As for archival copies, so many government agencies and private corporations fail at it, its not longer funny. Just because you think you are backing up and archiving does not mean you are and you only do so in reality when you randomly and routinely check all back up and archives, in fact you need to spend more time on testing and auditing backups and archives than in producing them in order to ensure that you are in reality producing them and that is up to and including restoring from backup onto test systems.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comi...

Now, imagine what would happen if the NSA gave another false "we don't mass collect" excuse this time.
Anyways, if that Rep. intentionally is trying to shed new light on the NSA's workings, then well played, even if he is a Texas Republican.

He was later positively identified by witnesses.

Since when do eyewitnesses "positively" identify subjects?

Can't you read? "These clean-slate designs explore novel network architectures and networking concepts and also consider the larger societal, economic and legal issues that arise from the interplay between the Internet and society. So yeah.. that's spying and censorship and making sure you pay extra for it too.

To design a "new Internet" also presents another unfortunate opportunity for commercial entities to influence its making.

Imagine if advertisements were an integral part of the Internet infrastructure. Consider the implications if the RIAA and MPAA, media content providers, and ISPs had their way with the development of a new web framework. An of course, the serious issues resulting if the government got itself involved.

...consulting groups, and yet more went to union negotiations...

So that's how the consultants told them to spend the money...