From: Wayne Q Jones <qjones@infi.net> The "roadblocks" put up by intelligence is no surprise. Afterall what did happen to the 10 millions of the Iran-Contra drug money? What about the DEA agent who stole several hundred thousand dollars in drug money? FinCen is one way of hiding the illegal drug escapades of the intelligence community. It's precisely because of the CIA's illegal funding of covert activities (ones they can't even get a black budget for) that I posted on eff.talk, the day that Ames was uncovered, that he most likely slipped through the detection-net of overspending precisely *because* agencies like this and the CIA cooperate to hide the illegal income of top CIA agents. It's almost certain that FINCen has tweaked their algorithm specifically to bypass people like Ames. And we still haven't seen the drug connection in that case surface. But don't worry, it will. Head of anti-drugs operations for the last <N> years? Don't kid me... So much for 'checks and balances'. G