Hugh Hewitt Has an Interesting Idea
Reading the latest post from Hugh Hewitt this morning, I came across this paragraph:
To that end my first modest suggestion is that the president order weekly detailed briefings on the war for every serious presidential candidate. (No Kucinich doesn’t count.) If these candidates have the information of the war and the enemy, we can only hope that they will conduct the campaign with the complete seriousness it deserves. Senators Biden, Brownback, Clinton, Edwards, McCain, Kerry, Governors Romney and Thompson, and Mayor Giuliani ought to have a senior intelligence officer assigned to them abound sent to them with as comprehensive a weekly update as security allows, conditioned of course on the recipient’s agreement that campaign staffs cannot be party to the material.That seems like an eminently sane proposal. I know politicians will play politics with information. I know it risks spreading classified information to people who may want to risk exposing it for personal political gain. That in itself is important information about a candidate.
I think his proposal should be given serious consideration by the administration.
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