Bond firm on intelligence bill
WASHINGTON — The debate over FISA and U.S. intelligence-gathering efforts has become increasingly bitter the past couple of days in the nation’s capital.
Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Friday accused House Democrats of gambling with our national security by passing a highly-partisan Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill.
“While the threat level remains high, some in this country, and in Congress, want us to let our guard down,” Bond said. “Letting our guard down is not a choice, it’s an invitation to disaster.”
Earlier Friday afternoon on a party-line vote of 213-197, the House passed what Bond termed “a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill that would hurt our crucial ability to listen in on terrorists planning to attack American families here at home or our troops in the field.”
“Unlike the partisan and flawed House bill, the Senate passed a bipartisan terrorist surveillance compromise that had been fully vetted by the intelligence community with an overwhelming 68-29 vote.”
Bond criticized Democrats for “rolling the dice with the security of American families and our troops in the field by leaving for another two-week recess without passing a terrorist surveillance bill that can be signed into law.”
Balh…blah..blah, kitty! Democrats bad, GOP good! GOP fight “terror!” Democrats “surrender!”
Geez, make sure this clown is off the booze and taking his meds. He votes to the right of Jesse Helms, and claims to be from Missouri? I think he lives in a bottle inside the GOP Beltway!
http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/11/09/real-terror-is-fear/