[publius911]

For all we know, freelance hackers and technomancers may be crashing these sites on purpose. Just wondering.

What's it like, down there in the White House Basement?

[jespasinthru]

Would be nice. But after you served your purpose, they’d probably shoot you in the head and bury you in the sub-basement of the Presidio.
I’m gonna miss Tom Clancey. If you read his novels, you will see that he had the inside scoop. He got it.