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Sunday, December 12, 2004

What is the most serious threat to national security?


The current political apparatus has not been very productive lately.  Even though the Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House, they have shown signs of degenerating into a quagmire of infighting, barely able to pass the 9/11 reforms. 

Perhaps they should take on something that ought to be easy to pass, and is just as important.  In the first debate, both major Presidential candidates agreed on the answer to the question: What is the most serious threat to national security?

In this post, I review the recent news reports to see what Bush has done to address the issue.  I also look at the controversy that has come up over recent allegations that the Bush Administration distorted and misrepresented the intelligence data that indicated a looming nuclear threat in North Korea, and how well that situation has been handled.  Read the rest at The Rest of the Story