National security at stake
OK, time to play nationalist. But it's not playing games-- there's been enough of that.
Am I mistaken or I have I not seen anybody taking the matter of Goss and his lieutenant at the CIA being involved with prostitution and other salacious activities as a serious breach of security protocols? These guys have been dreadfully exposed to blackmail and coercion.
It occurs to me that the radical politicization of intelligence services feeds into this problem: there was obviously no line between partisan Republican shenanigans among Goss' former Congressional colleagues and the CIA. (This critique would be true of Democratic shenanigans, mutatis mutandis.) Negroponte's intelligence czar position doesn't help this; neither would appointing "what's probable cause?" Hayden to replace Goss.
Are there any genuinely patriotic Republicans out there? Do you wish to defend your country and the Constitution, or just your party's partying?
Am I mistaken or I have I not seen anybody taking the matter of Goss and his lieutenant at the CIA being involved with prostitution and other salacious activities as a serious breach of security protocols? These guys have been dreadfully exposed to blackmail and coercion.
It occurs to me that the radical politicization of intelligence services feeds into this problem: there was obviously no line between partisan Republican shenanigans among Goss' former Congressional colleagues and the CIA. (This critique would be true of Democratic shenanigans, mutatis mutandis.) Negroponte's intelligence czar position doesn't help this; neither would appointing "what's probable cause?" Hayden to replace Goss.
Are there any genuinely patriotic Republicans out there? Do you wish to defend your country and the Constitution, or just your party's partying?
posted by ChiTom | 11:40 AM
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The probable answer to your last question is "no."
And how sad is that, really?
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