------Original Message------ From: John Macartney <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: July 16, 2000 6:55:31 PM GMT Subject: Stuff, July 16 SENATE VOTES TO DENY CLEARANCES TO CRIMINALS. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsthu08.htm ""Common sense dictates that one convicted murderer, or one convicted drug dealer, with a security clearance is one too many," [Sen. Bob] Smith said Thursday." "One communist in the State Department is one communist too many," said Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. Sounds like Joe is dead, but his rhetoric yet lives, in the latest irrational crusade, the misnamed "war on drugs." It appears that the Senate is cutting a wide swath through the U.S. population to greatly magnify the definition of "security risk" once again. I'd watch your wallet whenever one of these opportunists is nearby. Martin Shackelford