The damage is irreversable. al Queda looks wise to tell the other Arabs not to trust the U.S. - China is wondering what about their port operations in the U.S.
Big plus for al Queda and China and Iran and Hamas and North Korea. Big loss for intelligence operations, foreign policy and the war on terror.
It was never a fiscal issue to me - it was always about national security.
Ditto, as you well know.
I trust Frank Gaffney, Congressman King, Curt Weldon, and Duncan Hunter etc. on this. They are the Gold Standard on Defense and Security issues.
You have to go with who you can trust. We conservatives know we can trust them.
And the Administration only made its own credibility worse throughout the debacle... Even an 'in the tank' supporter Bill O'Reilly couldn't help commenting that the Administration's "claims they knew nothing about the deal didn't pass the smell test. And even if true, you don't say you didn't know. You just don't say that. It looks bad. It makes you look incompetent."