“Trying to impose speech codes on how to describe our enemy smacks of McCarthyism in reverse.”
“Hoekstra Effort to Strip Earmarks from Intelligence Bill Successful,” a press release from Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), May 7 (thanks to Patrick Poole):
…Hoekstra also sponsored an amendment, rejected by committee Democrats, that would prohibit the intelligence community from adopting speech codes that encumber accurately describing the radical jihadist terrorists that attacked America and continue to threaten the homeland.
“Trying to impose speech codes on how to describe our enemy smacks of McCarthyism in reverse,” Hoekstra said. “Al-Qaeda knows point blank that they want to kill Americans. How sad is it that as we approach the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we are still debating how to define our enemy?”…