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2006-05-26 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tu3031 2006-05-26 10:43|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If a certain General/Director needs an axe, I could help that someone out.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-26 10:54|| 2006-05-26 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 During Thursday night's debate, Sen. Ron Wyden (news, bio, voting record), D-Ore., said the warrentless wiretapping program raised "serious questions about whether the general is the right person to lead the CIA,

Yes, I agree.... maybe he should BE PRESIDENT !

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-26 11:06|| 2006-05-26 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I watched some of the hearings and wanted to slap Wyden everytime he opened his mouth n'tell him that Senators should at least make an attempt to not act like a child.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-26 11:18|| 2006-05-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Before his election to the Senate in 1996, he served 15 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senator attended the University of California at Santa Barbara on a basketball scholarship before receiving his B.A. with distinction from Stanford University. He received a J.D. degree from the University of Oregon School of Law and taught gerontology at several Oregon universities.

Any questions?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-26 11:24|| 2006-05-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 My post at think progess:
Hey guys, Hayden got confirmed this morning, how come this site hasn't been shut down and most of you are not in Gitmo? Maybe he is going to wait until Tuesday? Oh well you all have a nice Memorial Day weekend and think of all those fascists that served so you can bitch and whine WITHOUT getting killed, maimed, or imprisoned. Quick quiz:
Who has more Courage?
A) Jean Rohe
B) John Murtha
C) ANY Police Officer in Iraq
D) Ward Churchill AKA Walking Eagle

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-26 12:09|| 2006-05-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 This is great news! OS thanks for the comments yesterday, points taken. Now we have to get a Bolten/Hayden type in the FBI and make this team work!

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-26 13:39|| 2006-05-26 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 49Pan - yup!

FBI should be next. Need to chisel the CT and intel away from the Criminal and let it operate on its own. Take an axe, just like Analysis and Ops at CIA, and give a big fat divorce to them. Steer the CT functions to DHS. Hell, the FBI doenst really want to do that stuff anyway. Politically speaking though, chunking up the FBI will be a LOT harder since its under Justice, not Defense, NID or DHS even.

Ther FBI seems to have not realized that there is a competely different mindset required, and they STILL haven't "gotten it" at the Hoover building.

They have the old mindset that has them chasing the wrong kind of "Al": Al Capone instead of Al Qaeda.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-26 14:36|| 2006-05-26 14:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Think about it - a month or so ago Bush took heat over the "Illegal wiretaps by NSA", then he pushes it back in the Donks'/MSM's faces by nominating the same dude running NSA intercept program TO HEAD THE CIA. AND...HE WINS... LOL!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-26 17:01|| 2006-05-26 17:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Great news! Now we have to wait a few months and see if there is any bloodletting in the CIA. I pray that the good general has the guts to come down hard on leakers, islam-appologists, and people who put their own agenda ahead of the security of the United States. If the good general needs a battered old NCO to help out, I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to get my clearances reinstated, and I have my own axehandle.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-26 17:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-26 17:49|| Front Page Top

#10 OP I am with you! I am only six years out and have my last 398 paperwork in my discharge briefcase. Can't take more than a minute to update that.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-26 17:59|| 2006-05-26 17:59|| Front Page Top

#11 If nothing else does it, this should wake up and convince Bush and the entire administration that they have been boxing with shadows. A big fight? Bush a lame duck? BULLSHIT. The paper tigers of the Left are not willing to actually fight good appointments or good policy.

Bush should take off the gloves and start publicly bashing the living dogshit out of them - on every front, every issue, every needed action that sits languishing in a political morass no more substantial than the smoke and mirrors of an MSM meme.

And, regards the MSM, he should follow Harper's example and cut the obvious partisans off at the ankles. Withdrawing press credentials for such behavior is long overdue. Take back the public forum and get shit done. Stop being nice to our enemies - that wasn't why you were elected - twice.

Posted by Cromolet Phavish7868 2006-05-26 18:59|| 2006-05-26 18:59|| Front Page Top

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