- ’Crazy’ Pete Hoekstra
- Heather ’Money Fairy’ Wilson, and
- Jane ’I’m not telling you if I voted with the Goopers’ Harman

If so, then it sounds to me like Three Totally Compromised Politicians were assigned ’fixer’ duty by their handlers through the Totally Compromised Hastert (the Speaker of the House) – and they weren’t given any choice about it.

IOW, the House was ’made’ to do the ’dirty’ work that the Senate wasn’t prepared to do – and it appears that the key players were all ’leveraged.’

So, imvho, it seems that the story here is not only the legislative gutting of 215, but also the ’inside’ story on the ’tools’ that were ’used’ to do it.

Global Sensor Network (GSN). The GSN communications architecture supports the warfighter to find and fix terrorist networks and/or individuals by networking attended and unattended sensors. GSN leverages the Global Video Surveillance Activity (GVSA) for the development and integration of biometric, SOTVS, and HFTTL capabilities. SOCOM, in collaboration with DoD, external agencies and Coalition partners, will develop, deploy, and employ a GSN directly supporting SOF operations against terrorist activities.

(My Bold)

Are you wearing a metal hat with giant horns sticking out of it while you plow through those documents?

The definition of HFTTL (page 22 of 46 page PDF):

…HFTTL provides Global Combatant Commanders and SOF operators with an immediate capability to tag, track and locate high-value targets in the Global War on Terrorism…

DoD Releases Military Intel Program Budget Docs

Newly disclosed Department of Defense annual budget documents reveal the structure and some of the contents of the Military Intelligence Program that supports DoD operations…

…Newly declassified budget justification books for the MIP help provide some insight into what all of that money buys. They present a capsule description of more than a hundred individual MIP programs along with a report on their current status, from the Advanced Remote Ground Unattended Sensor (ARGUS) to the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) program, as well as the space-based Nuclear Detonation Detection System, the ever-green Space Radar program, and many more…

…Some activities, such as the Special Operations Command program known as THORS MACE, are mentioned but were said to be too sensitive to describe even in the original classified budget documents…

For example, the Military Intelligence Program – FY 2009 Congressional Justification Book, vol. I (redacted) is an almost 24 MB 300 page PDF.

Twill take a lot of close reading to connect dots.