Backing their heated rhetoric about “our greatest national security threat” with their wallets, Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are diverting anti-terror intel funds to study global warming.
According to the Washington Times and the Post, the House next week will consider a provision directing an assessment of the effects that climate change has on national security. The item was voted out of committee along partisan lines, and Republicans are furious at the diversion.
“Spending more on intelligence, but not spending it on the right priorities, is not the same as strengthening our intelligence community,” said Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the committee’s ranking Republican.”
“There are all kinds of people analyzing global warming, the Democrats even have a special committee on this,” he told the Washington Times. “There’s no value added by the intelligence community here; they have no special expertise, and this takes money and resources away from other threats.”
“We’re concerned that global warming might impact our ability to maintain national security,” panel Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), told the Times the climate-change study is one of several shifts his party has made to intelligence policy.
On more example of why Democrats are politically vulnerable on national security issues.