Political Correctness Kills Americans

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Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran with the CIA, created and served as the chief of the agency's Osama bin Laden unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He is also the author of "Imperial Hubris." Scheuer's insights in the piece below, P.C. kills Americans, are timely and telling.

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"History is replete with episodes of rats leaving a sinking ship."

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P.C. kills Americans
By Michael Scheuer
December 21, 2005 (Washington Times) -- If we die as a nation, Lincoln once said, it will be an act of national suicide. And so it seems we are. The media, led by The Washington Post, and Congress, led by Arizona Sen. John McCain, are moving America to disaster's brink by intentionally destroying its most successful counterterrorism tool: the CIA's rendition program.

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TENSION: Politically correct
GRAVITY: Status quo

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