National Security

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Dems Look to Slash Military

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the Chairman of the House Finance Committee, has given an indication the kind of “change” the Democrats have in mind following the elections. 
Calling for a 25% cut in Defense spending twice within the last week Frank said, “We don’t need all these fancy new weapons.” 
Frank disdainfully attacked the United States military [...]

For the ‘Blame-America-First Crowd’ – All Iraq News is Bad News

When news of a budget “surplus” for the fledgling Iraqi government reached Capitol Hill recently, the Democrats and a handful of Republicans were quick to brand it as further evidence of misguided policy and bad news from the battlefield. 
It is not surprising that to those in Washington who know only deficit budgets would be completely [...]

A brief review of recent past events in history

See how the Democrats changed both their opinions and the facts here.

Pelosi’s Free Trade Veto Draws Fire

Nancy Pelosi stuffed another critical piece of legislation in her purse – this time damaging both American interests and those of an important ally in the process.  Last week she strong armed the Democrat caucus into voting with her to indefinitely block a free trade agreement with Columbia that has been years in the making.  [...]

Jimmy Carter Interviews to be Obama’s Secretary of State

As the 39th President, Jimmy Carter is remembered for run-away inflation, for being unable to free hostages trapped in Tehran for 444 days, for insulting American citizens for being in a “malaise,” and for making nice with PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat.  Carter was perhaps our biggest Presidential foreign policy disaster. 
Now, though, he’s volunteered to go [...]

Why America Needs Warrantless Wiretap Authority

42 days – where’s Nancy?
Six weeks have passed since FISA, the authority for the President to authorize wiretap surveillance of terror suspects. Nancy Pelosi continues to stonewall and deny the House to vote on the re-authorization bill already passed 68-29 by the Senate. Click here to read the stark, honest assessment of Attorney General Michael [...]

America at Risk: Waiting on Nancy

 Days Since FISA Expired:
34
Nancy Pelosi arrogantly denied the House a vote on legislation already passed 68-29 by the Senate, and as a result surveillance wiretap authority necessary for our American intelligence community to intercept terrorist telecommunications expired on February 16.
Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Pelosi’s inaction has had [...]

No Solution on Wiretaps - Pelosi takes two week recess, Expiration Now Over 30 days and No End in Sight

Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrat leadership left town in mid-February for a weeklong recess letting expire on Feb. 16 wiretap authority that seriously weakened the intelligence community’s ability to intercept terrorist telecommunications. Now Pelosi recessed the House for two weeks – this time for Spring Break. Two months, and three weeks of recess?
Before leaving [...]

Media Check: Fair and Balanced? - Bush Vetoes Congressional Limit on Interrogation

Saturday, March 8, 2008 President Bush announced his veto of legislation that would have limited CIA interrogation techniques of captured enemies. A Line of Sight has written previously about the fallacy of codifying in law limits to our efforts to extract information from terrorists – something akin to announcing that a military intervention won’t include [...]