O.I.C.

(stop reading between the lines! that's not allowed.)

Have you ever seen that old joke about ducks? It makes no sense, until you look at it a certain way. Here's a little part of it:

C.M. DUCKS
M.R. DUCKS
L.I.B.
M.R. DUCKS

(See em ducks? 'Em are ducks? 'Ell I be! 'Em ARE ducks!)

And on and on and on. It was very funny the first time.

Anyway, I haven't seen any ducks lately, but a few weeks back I kept seeing this face every time I turned around:

(this is NOT a face I want to see when I turn around)

Mr. Cheney was all over the news, talking about how safe he kept us back when he was President. I mean King. I mean - what was he again? - oh yeah. Vice President.

He defended the need for "enhanced interrogation" and said that anything goes in times of war. He even said that Obama is making the country vulnerable to terrorists. You remember, right? I complained about it in a previous post.

At first I thought he was on a book tour. Or maybe he was hoping to run in 2012. (Palin-Cheney 2012? There's an interesting thought!)

But then, some new headlines started to emerge.

• Massive Bush Surveillance Program Had Limited Effectiveness
• Pelosi Claims CIA Hid Details On Waterboarding
• Cheney Told CIA Not To Discuss Program With Congress
• Democrats Seek Criminal Investigation

O.I.C.
C.Y.A.

Makes perfect sense.

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Somebody's watching me

(if nobody's watching me, how come these cameras are EVERYwhere??)

Somebody's watching me. I know it.

Here is my evidence:

1. Many of my favorite blogs contain a little thingy on the side that says, "Frisco Texas arrived at X:00 p.m." ...

2. When I go to Blog Catalog, each section I visit shows my little icon for the world to see. "Lesleymo has been here. You just missed her. Try Facebook, she's always there" ...

And 3. All of my online identities are now very much entangled. I'm on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Flickr. Anyone with a few hours to spare could find out that I am actually a gorgeous 22-year-old pretending to be a boring Baby Boomer.

Not to mention 4. Anyone with a basic Spy Kit from Toys R Us could also listen to my phone conversations, except that the only person I talk to is my 2-year-old grandbaby. She is part of my Baby Boomer cover.

So who is watching me? The CIA, of course.

There is a lot of hubbub right now over the Bush administration's top secret surveillance program, which the AP reports "was more far-reaching than imagined and was largely concealed from congressional overseers."

According to the AP story:
"The program included the wiretapping of American phone and computer lines and was intended to detect communications from the al-Qaida terrorist network." ... "most of the information gathered under the wider program ultimately did not have any connection to terrorism."

Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden has angrily refuted the implication that the CIA kept Congress in the dark. He insists that he had briefings with top members of Congress, and that he clearly spelled out exactly what was going on.

"One of the points I had in every one of the briefings was to make sure they understood the scope of our activity 'They've got to know this is bigger than a bread box,' I said," said Hayden.

Oh... yes, that explains it. Bigger than a bread box. Thank you for that clear and specific explanation.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

Silly me.

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