Long, but it is important

First, I recognize two facts, I am a nerd and I live in Washington. These two facts alone mean that 98% of Americans don’t care about the following. But if blogs are supposed to be about things that the writer is thinking about than it is okay for me to have this here.

In my line of work one of the constant frustrations is the need to remind people that we are at WAR. Regardless of what you think about this administration, there are reasons that we have not been attacked since 9/11 and it is not because Al Qaeda is resting. Whether it is this story or the one about the CIA Air fleet being exposed or countless stories about military techniques in Iraq or the most famous, the revelation that the NSA could eavesdrop of Bin Laden’s Sat phone (which he immediately stopped using as soon as the story was published, that was a great intel source that the media took away from us) I get infuriated when I see these weasily reporters write a story because they want the scoop. Do they never consider that the story that they are using to make a name for themselves is endangering lives and National Security? This is not about politics. Anyone who knows me knows that I have quite a few problems with the President’s policies. This is about making sure that my two sweet girls can sleep in peace at night. It is about making sure that their husbands and sons don’t have to leave them to fight this same enemy.

The following story establishes firmly that the President HAD the authority to order the wiretaps. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, the very court that so many are saying he should have gone to has issued an opinion giving him the authority. So, How on EARTH is the New York Times story ANYTHING but the revelation of intelligence gathering techniques to the public, and therefore, the enemy!?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0512210142dec21,0,3553632.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed