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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: John Carragher who wrote (119108)11/11/2003 7:34:02 AM
From: lorne  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Political terrorism
By Oliver North
November 09, 2003

...." Nearly all responsible politicians agree that our intelligence community desperately needs better ways of penetrating radical Islamist terror cells. Even those running for office acknowledge we are in a war in which young Americans are dying — a war in which the lack of good intelligence is our greatest liability.
Therefore, it seems the primary responsibility of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence should be to discern what needs "fixing" within our intelligence community and determine with urgency what resources are needed for those improvements. After all, the lives of young Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq — as well as the safety of U.S. citizens at home hang in the balance.
But this memorandum reveals that these goals are not even being considered by eight of the 17 members of the Senate's Intelligence Committee.
The Democrats who sit on one of the most sensitive and important bodies in our government have apparently decided that gathering, assessing and analyzing intelligence is less important than booting this president from office. "Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq," the memo states. In short, they have abandoned their responsibilities to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and countrymen and decided instead, to wage war against the president. "....

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