Continuing the theme of President Pantywaist, former CIA Director Porter Goss shows his displeasure at what the Obama admin and the Congressional Democrats Defeatocrats are attempting to pull: Security Before Politics
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. In the fall of 2002, 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. This was not a one-time briefing but an ongoing subject with lots of back and forth between those members and the briefers.
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; or that specific techniques such as “waterboarding” were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.
For Democrats, political power comes before all else. If they needed to throw abortion on demand under the bus for power, they would do it in a heartbeat. I’m sure that Goss understands that this is simply business as usual for the Democrats, and, while he may be slack-jawed, he is surely not surprised in the least. Or, perhaps he is an idealist, and expects better out of people elected to Congress.
The days of fortress America are gone. We are the world’s superpower. We can sit on our hands or we can become engaged to improve global human conditions. The bottom line is that we cannot succeed unless we have good intelligence. Trading security for partisan political popularity will ensure that our secrets are not secret and that our intelligence is destined to fail us.
With Obama and the Donkeys running things, including their mouths, expect our intelligence to fail us, much like it did on 9/11. Interestingly, Conservative dissent, which is now considered un-patriotic, is meant to increase American power and security. Democrat dissent, supposedly patriotic, according to them, is meant to reduce American power and security.
Others, via Memeorandum: The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, Firedoglake, JustOneMinute, TalkLeft, Emptywheel, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Power Line, NO QUARTER, TigerHawk, Commentary, The New Ledger, Newshoggers.com, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Betsy’s Page, protein wisdom, Macsmind, PrairiePundit, Neptunus Lex and The Huffington Post
