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Excellent point, Frankly!!
The politicization of the CIA and FBI have contributed mightily to the problems we are having fighting terror. I think there's something to the notion that many of the leaks of classified anti-terror information have come from poolitical hacks within the agencies who think it's mroe important to screw the opposing party than to protect the nation's interest. I don't have her name handy (Mary McCarthy?) but the woman who admitted to such leaks this past winter was indeed a Clinton and Kerry supporter, as were Valerie Plame and Lyin' Joe Wilson.
As for other comparisons between the States and Canada, when I was in Edmonton last summer I got a huge earful from conservatives out there who said that we Americans have greater freedoms than they do.
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WriterofLight
on June 6, 2006 at 8:08 PM
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the big difference between how the Cdn and US agencies act...
....is that in Canada, CSIS (our version of the CIA) and the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police; our verison of the FBI) do not flout their existence, ARE NOT POLITICAL ANIMALS and are free to operate within the law as they see fit and do not pander to any one political party. Because they are not political, we actually trust them to do their jobs quietly and with great care. I also think there's a little bit of the British M5 flavour to the whole security methodology in Canada in that they are very good at operating in a covert fashion. They know too, that at the end of each investigation, there will be a full public reckoning on how information and intelligence was gathered and if they slipped up and trampled on any constitutional rights, they will be held accountable for those illegal actions. OK. I'm rambling. Suffice to say though, that our rights and freedoms are far more liberal and encompassing than those individual rights in the US are; the RCMP get the job done smartly and efficiently because of no political affiliations, whereas in the US, this is not the case.
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FranklyMydear1
on June 6, 2006 at 8:15 AM
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