Op-ed:

Thursday’s only the start...there’s more surprises to come

By: Diane Sori

As the saying goes, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

While all our attention is focused on the big events due out of DC on Thursday (the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare and Eric Holder’s contempt of Congress vote), let’s not forget there is another major incident that we must NOT lose focus on...the security leaks supposedly coming from this White House.

As if Eric Holder doesn’t have enough problems, yesterday a group of 31 senators from both sides of the aisle put pressure on him by presenting a letter demanding the appointment of a special ‘independent’ counsel to oversee the investigation into who leaked sensitive intelligence information (including possible U.S. involvement in cyber-attacks on Iran and an al Qaeda plot to place an explosive device aboard a US bound flight) that put the lives of our citizens, our troops, and our allies in danger. 

And when uber liberal Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joins in and says that she too is “deeply disturbed by the continuing leaks of classified information to the media,” Holder and Obama should know they are in deep doo-doo.

Holder continues to resist setting up a special ‘independent’ counsel (this from the same man who won’t turn over subpoenaed documents), and that in and of itself raises red flags, and that could be why the senators also let it be clearly known that a congressional investigation may be needed if an independent council, with ‘independent’ being the key word, is not set-up.

Why an independent council and NOT the Department of Justice, who would normally investigate things such as this?  Why...because the security leaks are not a single, isolated instance but are a multitude of leaks on major national security matters, and as such cannot be trusted to be investigated in a fair and straight forth manner by the DOJ.  If the DOJ did indeed conduct the investigation it would be like Obama and his administration investigating themselves, and you know that if that was the case NO ONE would be found guilty.

A few weeks ago Obama condemned the leaks saying, "We're dealing with issues that can touch on the safety and the security of the American people, our families, or our military personnel or our allies.” "We don't play with that, and it is a source of consistent frustration, not just for my administration, but for previous administrations when this stuff happens.” 

He went on in his bloviating saying that he promises that any in his administration found guilty would suffer consequences.

Yeah right...like ‘We the People’ trust or believe anything he says.  And what consequences would those found guilty suffer...maybe a week of ‘healthy’ dinners prepared by Michelle (insert sarcasm here).

Come on Obama, we all know NOTHING would happen as you probably, in my humble opinion, gave the go ahead to leak the information yourself!  Or at best you deliberately declassified information that should NOT have been declassified in the first place, thus allowing it to be released for political expediency because your poll numbers continue to drop.

And remember, you are famous for siding with our enemies instead of with our country or our military.

So my friends, as we all sit and nervously wait for Thursday’s rulings to come down, let’s NOT forget that the leaking of classified intelligence secrets, possibly by our own ‘enemy within,’ could very well be the mother lode of Barack Hussein Obama’s betrayal of not only our country but of ‘We the People’ as well.

Can you say traitor...