At some point, the Dems need to understand that they are running the federal government now.
In other words, they are supposed to govern not just give speeches against Bush!
"Obama understands that the country needs a better and stronger intelligence agency.
He wants more information than he gets in his daily intelligence briefings, and he has discussed with Panetta the challenge of building a tougher, smarter, more aggressive CIA.
That's a righteous goal, but it begins with depoliticizing the agency and ending the culture of permanent scandal.
If Obama means what he has said about looking forward rather than backward, then he should stick to his guns -- and hope that the attorney general and House speaker agree that it's time to stop kicking this football."
How do you stop this politicizing of the CIA?
First, we need a president who will tell the angry left to take a shower and cool off.
Second, someone needs to remind the Dems that they won the election, i.e. they need to govern!
As we posted before, all of this "CIA bashing" is a big distraction from the disastrous stimulus rushed through Congress earlier this year.
However, the CIA-bashing is also killing morale over the agency. Let's not forget that many of these people risk their lives everyday all over the world.
P.S. John Yoo is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an official in the Justice Department from 2001-03 and is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Today, he wrote a "grown up" defense of Pres Bush's anti-terror policies: Why We Endorsed Warrantless Wiretaps!
"Our Constitution created a presidency whose function is to protect the nation from attack. Gathering intelligence -- including intercepting enemy communications -- has long been a key aspect of war.
Our military and intelligence agencies cannot attack or defend the nation unless they know where to aim.
As we confront terrorists who remain intent on attacking the U.S., using weapons we cannot anticipate, we should be skeptical of those who insist that we radically change the way this country has always made war."
