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[widget_alley]

Earlier tonight a disturbing thing indeed happened to me on the road. I was passed by a patrol car, but outfitted in green and yellow rather than black and white, and the block lettering on the side proclaimed it to be a "National Security Agency" vehicle. I was driving, so I didn't have time to inspect the seals and blazons on the side, but it

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[hlaron]

I'm approaching the opinion that the war on drugs is even more damaging to the US than the war on terror, but if it is that may only be because of greater antiquity. Give it time, eh? *sigh* I really should kidnap you.

(Is "National Security Administration" a synonym for "National Security Agency"? And are they already tapping out conversations? For some reason I assume they are, although this doesn't particularly concern me since I'm not in the country. That will continue right up until I get stopped at immigration.)

[hlaron]

Actually, come to think of it, doesn't the NSA prefer to fly under the radar? I could see Department of Homeland Security vehicles driving about, but not NSA ones. Might it have been the National Nuclear Security Administration? That would make some sense, given your locale, and would also be marginally less worrying than the NSA patrolling about.

Not that this much effects the bad shit that's going down over there, o'course.