SHOULD THE CIA BE ALLOWED TO KILL AMERICAN ENEMIES?

It seems that the Liberal Democrats will get one more opportunity to beat up the Bush/Cheney administration over a recently released report of a CIA plan to assassinate top al-Qaeda leaders. Although the idea never went anywhere, current CIA Director, Leon PanettaLeon Panetta has decided to make the report public and thus pleasing his side of the aisle.

Once again, we have Democrats politicizing a National Security matter just in order to score cheap points with their party. The CIA assassination plot has caused such a stir that the House Intelligence panel is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into whether the CIA has lied to Congress, the committee’s top Democrat has announced. One of the investigations will focus on whether there were any violations of Federal Law , including the National Security Act of 1947.

It seems the Democratically led Congress is upset because Mr. Cheney did not inform them directly about these assassination plots.

An attempt by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) the top Intelligence Committee Republican, to come up with a bipartisan collaboration to investigate if the CIA has lied to Congress, fell apart after Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre ReyesSilvestre Reyes (D-Texas) succumbed to the pressure of having to defend Nancy PelosiNancy Pelosi and instead opted for a partisan plan.

The Democrat plan focuses on violation of the National Security Act of 1947 when according to Peter HoekstraPeter Hoekstra, "the facts clearly do not support such an accusation"
So, this begs the question, why would Barack ObamaBarack Obama allow such an inquiry to proceed knowing full well that any partisan controversy created over this investigation could potentially derail his Healthcare & Cap & Trade Reforms?

The Bush administration will rightly argue that the broad authority handed down by Congress in the aftermath of 9/11 should validate all CIA activity without question. As tough as this may seem, I tend to agree with that idea and so do most people around the world. Al-Qaeda may feel free to kill us, by the thousands if they can, but somehow a CIA operative would be demonized for a Sniper shot to the head of an al-Qaeda terrorist planning his next act of destruction on innocent humans.

This CIA investigation is another waste of taxpayer money and another weapon that will be used against us by these same terrorists and continue to put our troops in harms way. Let the CIA go about it's business and if it means contemplating assassination plots to keep us safe, more power to them.