It's not just health care. It's not just the economy. It's not just the radical shift towards an intolerant, immoral nanny state.The Obama administration needs to be opposed because of it's weakening of our national security.
Here's a report from Bill Gertz at the Washington Times about Team Obama's latest irrational action; namely, the scaling back of counter-intelligence regarding Communist China, a dedicated enemy of the United States who routinely steals our secrets, undermines our economy and security through ongoing cyber-attacks, regularly cheats on trade agreements, persecutes its own people, threatens the very existence of Taiwan and Tibet, and in other ways continues to push for a total domination of the hemisphere.
To curtail our intelligence gathering operations against such an enemy is naive...and very dangerous.
From the story:
John Tkacik, a former State Department intelligence official, said the demotion of China to a second-tier priority reflects bias within the NSC staff.
"It means that the Obama administration doesn't understand the profound challenge that China has become or, even more disturbing, it cannot understand that China's challenges to America's policies are becoming even more threatening with each passing week," he said.
The intelligence downgrade was disclosed as civilian and military leaders were calling U.S. intelligence collection and analysis on China deficient.
Adm. Robert Willard, the new commander of U.S. Pacific Command, indirectly criticized U.S. intelligence estimates on China last fall, telling reporters in November that during the past decade "China has exceeded most of our intelligence estimates of their military capability and capacity every year. They've grown at an unprecedented rate in those capabilities."...
A military official also said recently that Army, Air Force and Navy intelligence components are just beginning to understand the growing need to focus more intelligence assets on the challenges posed by China's military buildup and aggressive intelligence activities.
Counterintelligence officials also were surprised at the decision to lower the intelligence priority on China, noting that China's espionage, technology theft and economic spying continue to dominate scarce resources, including people and funds.
Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive, also said the priority change was ill-advised and will hurt personnel, funding and intelligence assets devoted to Chinese targets.
"Chinese intelligence is going after us with a vengeance," she said, noting that the problem includes industrial espionage, technology diversion and stealing defense and other national security secrets, in addition to a global campaign of cyber-espionage.
"So why are they doing this?" she asked. "I am very troubled by how little U.S. intelligence really knows about the Chinese, in part because they have been so successful against us. Our national leadership should be pushing to close this intelligence gap, because if they dont, they will risk making serious miscalculations in dealing with China."
On the other hand, Gertz notes that the Obama administration is ratcheting up its intelligence gathering in one area -- global warming!
One new area that has been given a higher intelligence priority under the Obama administration is intelligence collection on climate change, a nontraditional mission marginally linked to national security. The CIA recently announced that it had set up a center to study the impact of climate change.
As I said, it's not just that Barack Obama is bad for our economy, our prestige, our moral strength -- the fellow is cutting deals with the bad guys to weaken our national defense. Lord, help us.
