The Deception Continues
The deception and misdirection continues.
How do you keep people from focusing on the results of your current actions? By keeping them focused on what was happening back when you were promising different results.
The latest assault on the previous administration is now hitting the news wires in the form of Congressional Democrat’s outrage at the lack of information shared by the CIA regarding secret plans to thwart al Qaeda. The operative words in the previous sentence are secret and plans.
After the 9-11 attacks, then President Bush authorized the CIA through a legal pronouncement known as a “finding” to proceed with an initiative to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives. After having identified al Qaeda as the perpetrators of the deadly attacks I find it not only logical but compulsory that the President and the CIA look at all options to bring this Muslim declared jihad back into the laps from which it came. But Democrats in Congress are now up in arms because funds were spent and possible training provided to carry out this initiative without prior Congressional approval. I only wish they were equally upset that al Qaeda carried out the attacks without first getting their consent.
The current CIA Director Leon Panetta repealed the initiative this past June and according to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee acknowledged that the plan was not properly vetted with Congress. While I believe this long time political hack turned CIA Director may have played into the hands of his Democrat masters by claiming the program was improperly vetted, I see his actions as being purely politically motivated rather than a true infringement of the Constitutional right of Congress to be informed.
The first key is the wording used stated that Congress was not “properly” informed. It has previously been made abundantly clear that Congress was informed by the CIA that all options were on the table and were being considered. It is not incumbent upon the CIA to inform a committee of media loving Congress members as to the exact details of any planned initiative until such a time as a workable plan is actually formulated and a course of action decided. It is imperative that any plan such as this be kept top secret and obviously the more people informed, particularly people who love to talk about things they know very little about, the better chance for a leak of information to the press and therefore to our enemies as well. Furthermore, as has been made abundantly clear by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress members have a very convenient memory when it comes to information that might prove to be controversial after the fact.
This initiative was approved in 2001 and cancelled on June 23rd of 2009. No action regarding the plan was taken. To that end, some of the possible actions included in the original initiative were dismissed as unattainable in the planning stages long prior to the new administration and director taking over.
What we are witnessing now is the Democrats desperate efforts to misdirect the American public’s attention so as to defuse any backlash for the dismal results of their reckless and ineffective actions. We are now staring into the face of a $3 trillion deficit with absolutely no economic improvement to show for it. Our troops are being relieved in Iraq by well trained Iraqi troops proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Bush plan in Iraq worked exactly as promised. The new age of détente and diplomacy that was promised by Obama as the cure to all our international woes has done nothing to ease tensions in the Middle East or with such rouge nations as Iran and North Korea. If anything the situations there have gotten worse, once again proving the Bush policies were exactly what the situation mandated.
The Democrats ranting about the need for a “Truth Commission” regarding waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques did not bring them the desired results and if anything began to seriously damage their credibility. You haven’t heard Nancy Pelosi mention waterboarding lately, have you?
This major brouhaha will run its course as well, with Congressional Democrats damning the Bush administration’s successful efforts to bring peace and safety back to our shores and an obedient Democratic hack Leon Panetta giving them all the ammo they need and further depleting our intelligence capabilities.
My only regret is that the CIA was unable to devise a satisfactory plan to bring some al Qaeda heads back on a pike.
