Like removing Alberto and getting to the root of leaks of CIA agents and vice presidents who send goons to hospital beds of deathly ill people to get authorization that underlings wouldn't approve.

The President may call extraordinary sessions of one or both Houses of Congress.

 See also one of my favorite speeches (or better yet listen)

I called a special session of the Congress in November 1947--November 17, 1947--and I set out a 10-point program for the welfare and benefit of this country, among other things standby controls. I got nothing. Congress has still done nothing...

There is a long list of these promises in that Republican platform. If it weren't so late, I would tell you all about them. I have discussed a number of these failures of the Republican 80th Congress. Every one of them is important. Two of them are of major concern to nearly every American family. They failed to do anything about high prices, they failed to do anything about housing.

My duty as President requires that I use every means within my power to get the laws the people need on matters of such
importance and urgency.

I am therefore calling this Congress back into session July 26th.

On the 26th day of July, which out in Missouri we call "Turnip Day," I am going to call Congress back and ask them to pass
laws to halt rising prices, to meet the housing crisis--which they are saying they are for in their platform.

NSA's sea change plan for this government/corporate alliance came about when:

The reform-minded NSA director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, took the ground-breaking step of looking outside the NSA's razor-wire gates for new ideas. The NSA has since hired contractors to provide everything from nonsensitive office phones and desktop computers to sophisticated - and classified - eavesdropping and code-breaking gear.

"When you're dealing with information technology, you've got to be able to buy stuff very quickly," says Harry D. Gatanas, the NSA's senior acquisition executive from July 2000 to February 2002. At the Pentagon, he said, "it's a very bureaucratic process which takes 15 years to develop a fighter plane or 15 years to field a tank."

For most of its 50-year history, the NSA designed and built much of its computer equipment in-house, [such as manufacturing its own computer chips at Ft. Meade] both because of concerns about espionage and because few companies understood its complex niche technologies.

But the 1990s saw a high-tech boom and, with it, an explosion in new challenges for the agency. Cell phones and e-mail accounts meant a surge in global communications. Hard-to-tap fiber-optic cables and encryption software available free over the Internet offered new tools for foreign agents to hide or encode messages.

Hayden's ambitious plan to break the agency's Cold War mold - [was] labeled "100 Days of Change", [and became] the NSA's well-publicized effort to turn to private industry for new - and potentially cheaper - technology.

The first, GROUNDBREAKER, is a 10-year, $2 billion project to farm out the purchase and maintenance of computer and phone equipment.

The second, TRAILBLAZER, has awarded at least $480 million to contractors since 2001 to overhaul the NSA's collection and processing of the millions of phone calls, e-mails and other electronic data it rakes from the skies each day.

Some of the NSA's biggest contractors under its Groundbreaker and Trailblazer projects are Science Applications International Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Sciences Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. Spokesmen for those companies declined to comment.

"[To] cover four areas: distributed computing, enterprise and security management, networking, and telephony, an NSA spokeswoman said. NSA wants to award the Project Groundbreaker contract by spring.

Although AT&T would take the network and telephony lead on its team, subcontractor IBM Corp. would handle distributed computing, said Larry D. Spilman, AT&T's vice president and chief operating officer for government markets. AT&T and IBM would share enterprise management duties. Lockheed Martin Corp. and Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego would provide overall support.

From the National Security Agency's own Web site:

National Security Agency Awards Concept Studies for TRAILBLAZER:

The National Security Agency (NSA) awarded three prime contracts on 29 March for concept studies, launching the Agency's transformation efforts. The studies will define the architecture, cost, and acquisition approach for TRAILBLAZER 1, the NSA program to develop analytic capabilities to meet the challenge of rapidly evolving, modern telecommunications. The prime contracts were awarded to Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (Annapolis Junction, MD), Lockheed Martin Corporation (Hanover, MD), and TRW (Systems & Information Technology Group, Columbia, MD). These prime contractors will have over thirty industry partners, in total, associated with their efforts.

The award of these contracts culminates a process that began last August when over 130 potential industry partners participated in a TRAILBLAZER Industry Day at NSA Headquarters. Suggestions from industry, together with definition of the Agency's requirements, led to the subsequent release in October of a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) to obtain detailed industry inputs. The final RFP was released in early December and proposals were submitted in January. The NSA Program Office completed this initial phase with the evaluation of seven proposals from a very broad cross-section of industry, including over 100 enterprises in the sectors of defense and intelligence, advanced information technology, internet dotcoms, commercial business process re-engineering, and academia.

The evaluation of the proposals reflected the Agency's emphasis on innovation to rapidly apply commercial information technology while at the same time providing overall program management through a disciplined acquisition process. The evaluation of this best value procurement took a few weeks longer than planned, due to the complexity of the proposals and the large response from industry. These contracts include a base period of performance and an option for analysis and integration of the results of the studies from all three contracts and other on-going NSA programs and architecture efforts.

The kick-off for these studies will be conducted in early April and subsequent analyses and deliverables will be focused on preparing for a limited production decision in 2002.

The marriage of Intelligence to Corporations precedes the Bush Administration.

Sheesh, can you imagine Wayne Madsen, Arlington, VA, (LT, USN, National Security Agency 1984-85), getting intimidated by CACI? Now that's Operations.

CACI runs psyops operations around the world. And they are just one of many. Most will not even know this stuff is going on, but congress members are probably quite spooked by the threat.

How knowledgeable is Wayne Madsen? An excerpt where Madsen lists some contract areas of the Eagle Alliance:

The Eagle Alliance consists of CSC, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, CACI, Omen, Inc., Keane Federal Systems, ACS Defense, BTG, Compaq, Fiber Plus, Superior Communications, TRW (Raytheon), Verizon, and Windemere.

[...]

The Eagle Alliance is involved in a number of systems that impact on other members of the U.S. intelligence community, foreign SIGINT partners, and national command authorities. These systems include INTELINK, Common Remoted Systems, National SIGINT Requirements Process, Overhead Tasking Distribution, RSOC (Regional SIGINT Operations Center) Monitoring Tool, RSOC Modeling Tool, Speech Activity Detection, Network Analysis Tools, Network Reconstruction Tools, Advanced Speech Processing Services, Automatic Message Handling System, CRITIC Alert, Cross Agency Multimedia Database Querying, Message Format Converter, Central Strategic Processing and Reporting, Collection Knowledge Base, Language Knowledge Base and Capabilities, K2000 Advanced ELINT Signals, Speech Content Services, Speech Information Extraction, Dominant Facsimile Processing System and DEFSMAC Support, Data Delivery (TINMAN), High Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) Database, Satellite database, Protocol Analysis Terminal, Global Numbering Database, Intercept Tasking Databases, DEFSMAC Space Systems Utilities, Message Server, Extended Tether Program, Language Knowledge Services, Trend Analysis in Data Streams, Signal Related Database, SANDKEY Support (SIGINT Analysis and Reporting), and the SIGINT interception database ANCHORY and the ELINT database WRANGLER. In fact, the document states that the contractors' plans foresee the inclusion of NSA's intelligence community partners (foreign and domestic) in the contractors' revamping of NSA's operational systems.

We need someone to bring this maniac back to reality.

seriously, it's time to start hauling people before congress in CHAINS if neccessary (inherent contempt is perfectly doable).  For all these years Bush has been asserting his authority over the legislature and judiciary.  Now it's time for congress to assert IT'S authority.

If it doesn't, Bush wins by fiat and we have lost our country.  Maybe not to him, maybe he won't have time to ruin us, but to the next president that thinks he can pull this garbage again.