Posted on 12/12/2014 7:12:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Democratic Party is well on the way to restoring its reputation as weak on national security, not to be trusted with the nation’s safety. Senator Dianne Feinstein and the Democrat majority on the Senate Intelligence Committee who insisted on releasing their partisan report on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques (sometimes known as “torture”) have opened a Pandora’s Box.
Writing at Ricochet, Herbert Meyer, recipient of the nation’s highest intelligence medal for civilians, outlines in stark terms the sort of dilemma Feinstein’s report sets up for Democrats:
Let’s use what’s called the Ticking-Time-Bomb scenario to illustrate this point:
A terrorist group announces that it’s placed a nuclear device somewhere in San Francisco. They say it will detonate in 72 hours. The senior senator from California — that would be Dianne Feinstein, outgoing chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the former mayor of San Francisco — urges residents of her home town to remain calm and not panic. The senator adds that while her thoughts and prayers are with the people of San Francisco, she will remain at her post in Washington DC, about 2,000 miles away from the likely blast radius.
The next day CIA undercover agents in Yemen capture one of the terrorists. They ask him, politely, to tell them where the bomb is located. The terrorist remains silent. “Please tell us,” one of the CIA agents begs. “Surely you don’t want to turn one of the world’s most beautiful cities into a pile of radioactive rubble.” The terrorist replies, “Allahu Akbar, God is Great, Americans must die.”
Okay, Senator, at this point what do you want the CIA to do with this terrorist? Please don’t tell us — yet again — what you don’t want our agents to do. Tell us what you want them to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
““Don’t piss off your spooks” is generally an A#1 rule for politicians.”
I sure do hope they “return the favor” where Fineswine is concerned. Maybe outing her husband (Tricky Dicky Blum) and all his under the table deals with the government. Make is possible for this couple to go to their graves in poverty. Now that would be revenge.
One can only hope.
Let’s use what’s called the Ticking-Time-Bomb scenario to illustrate this point:
A terrorist group announces that it’s Kidnapped your children and grandchildren. They say they will be sold as sex slaves in 72 hours. We have one of the Terrorist’s in Custody.
Okay, Senator Feinstein, at this point what do you want the CIA to do with this terrorist? Please don’t tell us — yet again — what you don’t want our agents to do. Tell us what you want them to do.
Hits a little closer to home for the good senator.
‘I tend to think she was getting even with the CIA for something. “
I’m not so sure DiFi is that dumb. The CIA knows where the bodies are buried. As I posted elsewhere, since the Rats lost the Senate they may fear the CIA will expose Obama Administration treachery in Benghazi and elsewhere. Right now the Rats are just laying the groundwork to later claim that the CIA hates them when Benghazi etal blows up in their
faces.
Can’t disagree with your take.
Feinstein is a master of stepping in #2.
No, her husband would get special economic relief, sponsored by the Senator.
Hey...... it’s San Francisco...... who gives a damn
I have a better one. Same scenario but her daughter lives there and is due to give birth in a week.
“I tend to think she was getting even with the CIA for somehting...”
Yup. The CIA hacked her computer.
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