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Much of today's news, naturally, concerns the international gathering of world leaders in Paris, expressing solidarity against Islamic terrorism. Since most media outlets, especially Fox as usual, are covering the event, commentary here is unnecessary. However, a couple of reactions are extremely interesting.

 

Our president didn’t attend, although other leaders arriving included British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and even Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas, all vowing solidarity against terrorism.

 

The undercurrent regarding the president’s decision to stay home seems to be the supposition that he doesn’t want to have to answer pointed questions from foreign media he can’t control as to his own, significant, responsibility for the resurgence of international terrorism. In that regard, John Kerry was absent as well.

 

Then there was this comment reported by washingtontimes.com that, “A key senator said Sunday she believes there are terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S. that could carry out attacks similar to the ones in France that left 17 people dead last week.

 

“Senator Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, did not comment on specific threats against America but said other attacks are possible.

 

“I think there are sleeper cells not only in France but certainly in other countries and, yes, in our own,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “This calls for vigilance. … Hopefully, we can be even more active in terms of doing those things which enable us to find terrorists, see who they’re communicating with and to track that.”

 

Now, although there really isn't anything lower than a typical politician, even they are capable of sinking far further than reasonably imaginable. Because it was only last month when this same senator, Feinstein, produced a scathing anti-intelligence gathering report which was obviously slanted to smear the Bush administration's treatment of September 11th suspects.

 

According to nytimes.com on December 9, 2014, “The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday issued a sweeping indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency’s program to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, drawing on millions of internal C.I.A. documents to illuminate practices that it said were more brutal — and far less effective — than the agency acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to the public.

 

“The long-delayed report delivers a withering judgment on one of the most controversial tactics of a twilight war waged over a dozen years. The Senate committee’s investigation, born of what its chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, said was a need to reckon with the excesses of this war, found that C.I.A. officials routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained, and failed to provide basic oversight of the secret prisons it established around the world.”

 

So, here we have a woman who, for purely political purposes, excoriates a previous administration’s reaction to a direct attack on the US homeland in which  2,977 were killed, and that administration’s attempt to gain needed intelligence any way possible. 

 

On the other hand, however, her party’s approach of appeasement and ignoring of terrorist threats have resulted in the rise of ISIS in Syria, the Boston bombing and now, indirectly, the Paris massacre. And soon to come, an Iranian nuclear weapon.

 

Which means that this woman’s illogical action’s and statements are not only despicable, as a practical matter, they’re beyond moronic.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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