What do you get when a Democrat majority decides to do a hit piece on the CIA? When it selectively interviews/does not interview key people who might provide the full story, and makes sure to issue the resulting “report” just weeks before becoming the minority party – in no small part because voters are so fed up with exactly this kind of behavior?
You get a sack of excrement that is sure to warm the hearts of our enemies, and our hard left (often indistinguishable from one another) with a credibility level hovering between 1% and zero.
There are many commentaries making the above points. But
the one I would like to excerpt from was written by former Governor, Senator and lifelong Democrat Bob Kerrey – who makes it clear, right at the start, that there is a good likelihood his speaking honestly about the “report” could make him a pariah in his own party.
Here is some of his commentary (but be sure to use the link I\’ve provided and read it all).
I regret having to write a piece that is critical of the Democratic members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Most of them are former colleagues and friends. I hope they will remain friends after reading this.
For eight years I served on this committee. I know how difficult and important the work of providing tough and fair oversight of our nation\’s $50 billiontop-secret intelligence network.
I will wait until I have fully read and considered Tuesday\’s report to enter the debate over whether the CIA handled interrogation of detainees in an appropriate manner. Thanks to the 2005 and 2006 efforts of Senator John McCain I do not have to wait to be certain our interrogation policies and procedures are aligned with our core values.
I also do not have to wait to know we are fighting a war that is different than any in our country\’s past. The enemy does not have an easy to identify and analyze military. In the war against global jihadism, human intelligence and interrogation have become more important, and I worry that the partisan nature of this report could make this kind of collection more difficult.
I do not need to read the report to know that the Democratic staff alone wrote it. The Republicans checked out early when they determined that their counterparts started out with the premise that the CIA was guilty and then worked to prove it.
Thank you Mr, Kerrey. Thank you for showing the courage to say what needed to be said.
And shame of shame to the partisan fools in your party who apparently consider it more important to score a few political points than to stand up for their country.
I know they did it for the voting public to notice. And I hope, fervently, that this is exactly what the voting public does – in a wholly different way than they intended.
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UPDATE: Want to see a group of videos in which the findings of this “report” are debunked? Then
click here.
What an immense disgrace issuing such an overtly partisan hit piece on our own intelligence sector is. And, as mentioned about his appallingly biased interview with former CIA Director Michael Hayden, what a ponderous fool NBC anchor Brian Williams is.
