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To: FairOpinion

Only the bit about consultation with the committee was mentioned on the Foxnews Sunday show.


12 posted on 07/09/2006 11:27:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Only the bit about consultation with the committee was mentioned on the Foxnews Sunday show.

You mean "complaints" about non-consultation. After Hastert's hissy-fit over the Jefferson search, it's increasingly difficult to take any congress critter's complaints about Administration national security policies at face value.

Hoekstra complains about politicization of the CIA, and the resultant leaks on one hand, and the WH failure to inform the Congress of some programs on the other. He fails to mention the very strong possibility of some of these leaks originating in Congress (Jay Rockefeller, where are you?) He admits the glaring weakness of the CIA (for which Congress has oversight), but complains that the NID has appropriated too much of the disfunctional CIA's responsibilities.

Is Hoekstra genuine in his concerns, or is the goal to deflect attention from the failings of the good ol' boys club in an election year?

It's become almost impossible to judge where political grandstanding ends and sincere concern for national security begins.

47 posted on 07/10/2006 4:39:13 AM PDT by browardchad
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