Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Obama is emasculating intelligence

Here's the first of what will be a long list of defense programs that will be either eliminated, crippled, or subverted to leftist causes by the Obama administration. Having recruited many of the same Carter and Clinton advisors to staff his cabinet and top bureau positions, Obama will surely do more to weaken the US than all the other leftists who have come ahead of him.

We can only hope that there are enough Reagan Republicans to keep this bunch from giving away our way of life.


FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

Obama is emasculating intelligence
By Dick Morris & Eileen Mc Gann

President-elect Barack Obama's new head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, Dawn Johnsen, called the legal reasoning which gave the president broad powers to authorize "rough" interrogation of terrorists "shockingly flawed?bogus?outlandish." She said it allowed "horrific acts" and demanded to know "Where is the outrage? The public outcry?" This is the person who will decide how to interrogate terrorists. If she errs on the side of weakening methods of questioning, there's no chance her boss, Eric Holder the new Attorney General, will reverse her. He approved of the Clinton/Reno "wall" preventing intelligence from finding out what criminal investigators had found out and took the lead in pardoning the FALN terrorists.

What is Obama thinking? How could he weaken so dramatically our protections against terrorism? Doesn't he realize that without warrantless FISA wiretaps we could never have uncovered the plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge (how could we have gotten a warrant for conversations about the bridge when we didn't yet know that al Qaeda had it in its sights?) Has he forgotten that we only found the name of the operative who was tasked with destroying the bridge because we subjected Kahlid Mohammed, the mastermind of 9-11, to "rough" interrogation techniques? Does he really mean to leave us vulnerable to terrorist attacks?
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