Nonsense on Intelligence Reform

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The Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill has circled the wagons in defense of the party’s determination to roll the dice with American national security.

Senators Jay Rockefeller and Patrick Leahy joined Representatives Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers in penning a fatuous op-ed in the Washington Post Monday. The four are chairs of the intelligence and judiciary committees of, respectively, the Senate and House. They claim that the White House is engaged in fear-mongering when it decries the failure of House Democrats to enact a reform measure that would have preserved essential intelligence-collection authority — a bill that passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate by an overwhelming two-to-one margin and would similarly sail through the House - if only Speaker Nancy Pelosi would allow it to come to the floor for a vote...

[I.e., it's not a case of the house being split: it's not. It's a simple case of Ms. Pelosi preventing the matter from even coming to a vote. How very democratic]

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