This Story Makes America Seem Like the Old Soviet Union

[clb09]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,7176956.story

This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of congested Tysons Corner in McLean, Va., hit a fiber-optic cable no one knew was there.

This part doesn't: Within moments, three black SUVs drove up, half a dozen men in suits jumped out, and one said, "You just hit our line."

Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn't say, recalled Aaron Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro Corporate Center. Georgelas assumed that he was dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was "black" wire -- a secure communications line used for some of the nation's most secretive intelligence-gathering operations.

[Bruno]

Wow and not surprised at the same time.

[Athan]

Wow and not surprised at the same time.

Ditto.

[Jordan]

Keep on cutting them.

We're just regulating them, can government not accept regulation of themselves?

[youngbuck]

Keep on cutting them.

We're just regulating them, can government not accept regulation of themselves?

Haha, good one.