Rep. Tom Tancredo: A lightning rod on immigration

From the Chicago Tribune:

While Tancredo's Republican bid is widely regarded as a long shot, the reaction he has received so far in Iowa shows his campaign can't be entirely dismissed, political analysts say. He hasn't left much of a footprint in Congress, and yet, driven by an anti-illegal immigrant wind, he now audaciously has become a single-issue candidate for president, his fists bared as he derides a bipartisan immigration reform plan being debated in the Senate or calls his opponents "soft."

Yes he is a single issue candidate. On every other issue he sounds exactly like the 8 other Republican candidates. But wait...there are 9 other candidates. Thats right, Tancredo sounds nothing like Ron Paul. But if immigration is your number one priority, along with looking for Jack Bauer in case of a national emergency (Tancredo said he would during the Republican Debates) then Tancredo might just be your man.

Romney and Tancredo Blast ABC Reporting on CIA’s Covert actions in Iran

Yesterday ABC News reported that President Bush had authorized the CIA to covertly destabilize Iran. GOP Presidential Candidates Mitt Romney and Tom Tancredo criticized the story. Both candidates claim that reporting this story risks American lives.

ABC News responded saying “In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground.”

With this kind of agitation against Iran and the problems in Iraq, I think it is essential that Americans know what is really going on. A free society can’t function with a highly secretive government. On the other hand, the candidates have a point…covert operations are not covert anymore once they’ve been released to the press. But the job of the press is to report what’s going on, it is the job of the CIA to keep their operations secret.