Posted by
TommyO on Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:08:49 PM
Copy of my e-mail to Quin Hillyer, editor of The American Spectator and Washington Examiner, 2/24/08:
"Read with interest, your latest on the FISA mess, along with Mark
Continetti in the WS, and, of course, Andy McCarthy.
I am severely disappointed in President Bush's response to this obvious
threat to our national security. In a word, he has lost the battle to
Speaker Pelosi by failing to hold the dhimmi's feet to the fire.
Since the dhimmis left Washington, as far as I can find, the President
has limited his comments on the matter to a press briefing on Friday
last and his radio address on Saturday, last. So much for urgency and
my personal safety. If this is so damn important, why the silence?
If, as the dhimmis maintain, there is no big deal, why all the noise in
the first place?
So, what is going on? Two possible answers:
A) The President has quietly continued the intercept programs at the
same level as before, or
B) The President does not have the stones to confront the Congress by publicly
continuing the program on the grounds of national security, executive
authority, etc, and suffering the probable move to impeach that would
invariably result.
If the answer is (A), would we not already have a leak from
NSA/CIA/FBI/State [pick one or all] in the NYT/WP?
If the answer is (B), which I believe to be the case, then the
President has lost the battle, and Pelosi et al have won. Expect, at
best, a watered down bill at odds with the Senate bill, especially on
the telecoms, that will probably stand up to a conference, thus putting
Bush in the veto position, but without the ammunition he needs, because
he allowed the program to lapse and cannot show any damage to the
security of the country as a result.
As an old SIGINT guy, i can tell you that he has all kinds of arrows in
the quiver that could be used to embarrass the dhimmis, and he should
have been on this every day the dhimmis were away, and let McC carry it
on right thru November.
Based on the silence from the White House, Republicans in the Senate
and House, and administration officials, with the exception of Mike
McConnell, why should the American people worry about this issue at
all. If it was so damn important, why didn't someone tell me?
What was that muslim pilots name in Minnesota, again? "