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• n  retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers

• Are we supposed to forget about Cheney, Rummy, Feith, and Wolfowitz and "stovepiping"?.

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• Laurie Garrett in AllAfrica.com
  Stovepiping tends to reflect the interests and concerns of the donors, not the recipients,wrote Garrett, adding that "efforts to combat HIV/AIDS have so far managed to bring more money to the field, but have not always had much beneficial...
• Seymour Hersh in CBS News
  Hersh says in his forward: "I have tried, in this book, to describe some of the mechanisms used by the White House-the stovepiping of intelligence, the reliance on Ahmad Chalabi, the refusal to hear dissenting opinions, the difficulty of getting...