Jul 05 2006
Media Leaks Destroy War On Terror
Next time a liberal tells you the war on the war on terror by the left is not making us all more susceptible to attack point them to this story, where reports of the CIA working with its counterpart Italian intelligence agency SISMI has caused the arrest of SISMI Top anti-terrorism managers and calls for arrest of CIA agents.
Italian prosecutors ordered the arrest of the country’s head of counterintelligence in connection with the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that suspected him of having terrorist links.Prosecutors leading the investigation asked for the agent, one of the top officials at the Sismi, Italy’s intelligence agency, to be placed under house arrest, and also requested the imprisonment of the chief Sismi officer for northern Italy, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office.
The prosecutors are also seeking the arrest of four U.S. citizens: three CIA agents and a military officer stationed at the U.S. Air Force base in Aviano in northern Italy, according to the statement.
So we are now at war with ourselves thanks to the leftwing media. We are arresting those who are trying to defend us and not those trying to attack us. US intelligence and military personnel are under threat of arrest for being at war with Islamic Terrorists. The next terrorist attack iin Europe or the US will be an eye opener on how truly suicidal the left has become on the issue of terrorism (or, loss of their own power).
Unfortunately, the media would think this is a good thing. They hate rendition and buy into the terrorist’s tale. Theyalso hate war. The only thing they love is the failed policy of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue.
In fact, this grandstanding Milan prosecutor proves the folly of that policy. He will tell the leftist Reuters and AP what a wonderful investigation he had going (until the US messed it up) and the media won’t ask him: “If you had the terrorist under such great surveillance how were the US agents able to follow him around for days and grab him in broad daylight. He could have been meeting with his terrorist cell members, Mr. Prosecutor, sir?”
AJ –
Headline – “Media Leaks Destroy War On Terror”. Where is there any indication in this post or the linked-to story that “media leaks” do anything to anything ? “So we are now at war with ourselves thanks to the leftwing media.” Who is at war with who? What has the “leftwing media” to do with anything. Did you actually read the story you exerpted from ?
AJ. You’ve gotta get a grip, son. Crank down your dosage of crank. Crank it down seriously. There’s nothing in that story regarding media leaks or regarding “the leftwing media”.
“US intelligence and military personnel are under threat of arrest for being at war with Islamic Terrorists.” Duh, no. They’re under threat of arrest for allegedly acting in violation of Italian law. (In Italy, as in most civilized countries, kidnapping (for example) is illegal. It is in Virginia, too, I bet.)
Get a grip, boy.
DGF-you call it kidnapping. I think it the US tracking down a terrorist and disrupting his activities and planning before he has a chance to strike.
Imagine it is Hamburg 1999. The German authorities are looking into the activities of a group of young men who “worship’ at the same mosque.
They move s l o w l y. The US has a chance to rendition Muhammad Atta to his home country of Egypt for some homestyle interrogation.
Your call, do you do it, or is it against kidnapping laws of Germany.
3000 Americans were not available for comment.
Kate —
You call it your way.
Imagine this. It’s August of 2001. The President of the United States essentially ignores his principal intelligence agency’s urgent warnings that Osama bin Laden is intending to strike in the United States. The President essentially does nothing (he and his buds are concerned, rather, with Star Wars defense and ironing things out with the major energy providers). A group of patriotic Americans recognize the threat posed by such inattention and inaction in the executive branch, organize a coup and take control of the Federal government, and swiftly ramp up counterintelligence activities which end up disrupting OBL’s attacks of 9/11.
You may call it treason (etc.), but 3000 Americans were not available for comment.
Maybe if I had more caffeine in me (it’s early for me yet), I could come up with a better “imagining” or ten or one hundred similar “imaginings”. Yet such imaginings is a game which will one will rationally allow to trump the rule of law (if at all), only in the most rare and certain of circumstances.