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There’s apparently more than one way to fight an administration hell-bent on setting an all-time record (one that will stand for all time) for the number of separate acts of rape perpetrated on the Constitution in an eight-year period.

You can fight them in the courts, and people are. Then, there’s the subtle, fifth-column approach. Sabotage the rapist from within. Kind of like replacing all their rape-viagra with a placebo.

Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
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In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation “was halted due to untimely payment,” the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government’s most sensitive and secretive criminal investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies.

“We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence,” according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time, the report shows. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.

The FBI did not have an immediate comment.

Certainly sounds like there is a secret society of defenders of the Constitution buried deep in the accounts section of the FBI, does it not? Because not even Buttercheeks‘ Justice Department could be so woefully incompetent, could they?

Or maybe it’s just that the Justice Department and the FBI have had way too many other things on their minds?

Or could there be a tacit conspiracy within the Government to make Condi Rice — a future Presidential Candidate, let’s remember — look good (or, at least, much less bad) by bringing all other Departments down to the mismanagement level achieved by the State Department?