{"id":198955,"date":"2007-09-25T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/patrick-leahy-cuts-admiral-mike-mcconnell-a-new-one\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T16:31:00","slug":"patrick-leahy-cuts-admiral-mike-mcconnell-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/patrick-leahy-cuts-admiral-mike-mcconnell-a-new-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Leahy Cuts Admiral Mike McConnell a New One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004281.php\">lit into the Director of National Intelligence before his opening statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And well he should, McConnell is suggesting that oversight is aiding terrorists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>.<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">..Leahy pointed to a line in McConnell&#8217;s prepared statement suggesting that &#8220;some&#8221; do not appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaeda, and, visibly angry, warned him against accusing &#8220;any Senator on this panel&#8221; of playing fast and loose with national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">And he called on McConnell to end his &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; repeated comments that debating changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will mean that &#8220;some Americans are going to die.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AziEdyx2XdM\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AziEdyx2XdM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee lit into the Director of National Intelligence before his opening statement. And well he should, McConnell is suggesting that oversight is aiding terrorists. &#8230;Leahy pointed to a line in McConnell&#8217;s prepared statement suggesting that &#8220;some&#8221; do not appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaeda, and, visibly angry, warned him against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,978,1076,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-politics","category-terrorism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}