But Richard, you are not 'Looped.'  I don't know where you are having your coffee!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kunkel, Richard G." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:33 am
Subject: Re: Intelligence? Appropriateness?
To: [log in to unmask]

> ALSBers,
> 
> Although the security lapse was silly and regrettable, what bugs me 
> more about this episode is that the representative presumably is in 
> Iraq to pay attention to, listen to and learn from the people 
> there, civilian and military, and to LEARN something about 
> successes and /or failures and how to make our policies better.  
> Instead he devotes his time to self-centered and self-promoting  
> Twitter-ing about how he is going from "point A to point B RIGHT 
> NOW!":   This "ITS ALL ABOUT ME, SO PAY ATTENTION TO ME NOW" 
> approach misses the point entirely.  I would prefer the Congressman 
> leave his Blackberry at home and focus on making real progress on 
> the necessary issues.   Save the bandwidth only for communications 
> about actual achievement of some importance.
> 
> But if you like Twitter, here is a Twitter-like tidbit for you:  I 
> am drinking Hazelnut Crème coffee RIGHT NOW!
> 
> Rick Kunkel
> 
> 
> On 2/13/09 9:07 AM, "Clarkson, Gavin S" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> In terms of assessing the partisanship of your post, would you have
> posted the same message with a prominent identification of his party
> affiliation if Congressman Hoekstra had been a Democrat?
> 
> For that matter, would the media have alerted you as gleefully to
> Hoekstra's arguably boneheaded use of Twitter if he were a Democrat?
> 
> (Not a nasty email, just a lament about the level of partisanship 
> in so
> many aspects of our national discourse.  Dubya utterly failed to 
> "changethe tone" in Washington, and I have little hope that Obama 
> will succeed
> in reducing partisan rancor either)  :(
> 
> -- Gavin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Highsmith
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Intelligence?
> 
> Colleagues, I thought this was a priceless example of why government
> does not always work well.
> 
> DOES THIS SOUND SENSIBLE???
> 
> The top Republican on the U.S. House INTELLIGENCE committee used his
> Twitter page to update the public on his precise whereabouts while
> traveling through Iraq and Afghanistan.
> 
> (Terrorists don't use the internet, do they?)
> 
> James Highsmith
> P.S.  Apologies to anyone who thinks this is not a proper subject for
> our list. Judgment call.
> No nasty emails please. :-)
>