Intentional Atrophy?

The apparent appointment of Leon Panetta as the CIA chief just shows how little regard Mr. Obama has for our National Security. At a time when there could be serious consequences in having a nuclear Iran, Obama has decided to appoint a weak leader in the top spot for intelligence gathering. Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, India are all hot spots that need the closest scrutiny and we are literally going to put a middle manager in a job that needs a highly trained professional. He's going to spend the next two years or more just getting up to speed. A lot can happen in that time.

I think he is an intentional pick to clean out the CIA of those who would put our national security ahead of an extremely liberal viewpoint of what human rights are or should be. His pick also follows the liberal viewpoint that all mankind has rights under our Constitution; even those who could give a flying-whatever about our Constitution and our way of life and would kill every one of us if they had a chance. Somehow the liberals always feel that we should be superior in our beliefs, even if it is to our dying breath. To me, the Leon Panetta choice is a choice to intentionally weaken the CIA. No more eavesdropping, rendition Guantanamo Bay, and water boarding.

Under Clinton, the intelligence capabilities of this country were extremely weakened and we were blindsided by 9/11. Since 9/11, Bush has put some teeth back into that agency. Now, with another former Clinton person in charge of the CIA, we could easily find ourselves on the precipice of another 9/11 or worse? Sometimes we never learn.

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