The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. – Leonard Boswell
We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions. – Leonard Boswell
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. – Leonard Boswell
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. – Leonard Boswell
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 is involved or not (whatever is involved might mean). – Douglas Hofstadter