Posted on 07/10/2009 11:32:33 AM PDT by pabianice
Breaking on Fox.
Looks like Pelosi has won and she is about to beat-down on Panetta and the CIA. Obama is certain to gut our INTEL capabilities.
I wonder if Pelosi and Al Qaeda put Panetta up to this.
bourne identity?
The count down to the next terror attack is getting shorter...
Bush and Cheney to be arrested for Fox’s next breaking news update?
What does this have to do with her claim of not being breifed on waterboarding?
This would mean it was kept from the Republican led Congress as well.
Back around 1975, Senator Frank Church held hearings on the operation of the CIA and found that -- HORRORS -- taxpayer money was being paid to foreign citizen snitches who had CRIMINAL RECORDS for vital human, on-the-ground intel on the activities of those who were planning the destruction of this country. Church commented at one session that "Gentlemen do not read other gentlemens’ mail." Interesting how Church and his fellow Dimocraps viewed men who would destroy America “gentlemen.” Glad that a**hole didn't serve during the run-up to WWII. (Although he may have handled the "delayed" communication to Pearl Harbor that the Japanese were on the way!)
When he became president, Jimmy Carter fully supported and enforced the Church Amendment. The sorts of people who consort with -- and, more importantly, get cozy with -- the leaders of terrorist organizations are not normally choir boys. Church moved the legislature to PROHIBIT any US funds going to these potential informants. Since it can take upwards of 20 years for these guys to move close enough to the top to be seriously valuable, we had virtually NO humintel on bin Laden's plans for 9-11!
While there are still Church-like imbeciles (Reid, Pelosi, et come to mind) at the levers of power here, I THINK the law has been changed.
While the NSA wiretaps and eavesdrops on US citizens HERE, isn't it comforting to know that in just 15 or 20 years we may be able to thwart a plan hatched THERE for some future 9-11 with information gathered THERE.
Now our guys are required to MERANDIZE enemy combatants NOT wearing uniforms and displaying NO recognizable military patches, etc., etc., all of which, de facto, removes them from the protections afforded under the Geneva Convention. In past conflicts, the Geneva Convention permits the capturing forces to shoot these guys on the spot. Of course, any trooper caught doing that would be up on charges in the morning.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
The morons now “leading” (and I use that term very loosely) the United States have finally achieved something I thought impossible: They’ve tied BOTH our hands behind our backs. They will get MILLIONS of us KILLED before they are removed from office – hopefully in 2010 and 12.
“Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.”
Right after that they learned that it's cool to leak national security secrets to the New York Times for the purpose of embarrassing a Republican president.
The CIA had better out B. Hussein’s birth certificate and fast.
They are not even "leading." They are hiding in their ivory towers telling everyone else what to do.
Project Treadstone?
Nah, old news. They’re on to “Black Briar” now.
When Leon speaks under oath, I might believe him. Second hand is just that.
Panetta was stuned with a top-secret beeber-like object.
Wow is he ticked off.
Maybe make more efficient, not gut...
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