Sunday, December 10
Silvestre Reyes of EL Paso, Texas is the next Chairman of the powerful House Permanent Committee on Intelligence.
Catapulted past Nancy Harman of California and Alcee Hastings of Florida, Congressman Reyes (aka Silver), becomes the 1st Latino to Chair of Intelligence, and the first to run a permanent or full committee of the House of Representative.
Congratulations, Silver!
Unfortunately, Silver has already stumbled. The Congressional Quarterly's National Security Editor Jeff Stein's quizzed him on Islam's major branches and their sponsored militias and Silver misanswered on some of the questions.Unsolicited advice to Silver: Dust yourself off and get down to business.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the leftwing of the Democratic Party are not trusted by the anti-Islamists and pro-war factions of Washington. As her choice for Intelligence you are now a prime target. Quickly beef up your office's policy and communications capacity, learn the critical distinctions between the Middle East's religious sects and militias. And do not assume that the "national security" and/or "middle east" press are friends.
Silver is a decorated Vietnam veteran and a former U.S. Border sector chief. He is credited with a successful deterrence strategy for preventing border crossings in his sector. Silver won his House seat in 1999 and quickly developed a reputation as the Democrat's border and immigration expert in the House.
Sorry Silver, but Pinto was my horse.
Posted by USTaino at 8:19 AM
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