get off on answering that one? That's probably what I would do. On second thought, maybe blowing it off is the best idea....

Hehe, good point. By derivative, I just meant that I'm not deciding if something is classified, I'm just using an SCG to determine if it is or isn't. I mostly don't do portion marking just because 90% is classified and it is more pain that its worth to slice up a document so that it can be portion marked in any meaningful manner. Probably. I never have figured out how that really works (or doesn't). Most of my world is associations and multiple unclassified pieces which add up to classified stuff. That's not much fun, but as long as you work in an open storage SCIF it's not that big of a deal. Me neither.

BiB, You and I make derivative decisions about groupings (documents, etc.), but at least I know that I cannot declassify (nor classify) the undelying information. If you have that power, I am impressed. At any rate, I for one am more comfortable with DC making these decisions that I would be with GWB. But that's me.

Well I thought it was funny...

Both of them are rumored Depends wearers, so I doubt either of them was the source of the leak...

Except he allegedly won't be micromanaging Mularkey. It will be MM's call, right?

Semantic game?? Dude, you're losing it. Redondo Beach has good air quality. That's where I'd be. Your analogy doesn't hold, since I would not be in a city with the "filthiest air in the country so can attend a smoke free bar". That's quite straightforward. As for the rest, well, go ahead and play coy, I guess, but we both know what you were implying, whether you admit it or not...

I thought the smiley face meant you were happy...

I don't know if the UN has its own spying capabilities, but certainly everyone else is.

Mickey, Irrespective of any treaties, we spy on everyone and they spy on us. It has always been this way. Is it right or wrong? Depends on who you ask and who is being spied on. The only thing surprising to me here is that you are surprised.

Now you're playing games. There is FEDERAL in your post title. FEDERAL referred to in the link (Federal spending). If you knew that your sentence did not apply to the FEDERAL government, it had no place in your post.