CIA Assassin Program: Why The Crying?

These last couple of days have seen a flurry of whining and moaning about the uncovering of a CIA assassin program. I don't get all the hysteria surrounding it. First, the program NEVER CAME TO BE!!!! Second, the proposed targeted killings would have been top al-Qaeda leaders. Wouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, I have no military background, but isn't that what is done when you're at war with the enemy? Helllloooooo! Are people in our country, especially the elitist politicians, MSM, and entertainers, so disconnected from the realities of this world and its evil that we just think we can hold hands with everyone and sing "Kum Bah Ya" and make it all better?

Fer cryin' out loud!

Well, I found today that I'm on the right track with regards to "not gittin'" all the hoopla the MSM and Dems are stirring up around this non-controversy. Uncle Jimbo of BlackFive, a retired Special Operations Master Sergeant now writing and podcasting about the military and politics, has posted a great video on YouTube in which he gives a great explanation of the story, giving us the side we would never hear from The Obamedia. He makes some very insightful points, such as ...

• the difference between assassinating political leaders versus targeted killings of the enemy,

• this is possibly only to cover Pelosi's butt when she claimed the CIA was lying to her and Congress,

• this was a "presidential finding" that was never put to use,

• Panetta is a former house Democrat who now runs the CIA,

• the House Intelligence Committee played politics with this information and released classified national security information to the press,

• this same committee claims they just found out about the proposed program, but it was published back in 2002 in The New York Times (here is the NYT article from Dec. 2002) ... I guess that was when the Dems first released this classified info to the press ... and, of course, the NYT published AGAIN classified state secrets,

• this is all a deflection tactic to pull the focus away from Obama's administration being a total debacle and a lame attempt to throw blame back on the Bush administration

Uncle Jimbo succinctly recaps it with these words: "Politics trumps national security."



I like his line that the Democrats, who are using yet another classified military plan for making political hay, should just "shut the f#@% up about it."

[BlackFive is a great blog, by the way! Check it and its podcasts out!]