From the New York Times, January 6, 2010:

In the days since the attack, details of the lives of the victims — five men and two women, including two C.I.A. contractors from the firm formerly known as Blackwater — have begun to trickle out, despite the secretive nature of their work. What emerges is a rare public glimpse of a closed society, a peek into one sliver of the spy agency as it operates more than eight years after the C.I.A. was pushed to the front lines of war.

My motivations are simple:  there are no political issues that matter as much as our national security.  All else pales in comparison.

What does a public option health care plan matter if emboldened and enabled terrorists rampage through our towns and cities?

What does gay marriage or educational vouchers or welfare or vaccinations or taxes or housing markets or election campaigns matter if our nation is unsecure and terrorized by radicals hell-bent on destroying our way of life?!

As reported at the UK's telegraph by Andrew Osborn in Moscow:

A former horse riding school in the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists, it has been claimed.

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BREAKING NEWS (via E. Farris): The Obama Administration was aware months ago that the Ft. Hood shooter was trying to contact Al Qaeda terrorists and did nothing and now refuses to brief the House Intelligence Committee.

As indicated by an ABC News Online article, intelligence sources had a level of knowledge that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda assets abroad. The source went further, stating that this and information similar but not directly related to such communications became a “political issue” between government agencies and officials “at the policy making levels” of the administration.

According to this source, the now infamous pre-9/11 walls erected within government agencies have returned, “but this time they are higher and stronger.”