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Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings
CNet is reporting that a newly created branch within the Homeland Security Department that brings together many different federal agency employees and private sector players has been given the go-ahead to disregard a law requiring meetings to be open and proceedings public. From the article: "The 1972 law generally requires such groups to meet in open sessions, make written meeting materials publicly available, and deliver a 15-day notice of any decision to close a meeting to the public. The last is a particular point of concern for Homeland Security officials, who anticipate that private emergency meetings may need to be scheduled on short notice."
A story about the Department of Homeland Security's Proceedings? What relevance does this have to most of the slashdot crowd?
I don't like Scuttlmonkey's use of slashdot as his personal soapbox to vent on his politics. It's obvious some of the slashdot editors are angry, lefty, Bush bashers, but they don't need to shove their political tripe down the readers' throats.
This story is basically offtopic.
So I was watching "24" on my "Wednesday" (Heh hem! cough! thanks to BT), and thought, what if Jack Bower had to go through all those red tapes to get things done to prevent the terrorists plots, or head of CTU/administration had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before making any decision.
And then I wonder... what if terrorists also had to go through "15 days public hearing" disclosure before the attack?
Yeah, this could mean, a very long season for "24".
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
You should go back and learn how to properly use apostrophe's. Its amazing that someone with the power to post article's on such an influential web site cant even look at an article and discern whether it's title is gramatically correct. The saddest part is that the Slashdot reader's looking at this comment may not comprehend the irony.
The apostrophe create's semantic meaning; its not just to make you're writing seem learned.
Once youve gone back and brushed up on remedial grammar, you should take care to learn the plural posessive form of a noun. Thats the one where you put an apostrophe' on the right side of the letter S, rather than on the left.
Good boy.
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html