National Security As A Priority

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Today's Wall Street Journal has the ongoing saga of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the CIA.  You may remember when the issue of waterboarding originally came up, Senator Pelosi denied knowing that it had been used.  She later changed her story to say that she had been informed, but only that it was being considered.  She then accused the CIA of lying when they stated that she had been briefed.  Well, the saga continues.

The latest dustup has to do with a letter written by Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, claiming that the CIA misled Congress about its activities after September 11, 2001.  Of course the letter was leaked to the press.  One of the instances that Mr. Reyes cited in his letter was a program that was discussed by the CIA but never carried out.  Mr. Reyes stated in his letter that Congress was not informed of the program (why would they be if the program was never implemented?).

The article states:

"House Democrats have set out to hobble the CIA and further handcuff the executive branch. Republicans, naturally, were frozen out. At Speaker Pelosi's insistence, gone would be the right of the President to limit disclosure of sensitive information to the so-called Gang of Eight -- the House Speaker and Minority Leader, Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chairmen and ranking Members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. This authority would pass to Congress. The bill would also expand disclosure requirements for all sorts of intelligence activities."

The Democrat party has made it clear that party politics is more important to them than national security.  Why in the world would we give them more of an opportunity to selectively leak information that is damaging to the national security of our country?

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