Who is it who really cares?

I do not want to always post other people's articles but doggone it - this one just has to be seen.  With Eric Holder investigating the CIA, somebody with real authority on the subject needs to be heard.

Monday, August 31, 2009 7:59 PM

By: Kent Clizbe

In the early days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, a small cadre of men (and a few women) with vast amounts of intelligence experience reported to the Langley, Va., headquarters of the CIA. These unsung heroes then were dispatched across the globe to run operations against the al-Qaida conspirators who leveled the World Trade Center and struck the nerve center of the U.S. military.

The FBI, a domestic law enforcement agency, did not have the ability or skills needed to track down and strike the attackers overseas. The Pentagon, with F22s, nuclear aircraft carriers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and battalions of the best armor in the history of mankind, was like an elephant attacked by a mouse — mighty, but helpless in its mammoth rage.

Our best hope was in the hands of the gray-bearded intelligence professionals who fanned out across the world. Supplementing the skeleton crew of staff officers left in the wake of President Clinton's anti-intelligence scourging of the CIA, the volunteers went to the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, to the most remote and isolated outposts in the world. Sometimes they worked with friendly forces, and sometimes they worked alone. They focused like a laser beam on one thing: Stop the next attack.

Their mission: Seek and destroy the terrorist planners, facilitators, trainers, financiers, and their infrastructure wherever they were.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, CIA officers, both the contractors and the overextended staff officers, launched dozens of initiatives. The CIA Counterterrorism Center’s motto, “Deny, Disrupt, Destroy,” became the reason for our living. We left our families for months on end and sacrificed personal and professional lives to fight the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Google “Jihadists in Paradise,” for an unauthorized account of one of my contributions (I have been advised that I can neither confirm nor deny).

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Credit to - Newsmax.com

Ted Kennedy and other things.

So yes, Ted Kennedy has died. I have very mixed emotions about the event, obviously it's very
sad for his family and those who loved him. When he was younger he was a rogue and a drinker, plunging headlong into whatever it was he chose to do. Unfortunately that cost a young woman her life, because she happened to accept a ride from Ted. MaryJo Kopechne. I hope I spelled that right. And while Ted Kennedy fought like hell to do good things - he simply could not get beyond the magnitude of bad judgement and cowardice he displayed that night.

By all accounts Ted was charming and witty and had a wonderfully huge and giving heart. But still - and this is where I wince a bit - his views on everything, and I mean everything he believed in and fought for politically was the polar opposite of what I believe. He wanted to give everybody everything, with no strings attached. He believed in some kind of perfect utopia. But zanado doesn't exist, people have to work for what they have to appreciate it, to simply provide, provide, provide - takes away people's dignity. Demeans them. But he always meant well. That's why I have the mixed feelings. He fought so hard for so much and he believed in everything so stongly. But - I simply believe he was usually wrong.

The other things . . I don't get home from work early enough to see Glenn Beck. I don't have Tivo or any of those new ways of watching TV so last night I decided to set my VCR (yes, VHS) to tape Glenn Beck so I can watch it when I get home. Wouldn't you know, it rained and rained and my power went out so nothing taped today. I've reset it and hopefully I will catch tomorrows show.

Glenn is a smart guy, he has uncovered truths about many of the people who have been slipped into the White House who have all kinds of radical beliefs and ties. The are Czars, or officers, or administrators, not one of them has to be appointed and go through the approval process through Congress. And Obama has more Czars, specifically, than any other president. Ever. You just have to wonder after a while if some of these people, like the car Czar who knows nothing about cars, are being strategically placed through out the government to slowly start dismantling our government as we know it, from the inside out.

It's a scary thought and it may be out there - but what the hell is going on? Why is Obama making friends with our enemies, and enemies out of our friends? Why is he making it impossible to keep our intelligence members safe and effective by investigating them and tying their hands on what they can do to acquire intelligence for the CIA - for our armed services, to protect the American people?

Because I don't see anything he is doing that will make our country, our economy and our populace stronger. He's not doing that. So what IS he doing???