Democrats' War on the CIA; Another Obama "Ooops"

This just shows what happens when, as in the case of the Democrats, you start politicizing the safety and protection of American Citizens. Just last week the Democrats and their lemmings in the bloggosphere were doing tap dances over what we now know is faux political outrage by Leon Pannetta.

Read this (excerpt follows):

The Democrats’ War on the CIA Continues [Marc Thiessen]

Democrats on Capitol Hill have been indignant over the fact that the details of a top-secret CIA program apparently was not fully briefed to Congress. Within weeks of that program being brought to Congress’s attention, key details have now leaked to the news media — thus validating the original decision not to share the details with Congress in the first place.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the program which Democrats were so angry about turns out to be an effort “to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives.” Excuse me, but this is the Democrats’ idea of a scandal? Most Americans would not only expect, but demand, that the CIA do everything in its power to kill al-Qaeda operatives before they strike our country. Indeed, the Obama administration itself has reportedly escalated targeted killings of al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan using Predator and Reaper drones. These targeted killings are not assassinations — they are legitimate strikes against an enemy that has declared war on us and attacked us where we live.

That Congressional Democrats are outraged by this program speaks volumes about the state of their party on national security. The fact that the CIA was trying to kill al-Qaeda operatives should not be a point of outrage — it should be a point of pride.

With this latest leak, Congress has shown once again that it cannot be trusted with highly classified information,

Now with egg on their face will the progressive/liberal bloggers back up and re-think the jig they were dancing last week?

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