Posted on 04/25/2009 3:29:37 PM PDT by Altera
Security Before Politics (Obama Crossed the Red Line, Publication of CIA Memos)
By Porter J. Goss Saturday, April 25, 2009
Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. We can't have a secret intelligence service if we keep giving away all the secrets. Americans have to decide now.
A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, members of the committees charged with overseeing our nation's intelligence services had no higher priority than stopping al-Qaeda.... while I was chairman of the House intelligence committee, senior members of Congress were briefed on the CIA's "High Value Terrorist Program," including the development of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what those techniques were...
Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed....
I fear that in the years to come this refrain will be heard again: once a threat -- or God forbid, another successful attack -- captures our attention and sends the pendulum swinging back. There is only one person who can shut down this dangerous show: President Obama.
Unfortunately, much of the damage to our capabilities has already been done. It is certainly not trust that is fostered when intelligence officers are told one day "I have your back" only to learn a day later that a knife is being held to it. After the events of this week, morale at the CIA has been shaken to its foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
These pictures are all you need to see. Makes the case. We elected someone who is not loyal to our country, but is loyal to his boyhood religion. Thanks MSM. This will bite you as well.
you’re right! maybe he’ll get infected with swine flu! and die! as will his family! then we’ll have Joe Biden as president! hooray! thank you Jesus!
shaking my head, here...leftists LOVE people like you.
Good! I’m glad when leftists don’t like me. It means I’m right.
:)
The UnAmerican Democrat Party has been aiding and abetting the enemy for 8 YEARS RUNNING!
And now you speak up? After their leader is elected to bring down the United States?
You are just another wuss.
you misunderstood, Toots....
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