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2009-07-14 Home Front: Politix
With Pelosi’s blessing, Dems push ahead with probe of CIA
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Posted by gorb 2009-07-14 00:44|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 Since Queen Nancy and the Dems insist on walking into it, fair warning.
Posted by ed 2009-07-14 01:03||   2009-07-14 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The degree to which intel has been politicized by the left these past 8 years sickens me. But deranged zeal shown by the left in Congress is almost fascinating. It is not at all clear that holding hearings raking the former admin over the coals for considering targetted assassinations of terrorists -- which I believe most Americans assume we are doing -- is good politics for the Dems. Yet they cannot help themselves.

Bring it on, I say.
Posted by JAB 2009-07-14 01:07||   2009-07-14 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Why doesn't Congress just cut off all funding for the CIA? They've pretty much neutralized its effectiveness, so why don't they divert the money to bailing out minority broadcasters or something.
Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-14 07:33||   2009-07-14 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Please, PLEASE investigate Cheney!
Posted by A_Rovian_Disciple 2009-07-14 08:27||   2009-07-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 This has all the markings of a very stupid move. A regular Pelosi's Pandora's Box.
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-14 08:32||   2009-07-14 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Elsewhere, General Hayden has debunked this. It is pure political posturing.
Posted by Lagom 2009-07-14 09:50||   2009-07-14 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Gosh this is timely. Just when the nation's enthusiasm for President Barry's healthcare reform is weakening we get an attention grabbing side show. All the air cover you need to pass some more screwy legislation?
Posted by Don Vito Crolutle2068 2009-07-14 10:01||   2009-07-14 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I forget who called it, but I read a week ago that if the health care bill got sidelined due to bad reviews, that you could expect Bush hearings and probes to come forward.

Right on schedule.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-07-14 10:42||   2009-07-14 10:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey Nancy, ever hear the saying "Never whistle while you're pissing"?
Posted by mojo 2009-07-14 10:45||   2009-07-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#10 This is probably a good sign. Everytime she decides to stick her nose into something, it usually blows up in her face.
Posted by tu3031 2009-07-14 10:47||   2009-07-14 10:47|| Front Page Top

#11 As Darth Vader just said; the Dems and Nancy Pelosi need all the cover they can get (whether real or manufacttured) to push through their health care legislation. All hail Queen Nancy and King Bambi.
Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-14 10:55||   2009-07-14 10:55|| Front Page Top

#12 so why don't they divert the money to bailing out minority broadcasters or something

or like OMG, divert the money to pay for Michael Jackson's funeral so L.A. doesnt have to!! (sarcasm)
Posted by GirlThursday 2009-07-14 11:38||   2009-07-14 11:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe it is time to bring out the video of her getting briefed and FOIA the documents explaining who got riefed and when. Screw her.

She is due anyways.
Posted by newc">newc  2009-07-14 12:01||   2009-07-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

#14 What I really want Congress to do is to probe the economic collapse and the Federal Reserve. As if our esteemed {spit} Congresscritters will do anything that might really be of use to insure domestic Tranquility, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Or at least they could take lessions in reading comprehension.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-14 13:34||   2009-07-14 13:34|| Front Page Top

#15 The Dems have a death wish. They're trying to socialize the entire country, raise taxes 50-60%, kill incentive, bury health care, destroy small businesses, and enslave the American people. If that weren't bad enough, now they're taking on the country's second-most-important (after NSA) spy agency. Stupid, stupid, stupid. The CIA has a long memory, and are not afraid of taking on government at any level. I expect to see "leaked" reports of various scandals involving Leon Panetta, any Dem in Congress, and our "president" coming out of the woodwork in vast profusion. The next year or two are going to be quite "interesting".
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-07-14 15:40|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-07-14 15:40|| Front Page Top

#16 They may we live in interesting times.
Posted by GirlThursday 2009-07-14 19:04||   2009-07-14 19:04|| Front Page Top

#17 OldPatriot, I wonder. I had the same thought - it's, uh, kinda STUPID to take on the CIA, especially when your attack amounts to slander and has no merit whatsoever. Even reasonable people would be p***ed off.

But back to the principal "hook" for this whole thing, I believe Hayden or others had indicated there was a presidential finding on the proposed program. This means that Congress has, literally, "signed off" on something. This whole process, and that of general oversight by the two intel committees, make it extremely doubtful that there's a shred of merit to the incredible allegations about deceiving the Hill.

At least it was a few years back, when I was up there and very familiar with this process.

But let's not kid ourselves about the down-side for even the most insanely preposterous and risky Dem ploy - they'll pay no price whatsoever, regardless of what they do. There is nothing resembling what we used to call a press, the opposition is pretty much cowardly and inept, and most importantly the electorate is cretinized (I speak especially here about "educated," so-called high-information types).

Career-ending gaffes and outrages by high-profile Dems in the last 8 years are too numberous to list. Just one political generation ago (when I was in the middle of it), a single Durbin statement comparing US soldiers to Nazis, a single "the war is lost" statement by a Reid, anything close to Murtha's astounding public slander of Marines in an ongong capital case court martial - all would have marked the end of their careers, or at the least their demotion to second rank, in shame and ignominy.

And that's just off the top of my head. And don't forget we just elected a preposterously unfit and unimpressive affirmative action doofus who made campaign-killing gaffes about twice a day, for months. Not to mention having booby-trapped himself with years of insanely impolitic and radical nonsense (Wright, Ayers, etc) that would have until recently kept people off the county supervisors' board in most places in the US. The presidency? Absurd. (and thus the bumbling, farcical performance to date is little surprise)

Result? Nothing.

But, you say, look at Bambi's cratering poll numbers, the generic ballot, the GOP leading the donks on (gasp!) even Social Security confidence. Yeah, so what. That is 98% the result of ongoing economic problems. An (unlikely) uptick in the economy, even a brief recovery, and the numbers change dramatically - regardless of how idiotic, lawless, or puzzling the WH or Congress are.

When the mayor of New Orleans is re-elected, and the Bush administration is demonized, after a Katrina - then there is no doubt a perfect inversion of public understanding and a near-perfect hijacking of the public square by clueless partisans have occurred.

It's worse than no accountability - it's reverse accountability.

Anyway, will be fun to watch if the donks are dumb enough to stick their hands into this particular meatgrinder - but only in an inside-baseball sort of way. The disgraced, self-beclowned United States of America will not care.
Posted by Verlaine 2009-07-14 23:36||   2009-07-14 23:36|| Front Page Top

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