Not So Transparent After All

11 December 2009

A report on the preliminary investigation conducted on the November 5 shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas, has been delivered to the White House. So why is the White House refusing to make that report available to the members of the House Intelligence Committee? More specifically to the Republican members of the committee?

Is this another example of the refusal on the part of President Obama to keep all members of Congress abreast of the investigation in Hasan terrorist attack against the soldiers, or just a way for Obama to cover up some sinister agenda?

It is increasingly difficult to determine the true direction this President and his Congress is taking these days. Delaying for months the decision on the troop increase for Afghanistan was a typical example of what appears to be a total inability to make hard and possibly politically uncomfortable decision for this crowd, only interested in the increase of their personal powers at what ever cost.
One must believe in the lack of decisiveness angle, because the other alternative, the deliberate and determined dismantling of America’s laws and Constitution, is too disturbing to even contemplate.
According to the 1947 National Security Act, the President is obligate by law to divulge the findings of the preliminary report to members of Congress in the House Intelligence Committee. All members, not just those who support your agenda.

In November, just after the attack, Obama urged the American people to not take the “tragic event” and turn it into a political issue, something that the Liberal Progressive in Congress did on an hourly base to Bush while our men and women in uniform were sacrificing so much in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The politically correct, permissive attitude that has become so relevant in our country will, if not checked, spell the complete trampling of the American ideals of freedom and security. The most frightening aspect of it is that 52% of the electorate in America purposely chose, in November 2008, to ignore all the signs that the vote they were casting was to give a radical, openly anti-American man the chance to gain enough power, aided by a oligarchic Congress, to insure the slow erosion and destruction of our country.
Was it ignorance? Maybe guilt for sins of a distant past? The American people were blinded by promises of an open government, a fair government, hope for transparency in contrast with the perceived closeness of the Bush Administration, which, by the way, kept the country safe for eight years.
So how is this for transparency? What is the purpose of covering up a terrorist attack on America?
Moreover, while leaks of classified material is the norm when it comes to National Security issues or Military planning for our forces involved in Afghanistan, there is absolutely no leak about this report, suggesting that the content is such that Obama is keeping it very close and protected (although leaks are in my opinion deliberately made and used as political tools). And such action from Obama gives plenty of reasons for concern, as it may display the chronic, problematic danger that political correctness represents for the security of our Nation.

At a minimum, Obama's actions are even more telling of the lack of transparency in government he had promised during the campaign. In other words, he is a liar!

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”