Dodging A Bullet - (New Intel Bill; not safer, but not a disaster, either!)

OPINION JOURNALONLINE.COM ^ | DECEMBER 7, 2004 | BRENDAN MINITER

[CHARLITE]

The intel-reform bill may not make us safer, but Congress averted a disaster.

The sky isn't falling after all. Congressional leaders have reached a deal on reforming the intelligence community. Sen. Susan Collins has come around to Rep. Duncan Hunter's position on protecting the military chain of command. This deal not only props up the sky but also protects Congress from feeling it'll have blood on its hands should al Qaeda pull off another deadly attack inside the United States. What's more the we must do something crowd can go home now. Congress is doing what the 9/11 Commission wanted.

..... they tried to strip out the very provisions the White House wrote into the bill. But to understand what happened here and what near calamity it was, consider one of the final sticking points: protecting the chain of command. In the end, Ms. Collins was fighting to insert the intelligence czar somewhere between the president and secretary of defense and his combat commanders in the field. And if not for Mr. Hunter, she might have succeeded.

[bayourod]

"Set aside for a minute Mr. Sensenbrenner"

Stick a fork in him. He tried to blackmail the White House and Republican leadership by trying to hold an intelligence bill hostage to his anti-Hispanic laborers provision.

He wasn't man enough to admit that his real objective was not to deter terrorists, but to deter illegal laborers. But while he may fool some of the anti-immigrant crowd into believing that his proposal was for the purpose of deterring terrorism, the rest of us see through the veil.

He traded his honor for fifteen minutes of fame. His name will forever be viewed as are the names of Pat Buchanan, George Wallace and David Duke. A certified dead-ender.

[BlackbirdSST]

He traded his honor for fifteen minutes of fame. His name will forever be viewed as are the names of Pat Buchanan, George Wallace and David Duke. A certified dead-ender.

Only in the minds of the delusional, and the ones profiting from the criminal invaders, but I repeat myself. Blackbird.