Franklin and Gilon would normally meet amid the weight machines and punching bags at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, where Franklin passed along secret information regarding Iran’s activities in Iraq, its missile-testing program and even, apparently, New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

Um … is anyone but me *really* curious as to precisely what sort of “secret information” a Pentagon employee would provide to an Israeli agent about *Judy Miller*?

Wow I wish I had more time for the LFA(library for all) :)

Peace ;)

But per Frank, it wasn’t just Mommy and Poppy’s emotional absence. They would have been emotionally absent in almost any event. Robin’s death (and their inverse-Santorum handling of her illness and death) was more than just a catalyst.

Quoting Frank (Bush on the Couch pp14-15

It has been said that the nursery rhyme “Humpty-Dumpty” was written with the first-born child in mind. It seems to capture perfectly the irrevocable trauma felt when the second child is born: Nothing can put the first-born back together again. But first-born offspring find different ways to manage this insult. Some can be overly nice to mask their fury; others can be suspicious of being taken advantage of; sitll others are overcome with fear of losing what they have. But if that next sibling dies, then an entirely new and complex dynamic is set in motion. The first-born often has to disown his destructive fantasies, splitting them off from his consciousness. He then projects them outward with even greater vigor, exacerbating his simplified internal world.
A child who is already relying too heavily on a split worldview developed in infancy is this especially vulnerable to the lasting impact of a sibling’s death. As the Bushes’ first-born child, young George would inevitably harbored resentment toward Robin for taking his mother away from him; when the child’s illness led to absences that took his mother further away, the resentment would have grown stronger — and stronger still in the face of his mother’s grief after Robin’s death.

BC

The Bard reigns…

Bush:

“What a piece of work”

Hamlet, II.ii

I did NOT see the JP Evens comment with the link to the articles about USAO’s funding problems.

If you can give me a hint about which thread to look on, I would very much like to read it.

It’s interesting because the SAC (supervising agent in charge) in a large fed IG’s office was recently forced to shut a satillite office that had a huge multi million dollar fraud case. The case lives on, but it will be much more combersome to try to deal with witnesses that are 2 hours away, not to mention agents from that office that now have a miserable commute to the main office.

Also the Homeland Security IG (who recently left) complained several times, during and after Katrina that he was being denied he funding necessary to prevent waste fraud and abuse and judging from the reports of ripoffs coming to light the past few weeks, I would say he was spot on.

This is an interesting trend if it is nationawide. I have seen individual USAOs get “punished” with funding cuts when DC thatought they were doing their jobs too well, but that just meant the USAO of a lackey got extra funding–the overall threshhold to the program didn’t suffer.

Yes, I would be very interested in reading that article.