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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
What I meant was what do you guys think?
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Here's what i think - Parts of that intell bill, from what I saw, are wrong. Hunter has a good point. Sensenbrenner is a whack Job - immigration needs tightened but surely he realizes it was a bad plan to push for that on the same weekend Bush promised Vincente Fox he was for immigration reform that would allow more Mexicans to work in the US.
Hunter, on the other hand, has the right of it when he says the Pentagon needs to stay in charge of budget so they can provide up to the minute intel to the soldiers in the field. I know a few people who are doing some work on the WOT and one of the things they're pushing is better, quicker, and higher quality intel. If the Pentagon loses resources then so do soldiers. The power over budget is crucial to Special Ops. They are getting extra money for GWOT that is doing true good. If there's a centralized agency there will be so many competing interests that soldiers could come out on the dirty end of the stick.
While there is an argument for having a "big tent" so to speak that could guard against duplicate services that doesn't always happen the way it should nor is it always better. If it were then we'd see far more major cities have metro services as opposed to county and city services.