It is well known that after the Cold War ended, United States intelligence took a deep blow that ended up leaving the nation unprepared for an enemy who was already building. Despite numerous attacks and two different declarations of war given by Osama bin Laden, the CIA was still under-funded and treated with disdain.

Things changed on September 11, and the CIA was given more leeway to act as they saw fit. Increased funding was given and preperations were made to try to transform the agency into getting more field agents in which the agency had cut over the decade prior.

As a result of the 2006 mid-term elections putting Democrats in charge of Congress, I didn’t think there would be any real change in this regard. It appears I was wrong and there will be a change, and that change is to make the issue of climate change an intelligence operation. What?

The House next week will consider the Democrat-crafted Intelligence Authorization bill, which includes a provision directing an assessment of the effects that climate change has on national security . . .

Intelligence panel Chairman Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat, said the climate-change study is one of several shifts his party has made to intelligence policy.

“We’re concerned that global warming might impact our ability to maintain national security,” he told The Times, describing the idea as “cutting edge.”

“We want to get feedback from the intelligence community to understand if there are possible global issues,” Mr. Reyes said.

I suppose that’s good news the CIA will try to determine if warmer weather will somehow make jihadists more determined to remake the world in their shadow?

I imagine much of this comes on the heels of an old Osama bin Laden statement that one of the reasons he declared war against the United States was due to global warming.  The terror chief did in fact say that, but it’s bogus and was stated only to find allies in non-Islamic nations.  While I won’t call Reyes an ally of OBL, he seems to have bought the OBL line hook, line and sinker.

Remember though, this is the same man who had no clue what the difference between Sunni and Shia is, stating “it’s not like the Hatfields and the McCoys, it’s a heck of a lot more complex.” And now he’s determined divert funds used to gather intelligence of America’s enemies and find out if climate change will do anything.

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