Posted on 08/02/2004 7:08:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Per FNC, Bush OK's the 9/11 commission's recommendation to appoint a National Intelligence Director and create an Anti-Terrorism office.
That being said, I sure hope the person that gets the job is not a Sandy Berger type or Halfbright, but someone that has his/her OWN country's security in MIND 24/7 and is NOT a policy wonk or a political hack.
I feel safer already...sigh.
Watch as Kerry and Edwards skip the vote...
"I sure hope the person that gets the job is not a Sandy Berger type or Halfbright, but someone that has his/her OWN country's security in MIND 24/7 and is NOT a policy wonk or a political hack."
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!
Department of Homeland Security did not unite our intelligence agencies. CIA, DIA (Defense), and others were not included. They all work in the same arena and need to be separate IMHO from the rest of the Homeland Security in order to stay independent. FBI stayed separate as well from Homeland Security.
Putting all the Intelligence under the head of Homeland Security would be too much for anyone person to handle. The head of Intelligence needs to deal directly to the National Security Advisor IMO along with the Director of Homeland Security. Putting them under Homeland Security could possibly cause a delay in the President receiving vital information.
Rose Garden announcement of this at 11:20 today.
Our personal freedoms and the Constitution are no more worth the creation of a massive internal inteligence apparatus in lieu of the simple solution of eliminating the Islamic presence in America, than are the multiplicity of anti-drug laws in lieu of the solution of permitting committed adicts the priviledge of burning their brains out with drugs as cheaply as possible as long as they are permanently isolated from the mass of normal society whil;e doing so.
Bush is sowing the seeds of a future intelligence apparatus which can be used to control political thought in America and monitor people who disagree with the government - one which will be employed without scruples by inevitable future DemocRatic regimes.
Wasn't that why they created the Department of Homeland Security? It was supposed to fill that void.
We don't need another bureaucratic layer.
Remember Jamie Gorelick and 'the Wall'?????
We need less, not more agencies.
Yup, I think it will be Rudy. He has been very visible of late in countering the Dims positions. I think he will be rewarded.
Although McCain, as much as I think he is a loose cannon, might be the right move as well. Kerry could not argue that appointment.
Since he's both dead and not a U.S. citizen he'd vote DemonRAT.
What we really need is JOHN KERRY to be elected President, so that he can implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations!
The Bush team has been aware of the problems leading to 9/11 and that the commission would probably propose something along these lines. They have probably been evaluating the needs and ramifications of something like this for some time now. They knew it was coming and the timing works in there favor. They were probably just sitting back and waiting for the commission report as good timing for implimentation.
WAY TO GO, MR. PRESIDENT!!!
You have a talent for finding the dark cloud behind every silver lining.
Meds low again?
Regardless, it appears that this will "TAKE DOWN THAT WALL" which Ashcroft vehemently condemned during the hearings.
But how can that be? I didn't know we switch to a soviet model.
I hope there's some actual teeth in the recommendations and this is not just empty rhetoric. God knows it's about time for them.
$30 to FRC if it ain't Rudy
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