Soft on National Security

These are a bunch of dangerous idiots.  Should they be entrusted with our national security?

As I count it up, there are at least four incidents of serious bungling, if not outright sabotage, of national security matters.  Lemme know if I got them right, and if I missed any.

Before getting to the list under the fold, let me suggest that the Plame meme needs to have both "treason" and "national security" in it.  Something like "treasonous breach of national security."

1.  Plame, of course.  Untold damage to our intelligence gathering efforts, not only in the loss of Plame, her cover company and possibly assets whose covers have been blown by association, but also our ability to recruit for a long time to come.

2.  Blowing the identity of the Al Qaida operative the British had caught and flipped, thus seriously hindering a promising effort to track down and catch terrorist cells in London.  May be directly responsible for the terrorists' ecent successful attack in London.

3.  Counting Judy Miller as part of the cabal, there's the time she tipped a terrorist group to an upcoming FBI raid.

4.  Finally (just caught this out the corner of my eye, and apologies for not trying harder to research it), there's some story about a Seattle-based terrorist investigation that the Admin scotched.

•  Soft, nothing

  The Republicans are toxic to national security.
  

  by cskendrick on Sun Jul 24, 2005 at 07:17:26 PM PDT

  •  I agree, soft is not the right word...

    I've also seen "weak", which I also think is not right.  "Incompetent" is the word that seems right to me.

    FWIW, my 2 cents...

    by beemerr90s on Sun Jul 24, 2005 at 09:32:23 PM PDT

•  You forgot

  somebody in this administration telling Chalabi that the US had broken Iranian codes. Which he promptly passed to the Iranians.

  Whoever did that committed treason, and can be prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act, 18 USC 794.

  by jakethomson on Sun Jul 24, 2005 at 10:46:33 PM PDT

  •  Yeow

    My god, yes.  That's a huge one.  thx

    by sharman on Thu Jul 28, 2005 at 10:03:45 PM PDT

•  I hate to sound like the tinfoil hat brigade

  but I really begin to think that nobody is that stupid, not even Bush. How could anyone that dumb become president?

  I'm beginning to think he really wants to destroy America. But who would ever believe it?

  by Danjuma on Mon Jul 25, 2005 at 02:58:03 AM PDT