And the fact is, it was simply a matter of the agency could not act and function without having the requisite number of board members.

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How can that legitimate, and indeed necessary, function of an American regulatory agency constitute inappropriate extraterritorial reach?

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Specter, to make the operations function the responsibility of a separate intelligence agency.

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Here's the legal part of the case: Democrats say McCain has violated campaign finance law and that he's getting away with it because the enforcement agency, the FEC, has not been able to function.

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Dismantling the entity that performed this function during the Cold War, the U.S. Information Agency, was just one of the precipitous and strategically portentous mistakes made in the heady days following the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

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Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.

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