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Surely, you are aware that members of the military have limited constitutional rights compared to the public at large. Knock off the strawman arguments about the KGB. What I referred to was use for the armed services, not the public at large.

If you have nothing to hide , you have nothing to fear from having an informant in your ranks. Hopefully this will be scaled up to be used in the military writ large. It's a good way to drum out the people who don't belong in the armed services.

Obviously, I wasn't talking about comments directed towards me, but ones directed at elected officials like the President. I admit that someone with poor logical and reading comprehension skills could think otherwise, I guess it's clear that standards have dropped in certain departments as I...

Never Interfere With an Enemy (or someone debating you) While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself. - Napoleon. Or in a modern manifestation "Please proceed, Governor". Some of the replies dwere unfortunately edited by the moderator, since they rather illustrated my point in an ironic...

Btw, I think the big issue is lost here and why I wanted to post. Let me condense it. A great majority of officers vote it in the hard-right Tea Party in 2010. >This leads to deficit reduction which inevitably whacks the military hard > Said officers complain about it even though they voted in...

Although it's slightly OT, this isn't a partisan thing. Even before the GOP government shutdown debacle, many Republicans and their staffers have been irked by the tactics and viewpoints of the Tea Party. Everyone loves McCain and he's been a tougher critic of these folks than the Dems. In...

So, some of these comments don't merit a response because it can be easily rebutted (like the stuff on the debt ceiling and the fillibuster), but no one said both parties play the leak game. Of course they do, I am specifically referring to the DoD using that tactic to undermine the Executive...

I wonder if someone is parsing my OP too much or being deliberately daft. This post is outside of my official capacity and my personal viewpoint. Scanning websites may be something done for like 30 minutes or up to an hour a week, so give me a break if you think tax dollars are going to check...

So this is the kind of stuff that makes me laugh when I read it. I guess the idea is that Cold War spending is the baseline. Neither our political or military leaders implied that was the case. Everyone expected for spending to go down when the Cold War ended. And no, they weren't Clinton's...

As I mentioned before, no one doubts the fact that cutting spending increases unemployment, but there is no economic theory that espouses what you are describing, what Krugman calls "weaponized Keynesianism" where somehow cutting military spending has an adverse impact on jobs and the economy...

Well, I think if you parse through my original link, a lot of the current anger has to do over those unhelpful leaks that go to the press. It seems the favorite newspaper to leak to is the WSJ,hmm what a coincidence? I guess the point would be, if you're going to leak do it when both parties are...

Again, this is the kind of mindless thing you hear on Meet the Press about why can't Congress come together. There's no such thing as Congress. There's two separate parties on Capitol Hill with very little overlap in constituencies that barely socialize or talk with each other. I am not saying...

Hello, I am a long-time lurker and I feel like I needed to comment. First let me introduce myself. I am a Hill Staffer and have done a lot of work on the Senate Armed Services Committee going back several years. Not surprisingly, I've seen a lot of complaints about budget cuts on this site...