Of all the federal agencies charged with looking after our national interests, one would think the Pentagon — the military arm of our massive federal bureaucracy — would be immune from partisan political bickering.
Guess again.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, no doubt seeking to change the subject from his indictment back home over abuse of power and coercion, says Islamic terrorists might have slipped into the United States across our southern border.
How did that play in the Pentagon? Not well.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/215761-pentagon-no-evidence-of-isis-at-southern-border
“I’ve seen no indication that they are coming across the border with Mexico. We have no information that leads us to believe that,” Admiral John Kirby, press secretary for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Kirby said the governor has no basis for making that suggestion, which he did in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Perry is considering a run for president in 2016. He’ll have to dispose of the indictment handed down the other day in Travis County. Good luck with that, governor.
He’s going to be making more of these statements in the weeks and months to come, especially after he leaves the governor’s office in January.
It is troubling that politicians are able to make assertions without providing a scintilla of evidence.
ISIL — or ISIS, as it is also known — is a despicable terrorist organization that has taken credit for the beheading of American journalist James Foley in Syria. Have the monsters infiltrated our southern border? Kirby says the Pentagon has no evidence of that happening.
That won’t stop the Texas governor from making potentially reckless statements. He’s got a proven record of it already.