Comments on: High Security Officials Speak Out: Dems are Wrecking CIA

By: barker13

barker13 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:28:11 +0000

Re: Balconesfault // Jul 27, 2009 at 4:57 pm –

On points… score one for Balc.

(*WINK*)

BILL

* Don’t get me wrong, I despise Holder… I’m just saying that as a matter of Constitutional theory… Balc is absolutely correct.

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:57:27 +0000

“President Obama seems unable to control his attorney general ”

As I understand the Attorney General’s job … isn’t this a good thing?

By: mdsagemello

mdsagemello — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:25:18 +0000

Mdsagemello wrote in support of Elise Cooper Editorial:
Concise answer:
No CIA did not break the Law.
CIA are Honorable Men of United States of America, CIA are Honorable Women of United States of America, Sworn in as Public Servants to serve in CIA, again from what I have read
nothing has been compromised and nothing has been done illegal. Until I read something illegal has been done, this is my Final Answer. Peace. Thank you for reading.
I Promised.
“Did the CIA break the law by omitting to brief Congress about a program still in the planning stage – and that never carried out any operations?’

By: jreb

jreb — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:56:11 +0000

It is insightful to look back in time for perspective on present events. In looking back, I note an article written by Stephen Knott, November 4, 2001 titled “Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA”. Please note that this article was written short of one month past the horrific attack on the US by Islamic terrorists.

“One utterly predictable response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were calls by members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to ‘shake-up’ the Central Intelligence Agency…It would be shortsighted for the intelligence committees to place the blame for this latest intelligence failure exclusively on the CIA’s management. If the committees are interested in genuine reform, they would do well to begin by acknowledging their own culpability in crippling the agency. Under both Democratic and Republican chairmen, the intelligence committees have transformed the CIA into the functional equivalent of the Department of Agriculture, preventing the agency from acting in a shrewd and, as is sometimes necessary, ruthless manner. Any ‘reform’ is doomed to fail if Congress continues to play its role as a partner, if not outright ‘owner,’ in the management of the CIA.”

“.. The sad reality is that a CIA operative with any hope of infiltrating a terrorist cell would need to demonstrate his bona fides in any number of reprehensible ways. These are unpleasant thoughts to contemplate, and they certainly do not fit our conception of the way the world ought to work. But America cannot have it both ways — it cannot expect to deter an Osama bin Laden and keep its hands clean at the same time. Presidents need options short of war to handle this type of threat.”

“.. This most democratic branch of government (Congress) is simply not designed to make the tough and often distasteful decisions that are required of nations competing in the international arena.”

How soon we forget.

By: Oneon1isto

Oneon1isto — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:48:09 +0000

So…the Democrats (Congress) are concerned about a program that is loosely connected to the whole wiretapping hullabaloo from last administration. Am I wrong in seeing this as part of the inspection into whether the CIA overstepped their bounds? God forbid the CIA get checked into occasionally.

NOT TO MENTION the Obama administration has been continually derided by the lefties for taking pro-CIA stances concerning torture and the wiretapping scenarios.

The quote from the sitting Republican is meaningless in context, and your other unnamed informants merely trot out the same rhetoric you hear from any time a bureaucrat is asked to pony up some information on what they’re doing.

National security. Give me a break. The meetings will continue to be behind closed doors with only a few members privy to the information. It’s Congress’ job. Let them do it.

By: barker13

barker13 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:16:11 +0000

“NewMajority this week asked a series of high-level officials and former officials for their reaction.”

(*HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER*)

Of COURSE “NewMajority did.” I mean, when I think news I think New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, AP… and of course… New Majority.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

“A former senior official in the Bush White House who must be unnamed…”

Of course! (*CHUCKLE*) “Must” remain unnamed. Got it!

Elise. Serious comment: When you start off with the Alice in Wonderland imaginary scenario that you’re a reporter and that NM is… er… “Politico” (only different!)… it distracts from whatever the meat of your… er… story… may be.

Try to keep the delusions of grandeur in check. (*SHRUG*)

BILL