Democrats' Secret Weapons

Investor's Business Daily ^ | Nov. 24, 2006 | IBD

[FairOpinion]

Intelligence: Senate Democrats are focusing their new powers on one thing above all else: wrenching as many national security secrets as possible from this White House and using them for political assassination.

Giving Leahy and his staff secrets would, quite simply, be a security risk. Since the 1980s, Leahy's nickname inside the Beltway has been "Leaky Leahy" because of his willingness to provide the press with juicy secrets to be used against Republican presidents.

"The American people," Leahy wrote in a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, "deserve to have detailed and accurate information about the role of the Bush administration in developing the interrogation policies and practices that have engendered such deep criticism around the world."

Wrong. What the American people deserve from our government is not kowtowing to foreign criticism, but protection from terrorism. That is something President Bush has done to perfection — and Democrats seem willing to sacrifice protection in their crusade to destroy this presidency.

[bushfamfan]

All Demonrats are jailbait.

[defenderSD]

Bush already said that we don't torture people, so then the public has no need to know the details of our interrogation methods, which Leahy obviously wants to use entirely as a political weapon against Republicans. For national security reasons, it's also important that terror suspects do not know the details of our interrogation methods so that they cannot prepare mentally for interrogations. In response to this request, Bush can say that we don't use torture and then classify these documents and prevent their release and their misuse in a purely political witch hunt.