Comments on: Will Congress Allow Us To Fill The Intel Gap? http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/ The latest in policital news and the war in Iraq Mon, 1 Dec 2008 21:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dan (The Infidel) http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31950 Dan (The Infidel) Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:58:37 +0000 http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31950 Well maybe they were so sensitive because of all the damned leaks comming from dimwits such as Patrick (Leaky) Leahy? This sort of thing brings up images of 1984 and George Orwell. No...Not to Republicans...to Democrats... The MSM and the DailyKos kids are constantly ranting about nonsensical scenarios that do not exist. Yet when the Dems are in charge of the program, everything is hunky-dory. The political power game continues to erode our national security capabilities and places our nation at further risk of another 9-11. I want someone other than Lahey and the New York Times in charge of National Security. And I would like to see the leakers put in jail. I would further like to see the idiotic 1978 Congressional hearings recommendations that were adopted abolished. It is time to untie the hands of the NSA and the CIA. We lost a great deal of our mideast intelligence gathering capability with the loss of our Lebanon Bureau chief in 1983. Bill Buckley was an outstanding covert operator and had every contact that we had in the middle east in his possesion. We lost that in the torture rooms of Syria and Iran.... And we are further losing capability over this unecessary paranoia comming from the left. Unfortunately, emotion over substance or facts plays better in the media, than does the need for a robust national security program. Hardware issues notwithstanding, Congress will never do the right thing. They are too busy playing head games and investigating non-crimes to get down to the business of protecting the country. To those that remain paranoid, I say get back on your meds. Well maybe they were so sensitive because of all the damned leaks comming from dimwits such as Patrick (Leaky) Leahy?

This sort of thing brings up images of 1984 and George Orwell. No…Not to Republicans…to Democrats…

The MSM and the DailyKos kids are constantly ranting about nonsensical scenarios that do not exist. Yet when the Dems are in charge of the program, everything is hunky-dory.

The political power game continues to erode our national security capabilities and places our nation at further risk of another 9-11.

I want someone other than Lahey and the New York Times in charge of National Security. And I would like to see the leakers put in jail.

I would further like to see the idiotic 1978 Congressional hearings recommendations that were adopted abolished. It is time to untie the hands of the NSA and the CIA.

We lost a great deal of our mideast intelligence gathering capability with the loss of our Lebanon Bureau chief in 1983.

Bill Buckley was an outstanding covert operator and had every contact that we had in the middle east in his possesion. We lost that in the torture rooms of Syria and Iran….

And we are further losing capability over this unecessary paranoia comming from the left.

Unfortunately, emotion over substance or facts plays better in the media, than does the need for a robust national security program.

Hardware issues notwithstanding, Congress will never do the right thing. They are too busy playing head games and investigating non-crimes to get down to the business of protecting the country.

To those that remain paranoid, I say get back on your meds.

]]> By: PhilNBlanx http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31960 PhilNBlanx Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:39:19 +0000 http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31960 "The gap is also partly a result of administration fumbling over legal authorization for eavesdropping by U.S. agencies. Two officials familiar with the controversy, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive material, said that had the administration initially been candid about its antiterror surveillance plans, it could have worked with Congress years ago to tweak the FISA laws to account for the technological changes. One of the officials said the administration’s secretiveness had, in this case, created problems for antiterrorism efforts." No the gap is mainly a result of Dem whining about supposed domestic surveillance with the sole aim of discrediting the Bush administration. The adminsistration could have worked with Congress years ago to tweak the FISA laws but there was no need. Nobody was concerned until the Dems took control of Congress and started their smear campaign through their demedia accomplices. And Dan couldn't be more correct. The Bush administrations supposed "secretiveness" (prudence would be a better term) was necessary based on the traitorous NY Times, WaPo, (and yes) Newsweek not to mention Dem members of Congress only too willing to publicize our national security measures. This Newsweek article is nothing more than a CYA by Newsweek. “The gap is also partly a result of administration fumbling over legal authorization for eavesdropping by U.S. agencies.
Two officials familiar with the controversy, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive material, said that had the administration initially been candid about its antiterror surveillance plans, it could have worked with Congress years ago to tweak the FISA laws to account for the technological changes. One of the officials said the administration’s secretiveness had, in this case, created problems for antiterrorism efforts.”

No the gap is mainly a result of Dem whining about supposed domestic surveillance with the sole aim of discrediting the Bush administration.
The adminsistration could have worked with Congress years ago to tweak the FISA laws but there was no need. Nobody was concerned until the Dems took control of Congress and started their smear campaign through their demedia accomplices.
And Dan couldn’t be more correct. The Bush administrations supposed “secretiveness” (prudence would be a better term) was necessary based on the traitorous NY Times, WaPo, (and yes) Newsweek not to mention Dem members of Congress only too willing to publicize our national security measures.
This Newsweek article is nothing more than a CYA by Newsweek.

]]> By: Lamplighter http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31988 Lamplighter Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:24:55 +0000 http://patdollard.com/2007/07/will-congress-allow-us-to-fill-the-intel-gap/#comment-31988 When one of the Bill Clinton appointees to the CIA/NSA leaked to the NYT in 2005 the existence of the warrantless wiretaps, Dem congresspersons had known all the details, had been briefed. But they started crying foul to appease their looney left base. The dem head of intelligence knows that if an attack occurs, he's going to get the blame, so he's scurrying trying to cover his rear right now. The MSM constantly puts up Jeffrey Toobin or some other left lawyer to cry about the "illegal warrantless wiretaps" and how the average American's rights are being eroded. Yet, the Pres. has always had executive power to use for intelligence gathering, especially in wartime. The only Americans whose rights are being eroded are Toobin's traitorous friends who want to leak national security secrets penalty free. They are afraid they are going to get caught on a warrantless wiretap doing so. When one of the Bill Clinton appointees to the CIA/NSA leaked to the NYT in 2005 the existence of the warrantless wiretaps, Dem congresspersons had known all the details, had been briefed. But they started crying foul to appease their looney left base. The dem head of intelligence knows that if an attack occurs, he’s going to get the blame, so he’s scurrying trying to cover his rear right now. The MSM constantly puts up Jeffrey Toobin or some other left lawyer to cry about the “illegal warrantless wiretaps” and how the average American’s rights are being eroded. Yet, the Pres. has always had executive power to use for intelligence gathering, especially in wartime. The only Americans whose rights are being eroded are Toobin’s traitorous friends who want to leak national security secrets penalty free. They are afraid they are going to get caught on a warrantless wiretap doing so.

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