A Slow Burn Becomes a Raging Fire (Cuba spies despised Bush years...surprise)

Washington Post ^ | 6/7/09 | Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber

[LetMarch]

And it was impossible to Despise, hate, distain Bush without
dispising, hateing and distaining our nation, its election system, and marjority of the voters that elected President Bush, not once but twice!

[pnh102]

Pol Pot had a cruel but brilliant solution to this problem in Cambodia when he emptied the universities and forced the upper crust from the cities to the rural areas to fend for themselves.

If it was my call I'd have all the State Department employees who were Democrat hacks be shipped off to embassies and consulates in war zones. I'd even go as far as to open consulates in such places just to make it happen. :)

IMO that's even better than firing them!

[Melchior]

There are certain Top Secret “codeword” clearances that require periodic personnel review. It is a pro forma exercise in the State Department.

[paulycy]

The President is the best example of the veracity of my statement. Personal belief and anger trumps patriotism

And, ironically, the marxist leader's selfishness trumps the collective will.

[pnh102]

But to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary.

And liberals are surprised that we rightfully accuse them of having no loyalty to this country. This situation, as others have pointed out, as to be "the tip of the iceberg."

[sport]

obama will harvest their fortunes. It may or may not be legal, but he and his deciples will, in the near future, part them from their fortunes.

[Steel Wolf]

If this man was given such a high security clearance why was he not subjected to the same security measures as people in the CIA? The article says that he avoided the CIA because they require a lie detector test and the State Department does not

As someone who has the pleasure of submitting to the administrative waterboarding that is a polygraph every five years, I find our current system horribly flawed. Why? Because many people who also have access to this information do not have to submit, and further, are most often found to be the ones who leak information to the press. Or, in this case, worse.

I find the poly (and polygraphers) to be obnoxious, annoying, crude, and flawed. But for all the imperfections, it's a great sanity check against those who are truly up to something.

In all fairness, everyone that handles intelligence materials should have to submit. Including, especially, members of Congressional intel committees, their staffers, Department of State, and certain law enforcement positions.

I'd be the first to say that it sucks. Having spent quite a while in Army special operations, my background is a bit more colorful that most, and my poly is probably a bit more rocky, but if I need to play, certainly the big fish and the diplomats do as well. Otherwise, why bother? Both of these fools likely would have been caught years ago if we applied the same standard to all.

[trek]

"The CIA and the State Department seemed to have been racing neck and neck to the New York Times and the Washington Post and for the same motivation that this couple which spied on America for 30 years had, disdain for the Bush administration, hatred of America, unparalleled arrogance that they knew better than the American voters."

This is the key point. And one that confuses so many Americans. These elites do not hate America in the sense of an enemy like Bin Laden who wants to see the country physically destroyed. These elitists really hate the idea of American Liberty as understood at the time of the Founding. These are people who feel they should rule unfettered. And that liberty for the common man has denied them their birthright.

Traitors like this have been with us since the beginning. But they are now ascendant in a way not seen since Reconstruction.

[nathanbedford]

It is as though the Venona papers never confirmed that Alger Hiss and the rest of them were in fact traitors operating inside the State Department and at other levels of our government. Despite unimpeachable confirmation of the guilt of these leftists, the anti--anti-Communist forces remain ascendant.

When I was a kid a speech by Joe McCarthy in West Virginia electrified and nation with the mere allegation that there were communists in the State Department. The Venona papers proved much of it to be true. Now we have the revelation of spies operating for three decades and one scarcely detects a ripple in the public consciousness.

The triumph of the leftists is complete.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I wonder if googling the phrase “Useful Idiots” will properly turn up links to these spies in the future.

[nathanbedford]

If men like you who demonstrate their fidelity by their valor in the face of the enemy must submit to polygraph and other security investigations, surely it is not too much to ask of the pressed pants crowd.

[Ditter]

Sad story, these limousine liberals will not be able to “sail home”. “Home” being Cuba. It would serve them right to have to live out their days, not as one of Fidel’s elite but as a poor slave of his regime.

[nathanbedford]

There was a thread going this morning with over 100 replies to the question posed: "what motivates leftists at their core?"

I intended to add my thought that liberals are liberals because, as Ann Coulter says, "they would be God." They are in rebellion against God and will have nothing to do with the first two Commandments. This is the bedrock definition of arrogance and it has been known to the Judeo-Christian tradition for thousands of years.

At root, the leftist is the most arrogant creature abroad in the world and his arrogance cost 100 million lives in the last century. What is a mere hauty disregard for the American electorate in comparison?

[trek]

Well stated.

[wally_bert]

Or any commie-lib anywhere.

[Scotswife]

Do any of these pampered marxists ever take the time to meet with Cubans who risked their lives and climbed into those rickety boats?

Do they ever take the time to meet with Cubans who lost loved ones to Fidel and Che?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Oh crap! I missed the Control yard sale!
I bet Mr Big bought all the good stuff!

[DUMBGRUNT]

Something is not quite right about this affair.
How often has Castro discussed his ‘employees’ in public?
The guy has been retired for a few years and they just now got around to it?

[Gritty]

To rid the U.S. State Department of traitors would require a massive house cleaning.

So would today's White House. Starting at the very top.

[JimRed]

To rid the U.S. State Department of traitors would require a massive house cleaning.

Which can not now start for another 3 1/2 years!