{"id":1017,"date":"2009-07-20T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2009-07-20T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T07:40:02","slug":"national_security_as_a_politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"National Security As A Political Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07202009\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/intelligence_games_180264.htm\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;has an article by Representative Peter Hoekstra (R- Mich.), the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence<em>, <\/em>addressing what has happened to the bi-partisan approach to national security.<\/p>\n<p>To review a bit of history, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that she was not informed of &#8216;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; used on captured terrorists.&nbsp; When presented with the evidence from the CIA that she was briefed, she said that they had not made it clear that the techniques had been used.&nbsp; She later said that the CIA routinely mislead Congress.&nbsp; The ruckus that has followed is an attempt to restore her credibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Post, this is where the situation stands:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p jquery1248087899399=\"6\"><em>&#8220;Democrats are claiming they were lied to by the CIA about a program and gleefully charge that then-Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the agency to not brief this program to Congress. <\/em><\/p>\n<p jquery1248087899399=\"7\"><em>CIA Director Panetta refused to back the allegation that Cheney gave such an order. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden flatly denied that he&#8217;d ever been instructed not to brief Congress. Now Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has also distanced himself from these over-the-top allegations by House Democrats.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" jquery1248087899399=\"7\">This is really not a good place for the Democrats to be.&nbsp; The attacks on the Intelligence Community have not been good for our national security.&nbsp; When intelligence is at the mercy of party politics, nothing positive gets done to help our country protect or defend itself against attack.&nbsp; The leaks of classified information have made the job of the CIA more difficult, and I can understand why the CIA might be hesitant to brief Congress on every program it considers but does not carry out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post&nbsp;has an article by Representative Peter Hoekstra (R- Mich.), the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, addressing what has happened to the bi-partisan approach to national security. To review a bit of history, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}