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Phone call from the Constitution on line 3. It says the Speech or Debate Clause would like a word.

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somebody needs to go jon stewart with that clip and the oversight committee clip.

like, you know, jon stewart.

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It's not like it's the Qurannic name for Jesus, and thus mentioned more often than Mohammed (PBUH blah blah) and hence also a <em>very</em> popular name in the Islamic world or anything.

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so apparently republicans like outing intelligence agencies (including romney in UK). maybe there's still something to that old canard about CIA being elitist.

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curious to see if it will come up at the debates. and how it's handled.

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<em>De rigueur</em>, at least.

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SIS - C division, in particular.

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Stupid showboating weasel is stupid.

Also, I believe that's a "cluster" of CIA.

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nice mittens.

i see it's starting to get some traction too.

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A silver lining to a Romney win is that Issa will no longer have anything to investigate.

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Cutting funding for security and then complaining about lax security is the same strategy as during the presidential primaries where the military option on Iran was batted about and then when oil prices exploded, they claimed that Obama caused gasoline price inflation.

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I believe the collective term for a bunch of CIA dudes is "Cell"

Also, too, House Republicans' collective term for the State Department is "Coven"

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Man, these guys just passed “a little nuts” at 90 miles an hour.

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that's not enough.

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that's one of my favorite bits in one of my favorite movies.

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I guess it was a bad idea when a student walked in my office and I shouted "Don't look at the computer screen! You're not supposed to see the test ahead of time!"

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