Posted on 05/23/2006 11:31:59 AM PDT by neverdem
Enough already! It's harmful enough that ideological conflict and partisan politics are preventing this country from solving its long-term challenges on health care, fiscal policy and energy. Now it's threatening our national survival.
I do not exaggerate. Bush hatred has reached such intensity that CIA officers and other bureaucrats are leaking major secrets about anti-terrorism policy and communications intelligence that undermine our ability to fight Islamic extremism.
Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures.
In Congress and in much of the media, the immediate reaction to news that the National Security Agency was intercepting international terrorist communications was not to say, "Good work - and how can we help?" Rather, it was to scream about a "domestic spying" scandal, as though Richard Nixon were back in the White House and tapping the telephone of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
And the reaction has been much the same to USA Today's story last week that the NSA "has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans" in a program that "reaches into the homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, reacted by asserting that "these are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything but we're just going to collect their phone information for the heck of it. Where does it stop?"
Similarly, Newsweek's cover this week blares "Spying On Your Calls" - no question mark used - and implies that the...
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Mort Kondracke: Ideological Conflict Menaces U.S. Ability to Fight Terrorism
Even Mort Kondracula can be right once in a while.......
ping
If just one so called journalist is prosecuted for publishing confidential material, all this hub-bub will come to a screeching halt...........
They too, are working against us in the War on Terror, though in a more subtle fashion. If they get their way, Bush and the Republicans will be 'punished' and the party of treason will be in charge of our national security.
If things don't calm down around here, our nation may well be at risk.
Putting the nation at risk through hatred of the President PING.
Although property appraisers keep a much closer watch on people already!
Aw, c'mon - Mort is such a lovable old curmudgeon. He and Fred are my favorite grumpy old men ;-)
Hey, now we are posting left wing Democrats.
If there is sucha thing as a "Flaming Moderate" he's it.........
You confuse hatred with disgust.. You're confused..
Wake up or BOHICA..
Big Bump.
You, however, I see only as irrelevant.
(And I don't know what your acronym means, but I'm sure it is insulting, seeing as that's the only thing you know how to be).
Let's hear it for traitors taking over the country, eh hoser? I'm sure that'll help your 'disgust' at the President go away.....
The hatred group are the ones who do politically stupid things because they hate the President and can't control themselves. These would include Pelosi announcing she has no agenda except investigating events of four years ago. Why doesn't she just annouce: "we have no agenda, no plan". Next is Conyers who probably cost the Dims a shot at capturing the House when he pre-announced his rush to impeachment. I'd also include Durbin and Murtha in this group. They have no operational principle except hatred of GWB. They disgrace themselves and their offices without a second thought in the process.
And when the Rats resume control of the government they will use those very same measures they criticized. To protect themselves politically should terrorism occur here. And maybe they will use those measures to compormise their political enemies. Anyone remember President (in waiting) Hillary's FBI Files?
Terrorists don't use landlines. Buy a clue, Mort.
IIRC, I've only seen Kondracke as being slightly left of Fred Barnes on "The Beltway Boys," on Foxnews.com . All the other times, he's well to the right of Juan Williams, Marla Liasson, Margaret Carlson, etc. Pick your liberal. He's the quintessential moderate, aka centrist. On this issue, he nails the left.
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