Mic did suck, although I couldn't tell it on the computer sound!
Sorry...I'll go back to the my other portable mic. I was on the road, and I'm always trying to find the easiest way to record. Apparently the easiest sounds sucky.
Tom, I'm gonna stand by my NG rant, not because I think you're wrong but because I fear precedent more than almost any other thing. If there hadn't been an outcry, some weasel in D.C. would have dutifully noted that the "public" didn't seem to mind a major intrusion into their rights. That would have been passed up through the ranks until some liberal scumbag read the report and said, "HMMMMMM...I wonder just how high we can turn up the temperature on the frog?" This has happened so many times in the past I can't even begin to count. The only thing these people fear is being dragged out from under their rocks into the sunlight.
So yes, the rant was overwrought, but I thought it needed to be overwrought because of who would ultimately be reading the reports on the exercise.
Michael B