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[lollardfish]

While it's no surprise that Bush doesn't "get" the whole separation of powers thing, it is interesting (in the usual tear your hair out sort of way) to watch the nomination of a military officer for the head of the C.I.A. The whole point is to have a civilian intelligence agency to match up with the military intelligence branch.

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[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Erm, "hair".

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Oops.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

She corrected you just to be polite.

B

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yah. I like to be corrected, actually, when I'm writing public stuff.

I'm not sure that it's truly...

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

...a separation of powers thing. If I'm not mistaken about a third of the former directors have been generals or admirals.

Re: I'm not sure that it's truly...

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that they were retired (not active duty) generals or admirals. Which I believe is the point.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's like boiling a frog.

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Old tale about putting frog in pot of water, and slowly turning up the temperature, so that frog doesn't realise you're attempting to boil it (and just clamber out of the pot) until it's too late.

Or something like that.