As The Washington Free Beacon reveals in a must-read exposé, Radical Deborah Ross warned that American intelligence agencies were on the verge of becoming "all the more dangerous" in the months following 9/11.
Radical Ross had no problem bashing our intelligence agencies as "dangerous."
Yet, she can’t utter a single word about Barack Obama’s decision to send a $400 million ransom payment to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
WATCH: Deborah Ross Dodges Questions About Barack Obama’s $400 Million Ransom Payment To Iran
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The former chair of the DNC can’t guarantee that the $400 million cash ransom to Iran won’t fund terrorist groups.
Radical Ross’s response? It doesn’t provide her with an opportunity to attack the men and women who keep us safe so she can let it slide.
If Radical Ross needs an example of what actual danger looks like she should take a look in the mirror.
As conflicts continue to escalate – and as North Carolinians learn even more about her radical background, it’s clear that Deborah Ross’s naive worldview doesn’t just make her a flawed candidate – it makes her unfit to hold the office she seeks.
The Washington Free Beacon
By Brent Scher
August 18, 2016
As executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina in the months following 9/11, Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross voiced her concern that intelligence agencies were on the verge of becoming “all the more dangerous.”
Her concern was explained in length in the ACLU of North Carolina’s Winter 2001 newsletter, which featured a lengthy essay on how civil liberties were being sacrificed “in the name of national security.”
“We should never forget the historical abuses that have taken place in the name of national security,” the newsletter read. “The new federal law will unleash the intelligence agencies which are all the more dangerous given the new technological tools at the government’s disposal.”
Ross categorized legislative proposals to give new tools to the intelligence community as “very reactionary and very invasive” in a separate interview with North Carolina’s News and Observer.
Ross is currently advocating, however, for the intelligence community to “use all the tools at our disposal” if that is what is needed to protect Americans.
“Protecting Americans is Deborah’s top priority,” the national security page of her campaign website reads. “She believes our national security is strongest when we use all the tools at our disposal.” Ross also calls for “an intelligence community that will stay one step ahead of our enemies.”
The Ross campaign did not respond to multiple requests for clarification on her current view of how the intelligence community should operate.
Her Republican opponent, Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and has been critical of her lack of national security credentials.
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Ross has not been eager to focus on national security issues thus far in the campaign. An analysis of her campaign Twitter page since she launched her campaign last October finds that she has not mentioned Iran or the Islamic State.
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When Ross has been asked about national security issues during interviews, she has used awkward phrases, such as in a March interview when she said that ISIS must be taken care of with “sophisticated diplomacy.”
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