Washington Post: Republican Shutdown Means US Is Threatened By Terrorists

by William Teach | October 3, 2013 7:52 am

Yesterday the Editorial Board of the Washington Post said they weren’t partisan[1], but, hey, those Republicans were failing America. Today, they ask why Obama is playing games with closing monuments and stuff Republicans hate national security

Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk[2]

IF HOUSE Republicans have had an obsession to rival their hatred of the Affordable Care Act, it has been their determination to find a scandal in the 2012 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed.

Yet this week those same Republicans are putting U.S. embassies across the world at risk with their shutdown of the U.S. government. More broadly, they are endangering national security at a time when the United States remains under threat from al-Qaeda and affiliated groups.

Wait, I thought Obama said “Osama Bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run”?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the intelligence committee, said on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday that 72 percent of the civilian intelligence agency workforce has been furloughed[3].

“This means that, with the exception of a few intelligence agencies that have a significant number of military personnel, the lights are being turned off and the majority of the people who produce our intelligence, analyze that intelligence and provide warning of terrorist attacks or advise policymakers of major national security events will be prevented from doing their jobs,” she said. “We have ambassadors in threatened capitals . . . [who] rely on their intelligence briefers and the tactical intelligence support to their security teams as much as they rely on the Marines who guard front gates. . . . What we are doing now puts American lives at risk.”

Ms. Feinstein is hardly a rabid partisan..

It is reckless behavior in a time of war, and it is, above all, Speaker John Boehner and his allies who are at fault.

Well, you knew someone had to play this card at some point. Will they play the racism card tomorrow?

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Endnotes:
  1. they weren’t partisan: http://www.thepiratescove.us/2013/10/02/washington-post-republicans-are-failing-america-or-something/
  2. [Image]Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-shutdown-puts-us-security-at-risk/2013/10/02/16e0627c-2b88-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html?hpid=z4
  3. 72 percent of the civilian intelligence agency workforce has been furloughed: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2013-10-01/pdf/CREC-2013-10-01-pt1-PgS7078-3.pdf#page=4
  4. Pirate’s Cove: http://www.thepiratescove.us/
  5. @WilliamTeach: http://twitter.com/WilliamTeach

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