Taxation Without Representation Politicians pretend Americans love war, which insults our intelligence and diverts our attention from the important issues.
Every city needs competent police and alert intelligence – that is not diverted into the reckless surveillance of all and sundry.
Washington also missed potential warning signs because intelligence resources had been diverted to the Atlantic theater, he said, and the Japanese deftly practiced deception to mislead Americans about the whereabouts of Tokyo's naval strike force.
At critical moments in the fight for Afghanistan, the Bush administration diverted scarce intelligence and reconstruction resources to Iraq, including elite C.I.A. teams and Special Forces units involved in the search for terrorists.
Across the country, policemen and intelligence agents have been diverted from hunting terrorists to arresting lawyers, who apparently are being assessed as the greater threat to the general's rule.
And echoing other administration critics like the former counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, he adds that the war against Iraq diverted crucial intelligence and military resources from the war against Al Qaeda.
The American pursuit of Bin Laden was running high: Qaeda operatives had attacked an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and nightclubs in Indonesia, and with C.I.A. intelligence resources not yet diverted to Iraq, the search was firmly focused on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.
Yet even before Thursday, the view among Democrats and even some Republicans was that Mr. Nunes was given access to the intelligence reports to divert attention from the investigations into Russian meddling, and to bolster Mr. Trump's debunked claims of having been wiretapped.
The war on terror has actually suffered as the conflict in Iraq has diverted military and intelligence resources from places like Afghanistan, where there could really be Qaeda forces, including Mr. bin Laden.
ANILA ALI Irvine, Calif., May 3, 2011 To the Editor: While elated over the killing of Osama bin Laden, I can't help observing that his death would likely have occurred years earlier if the Bush administration hadn't diverted military and intelligence resources from seeking to capture or kill him to initiating the senseless war in Iraq, which did not pose the danger to us that Bin Laden did.
