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| National Defense Secrets: A Not-so-Funny International Joke! |
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by J.B. Williams Friday, January 6, 2006 How odd and alarming it is in the post 9/11 world, to note that secret intelligence and security operations are no longer an acceptable practice in America. Known for the most complex and effective national defense systems in the world, America seems to be having its biggest problems keeping its covert defense operations, well, covert. In the name of open disclosure, or maybe more specifically, political "Gotcha-ism", the American press seems to take great pride in outing what are supposed to be Top Secret national security operations. At a time of great political division evidenced by the daily barrage of bare-knuckled rhetorical headlines attacking all facets of government, in particular the current administration, it isn’t tough to find some disgruntled malcontent doing time behind a CIA or NSA desk, willing to be the latest un-named source in a new form of political dissent. In fact, if you want to keep anything secret today, you had better not tell it to anyone working for our nation’s Top Secret agencies… The latest story involves an NSA data-mining effort aimed at intercepting communications between known Al Qaeda cells operating outside American borders and people currently residing in America. The pros call them "sleeper cells". Silent, invisible members of multiple international terrorist organizations, or just plain, old fashioned, home-grown sympathizers, living in average American neighborhoods, leading seemingly normal American lives, laying low below radar, planning and plotting the next 9/11. Even stranger is the fact that the very same people who over-criticize our intelligence and defense community for NOT effectively unraveling the pre-911 puzzle in order to prevent that horrible day, are now busy outing every governmental agency effort to stop the next 9/11. Now partisans see this as only a politically motivated effort to undermine a President unpopular with many Ivy League professional snoops working inside these agencies and their liberal elitist friends running most news rooms in America these days. To be sure, these stories become huge headlines for the purpose of at least exploiting these opportunities for political gain. But the root motives may be far more insidious. ...The irresponsible reporting habits of today’s lamestream press are unconscionable. But back to point… Exactly what tools should be employed to stop the next 9/11 and what should happen to so-called whistleblowers who seek fame, fortune or political gain from outing Top Secret national security operations? There is good reason to believe that the Bush administration did nothing wrong or illegal in their efforts to intercept terrorist related communications. Congressional oversight was briefed on the activities every step of the way though few admit it now. The Justice Department has issued a formal statement supporting the legality and necessity of the now not-so-secret NSA operation. Ranking Democrat On The House Intelligence Committee Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) Calls The NSA Program "Essential" To Targeting Al Qaeda. "As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities." (Rep. Jane Harman, Harman Statement on NSA Electronic Surveillance Program, Press Release, 12/21/05) Though the same old Democrats seek to make political hay by exploiting the story as further evidence of a renegade administration, the average American seems to grasp the fact that our intelligence community is designed and obligated to use all reasonable means to collect and piece together a puzzle that could prevent events worse than 9/11. They understand that such efforts can only work in secret. Most are more concerned with what appears to be a wholesale effort to out the entire counter-terrorism effort and are increasingly frustrated by a general lack of responsible reporting by our illustrious press corp. There is every reason to believe that the administration would have been irresponsible and reckless had they not taken every reasonable measure to intercept such communications. There is also every reason to believe that attempting to keep such efforts secret through partisan channels would jeopardize any such operation. Even as careful as they allegedly were to work in secrecy, here we are discussing our nation’s most guarded secrets in the public square. Those who know my body of work know that few in America are more concerned with modern threats on our freedoms and liberties. But I am even more concerned with the current wholesale leaking of all counter-terrorism efforts and the press’s willingness to report all without even questioning the credibility of the whistleblower. Go ye, and read the rest. One of our neighbors to the north gets it. http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/williams010606.htm" title="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/williams010606.htm" target="_blank"http://www.canadafreepress.co... |
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