Indeed they are.

The director of the FBI reports to the President. An EO by Obama is all that is required.

Sucks about the hardware issue.

He has failed to end surveillance policies over which the Executive branch has complete control.

Why would their editors allow them to jeopardize their meal ticket?

There's a lot of blame to go around. Anyone blaming just one segment of government, or just one person, is not paying attention or is trying to manipulate people.

It's like murder. If you only kill a few (dozen, maybe), you're a murderer. If you kill thousands+, you're a hero.

I don't think the non-American voted for either Obama or Romney. Then again, who knows...

Nvidia supercomputing clusters aren't "repurposed" for highly parallel tasks. That's what they're designed for. They don't just produce graphics cards.

I just read the Ace of Spades meta-review, and I have to say that reading the material quoted from the original review made me lose IQ points. O'Hehir definitely lives in his own little reality.

Pick a political loudmouth of your choice.

Or Tennessee.

I know folks who light a car on fire every year to commemorate a particular event.

The investigators might not have information clearly designating this as a petty matter. Nobody here knows exactly what the employer told the investigators. The manner in which two different people would describe the same incident can be dramatically different, and those differences can be enough to be clearly petty in one case and a very real potential threat in another.

In this case, nobody but the employer and the investigators know exactly how the employer's report described the evidence.

This definitely deserves a funny mod, but alas I have posted numerous comments already.

Al Jazeera? :)