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"NSA's record of compliance with these rules has been poor," Judge John Bates wrote in another ruling, whose date remains unaccountably secret.

But work on aligning standards and rules has been sporadic.

And a set of its own rules has been developed.

Public comment on the rules has been encouraged.

Still, abiding by the relocation rules has been unsettling.

A fiscal compact, enshrining balanced-budget rules, has been negotiated and signed.

But six years on, compliance with those rules has been mixed.

Up to now, he said, enforcement of the rules has been lax.

The reaction to the new rules has been nearly unanimous: almost everyone is unhappy.

Ignorance of the rules has been an excuse used by some people in the past.

The investigation of Representative Charles Rangel for violation of Congressional fund-raising rules has been going on for two years.