GOP Embassy-Attack Witch Hunt Blows CIA's Cover
It's hard to win the Global War On Terra with the Keystone Kongressmen on our side. In some sense of "on our side," anyway...
Yet more confirmation of something that's long been obvious: they hate Terra, and they hate Obama...but they hate Obama a lot more...
Yet more confirmation of something that's long been obvious: they hate Terra, and they hate Obama...but they hate Obama a lot more...
posted by Winston Smith at
7:20 AM
1 Comments:
Winston,
It's even worse than you think:
"For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration. House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012. (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration’s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.
Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security."
From:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-forget-about-big-bird/2012/10/09/5f9a411c-1258-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html
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