Democrats' intelligence challenged on globo warming

Washington Times:

House Democrats yesterday were expected to block Republican efforts to strip a global-warming study from a bill setting intelligence policy, hours after top retired military officials lauded Democratic efforts to link climate change with national security.
House Republicans are gearing up for a floor showdown on the topic today after Democrats insisted that the intelligence bill keep a provision ordering a National Intelligence Estimate that would evaluate climate change as a security risk.
"This is an area that we may be vulnerable in terms of potential terrorists," said Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"You mean a terrorist could impact global climate change?" asked Rep. David Dreier of California, the ranking Republican on the Rules Committee.
"We don't know," Mr. Reyes responded, prompting Mr. Dreier to snap sarcastically: "Wow. That's amazing."
After this exchange, the Rules panel met late into the night and was slated to approve the terms of debate, including a limitation of Republican amendments allowed to the Intelligence Authorization Act, which will be considered on the floor today.
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The examples of war potential over global warming seem so far fetched as to not even be worthy of a disaster movie. This is another example of Democrats wasting resources and it is more than a distraction from the war against the Islamic religious bigots. It is silly, but that is what you get when Democrats are trusted with national security matters.

Byron York has a great column on the intelligence over global warming.

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Former CIA director George Tenet mentions Gore’s environmental emphasis in his new book, At the Center of the Storm. “True to his interests, [Gore] had a fascination for wonkish issues,” Tenet writes. “He asked lots of questions about the impact on national security of water shortages, disease and environmental concerns.” Tenet reveals that some inside the CIA derided Gore’s priorities as “bugs and bunnies.”

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That was more important to Democrats than trying to get a grip on al Qaeda's next attack.

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