Congratulations my fellow Americans, the incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Sylvester Reyes will be able to plead ignorance when he funds the wrong efforts and terrorists destroy an American city. Because he’s being put up by Democrats to assume the position and he can’t even answer basic questions about the enemy.

Congressman Sylvester Reyes does not know
the enemy, but he does know Spanish!

The Congressional Quarterly asked Democratic Congressman Sylvester Reyes some basic questions about the enemy and he was so tied up in knots that he resorted to trying to answer in Spanish. Now I’ve seen some non-natives play like they “speak no English” when they wanted to avoid trouble, but seeing this kind of game from a member of Congress is just ridiculous.

Jeff Stein was the man who asked Reyes the questions and he was interviewed last night on FoxNews. Mr. Stein is not surprised at the responses because he’s seen so many people mess them up. He says members of the intelligence community know that members of that committee don’t know what they are talking about from their trips to Capitol Hill. He also mentioned that intelligence community members are appalled by Reyes’ inability to answer the questions, but some top FBI officials can’t answer them either!

You feeling safe?

See it and weep using the link below.
FoxNews’ Hannity and Colmes speak with Jeff Stein about Congressman Sylvester Reyes - WMV Video (Size: 4.29 MB)
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update 12/15/2006 11:49PM: You can read Jeff Stein’s Congressional Quarterly write-up about the conversation here.