Further Proof Democrats Value Power Over Security

Democrats Call NSA's Input To Senate Panel Inappropriate

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 13, 2006; Page A07

Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee are complaining that the National Security Agency has played politics in support of the secret program to intercept phone calls between alleged terrorists in the United States and abroad.

On July 27, shortly after most members of the committee were briefed on the controversial surveillance program, the NSA supplied the panel's chairman, Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), with "a set of administration approved, unclassified talking points for the members to use," as described in the document.

Among the talking points were "subjective statements that appear intended to advance a particular policy view and present certain facts in the best possible light," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) said in a letter to the NSA director.

The cleared statements included "I can say the program must continue" and "There is strict oversight in place . . . now including the full congressional intelligence committees," as well as "Current law is not agile enough to handle the threat posed by sophisticated international terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda" and "The FISA should be amended so that it is technologically neutral." FISA refers to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the current law.

Democrats are complaining because they don't want this program to continue. They seem to be against anything that the Bush Administration does simply because it is the Bush Administration. They continue to lie by calling it a "domestic spying" program, they fight against any effort to use clandestine tactics against our enemies, and they speak in words which sound more reasonable coming from Al Qaeda and Hizbollah leaders than from United States Congressmen.

It is readily apparent that Democrats in the Congress are the anti-American Party. They don't believe in freedom of speech, they believe in political correctness, they don't believe in capitalism, they believe in socialism, and they don't believe in victory, they worship at the alter of defeatism. I do question the patriotism of the Democrat Leadership and any who agree with them.

Of particular note is the way they collectively, under Senator Harry "the Nepotism King" Reid, "killed the Patriot Act." It is noteworthy because the Democrats were the first and most vocal proponents of the Patriot Act.

Ever since Tom Daschle, who in 1998 was on the verge of asking President Clinton to step down for the good of the country, decided that it would be better for the Democrat Party for him to attack the Republicans instead (Daschle's own admission, not something I have made up), there has been a steady march by the Democrat Party toward party loyalty and ascendency to power over national interests.

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