Obama feckless politicization hurts security; Dems don't care and lie, to boot.

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Security Before Politics By Porter J. Goss 4/25/09
...CIA director ... our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. ...amnesia ...plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. ...In the fall of 2002, while... chairman of the House intelligence committee, senior members of Congress were briefed on the CIA's "High Value Terrorist Program," including ..."enhanced interrogation techniques" ... an ongoing subject...Today, ...slack-jawed...that members claim to have not understood...or that..."waterboarding" ...never mentioned...hard for ...common sense to imagine ...a member of Congress can forget...perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience....It is my recollection that:-- The chairs and the ranking minority members...were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating ...-- We understood what the CIA was doing.-- We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.-- We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.-- On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.... not single objection from my colleagues....now reveal filed "memorandums for the record" ...quietly filed away in case...political winds shifted...CIA has been pulled into the center ring before. ... a hollowed-out service of diminished capabilities. ... our intelligence officers will soon resort to wordsmithing cables...while opportunities...are lost....we cannot succeed unless we have good intelligence. Trading security for partisan political popularity will ensure that our secrets are not secret and that our intelligence is destined to fail us.
... was director of the CIA from September 2004 to May 2006...chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004. ***Goss peculiarly qualified to opine.Periodically the government decimates American intelligence capability: cryptography was abandoned in the 1920s because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail" ( forgetting that developing enemies were not gentlemen ); the Church committee in the 1970s set back intelligence operations almost irreversibly; we're due, I suppose, for another irresponsible ( invariably leftist-liberal) effort to reduce our capabilities and Obama and the Democrats are providing it.***