CLASSIFIED: Senators Hide Their Votes on Arming Syrian Rebels

Started by Trip, August 03, 2013, 02:57:01 PM

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Trip


It's about time we start getting seriously pissed.  There are no moderate Syrian rebels, and there are no damn moderates in Congress.   This has everything to do with the deaths in Benghazi, but there's most certainly a lot more to Benghazi.

The American people are being betrayed by criminals.   It's time to feed the damn liberty tree.


  • For Congress, 'it's classified' is new equivalent of 'none of your business'

    By Ali Watkins | McClatchy Washington Bureau

    The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reportedly gave its approval last week to an Obama administration plan to provide weapons to "moderate" rebels in Syria, but how individual members of the committee stood on the subject remains unknown.

    here was no public debate and no public vote when one of the most contentious topics in American foreign policy was decided – outside of the view of constituents, who oppose the president's plan to aid the rebels by 54 percent to 37 percent, according to a Gallup Poll last month.

    In fact, ask individual members of the committee, who represent 117 million people in 14 states, how they stood on the plan to use the CIA to funnel weapons to the rebels and they are likely to respond with the current equivalent of "none of your business:" It's classified.

    Those were, in fact, the words Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the committee, used when asked a few days before the approval was granted to clarify her position for her constituents. She declined. It's a difficult situation, she said. And, "It's classified."

    She was not alone. In a string of interviews over days, members of both the Senate intelligence committee or its equivalent in the House were difficult to pin down on their view of providing arms to the rebels. The senators and representatives said they couldn't give an opinion, or at least a detailed one, because the matter was classified.

    It's an increasingly common stance that advocates of open government say undermines the very principle of a representative democracy.

    Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/30/198097/for-congress-its-classified-is.html#.Uf166qyPzoY#storylink=cpy