Frivolous: The 2008 Intelligence Authorization Bill is headed to a House vote within the next week or two. If it is signed into law, it will direct our intelligence agencies to turn away from fighting terrorism, rooting out spies, and gathering national security intelligence. Instead, it will require agencies to engage in a 30-year projection of the effects of... climate change.
Willfully ignoring 9/11, the plot to destroy UK airliners over American cities with liquid bombs, and the recent Fort Dix conspiracy, Democrats intead call for the study of climate change. The Junior Party is willing to divert our most valuable intelligence resources from their anti-terrorism efforts for reasons that are unserious -- at best.
What could be the true motivation for wasting our intelligence resources in such an egregious fashion? Your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps George Soros knows the answer.
Magnanimous: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) offered his perspective of the fatally flawed Intelligence bill in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Put simply, the Democrats under the Clinton administration have gone down this road before.
Clinton's first Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, directed intelligence agencies to devote equal efforts to "environmental concerns and national security." The result was an outrageous waste of resources as intelligence analysts reported upon schools of fish and volcano activity. In the mean time, the Jihadi terrorist threat grew, inexorably and remorselessly, under the Clinton administration's watch.
In August of 1996, Osama Bin Laden issued his Declaration of War against the Americans while Al Gore was presumably examining Excel spreadsheets detailing air pollution data. Last week, Ayman al-Zawahiri reiterated his intent to use Iraq as a base of operations for further attacks against the West. Some things never change.
Reportedly, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were too busy measuring the tidal surge to respond.
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