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Funny how they all pivot away after being slapped with the truth
Yep, they have to take lie detector test once a week. I would love if Obama, Hillary, Holder, Lois Lerner, oh and anyone on Obama's re-election team would take lie detector test on live TV
When the alleged CIA "insider" talks about jeopardizing their family, he is talking about himself doing the jeopardizing, not any threats from the government.
And just how would you know?
You don't think the CIA has ever threatened or conducted their own assassinations on Americans??
You might consider that the CIA is an intelligence agency that deals in SECRETS. There's a technique to keeping SECRETS. It's called preventing the secrets from leaking. The CIA investigation in Benghazi is an ongoing one, presumably dealing with sensitive information. And as Benghazi is being used politically, the CIA would understandably be very interested in keeping the information of a highly politicized investigation contained.
There are repercussions when a political party takes an event and turns it into a political landmine. Some of the repercussions are unanticipated. Like how the determination of whether to close down an embassy gets taken out of an ambassador's hands and ends up in the hands of an administration that doesn't want to add fuel to the fire. So as a government, we end up overcautious, disrupt our embassy operations, and rack up the costs of maintaining those embassies and missions.
CIA personnel have always been subject to investigation by the CIA. And CIA personnel have always been charged with keeping the CIA's secrets just that, secrets. The ominous spin put on this is partisanship, pure and simple, and unreasonable as well.
This is how a dictator rules. And Obama goes to a late night COMEDY show to talk about terrorist attack. What a president, makes Americans look like a bunch of idiots.
They are idiots for electing him.
"Hope and Change" = record high numbers of people on welfare + 97% of new jobs created are part-time jobs + CIA personnel take lie detector tests to make sure they're not telling Congress the truth
Oh? That's how it works? I can just make up total bull**** like, oh, "softblueys" is Meth Head and it becomes your responsibility to prove the claim false?
The title of this thread is a lie. Period.
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Originally Posted by softblueyz
You don't think the CIA has ever threatened or conducted their own assassinations on Americans??
In the context of this thread, don't know, don't care.
The problem is the righteous indignation from the left.
Iran-Contra was bad. It was a program initiated by a right-wing US government to support anti-communist backed rebels against a communist backed government hell-bound on setting up shop directly outside our borders.
Clinton's arms funneling to Bosnia is good and the right thing to do to help out oppressed Muslims (AQ military networks) in a far off distant land in direct contravention to UN arms embargo.
Obama's funneling of arms (to AQ military backed networks) is good and the right thing to do to help out those opposed Muslims in a far-off distant land.
You still hear and see left-wing ideological nutjobs continuing to bring up Iran-Contra and refusing to see that their own most favored leaders aren't just funneling arms, they're funneling them to anti-American factions of AQ.
So, you have two parties after each other's throats. One created a law to punish a right-leaning US government from funneling arms to pro-American anti-communist regimes. The other party says there's "nothing to see here" as they funnel arms to anti-American terrorist groups in a far off distant land.
Help me out here...
I might say the same thing to you.
Partisanship is a source of much hypocrisy. And it rears its head on both sides of the political spectrum.
As for this article, I stand by what I posted 100%. The CIA is an intelligence agency. They operate abroad. They are engaged in keeping American secrets and finding out the secrets of other nations and other organizations, friend and foe. Maintaining the secrecy of their operations is key to their success. Finding leaks and discouraging leaks is part of "maintaining the secrecy". No one's family was threatened. The CIA regularly asks personnel to submit to polygraph tests. If personnel are leaking information, they know that they are putting their jobs at risk. That's ALWAYS been true.
Nothing in the preceding paragraph is the least bit partisan. It's simple, honest facts.
There's a difference between leaking secret information to partisan GOP Congressmen who will publicize and politicize those SECRETS, and testifying at a Congressional hearings which can be closed when sensitive information is the topic.
And the CIA personnel are not being prevented from testifying at Congressional hearings. They aren't being silenced. If Congress calls them to testify, they will testify.
But it's not unreasonable for the CIA to ask Congress to use its full powers of discretion when holding these hearings. It's not unreasonable for the CIA to ask Congress to keep national secrets, and the details of ongoing investigations, secret.
It is unreasonable for such secrets to be used as political fodder. I know the GOP wants to use our national secrets as political fodder right now. I know the Democrats have sought to do the same when Republican administrations have been in power.
It's the CIA's job to protect those secrets, regardless of which party is in power.
"Hope and Change" = record high numbers of people on welfare + 97% of new jobs created are part-time jobs + CIA personnel take lie detector tests to make sure they're not telling Congress the truth
Worst. President. EVER
Most of those new jobs aren't even contributing to the economy because they are GOVERNMENT jobs. People need to remember that the government doesn't produce anything! All it is is a drain on taxpayers.
Some zombies who don't get it think that if they have a government job and pay taxes they are somehow contributing but what they fail to see is 100 percent of their income was paid for by taxpayers. Whereas if they worked in the private sector it would be paid for from sales of goods and services that people actually want and need.
A few years ago the government was 2 times the size of the private sector. It has to be even bigger than that now as the Obama administration clearly wants to shut down small businesses. Hasn't the SBA shut down?
I wonder if the left still thinks this is just a "phony scandal"
The congress cannot even interview the dozens of CIA people who were at Benghazi that night. Seems more like a full-throat cover up to me. I have no clue why the congress would convene a couple independent counsels and start serious investigations, with an experienced, criminal prosecutor running the show.
We all know by this time in our lives. It is only a damn scandal, when the other side is doing it. We all know this, we are not dumb
I think this administration is the most scandalous ever. Lies, Deceit, and Distoritions.
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