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The infiltration of The Fifth Column goes further than the simple act of two disgruntled political has-beens filing a nuisance lawsuit against an administration faced with the possibility of an escalating global conflict.

In a letter to the president, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) expressed his concern about the affect of The Fifth Column inside the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the letter he stated he has long been, "concerned that a strong and well-positioned group within the agency intentionally undermined the administration and its policies," and that the dissident faction had taken over the CIA. The congressman alluded to the idea that this "dissident faction" had been quite successful in politicizing the agency suggesting that they were responsible for the alarming number of instances of leaked classified information currently surfacing in the mainstream media.

Even on Capitol Hill, the affects of The Fifth Column can bee seen.

Recently, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) approached House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in an effort to get her to attach her name to a joint resolution supporting Israel in their battle against Hezbollah and Hamas, two internationally recognized terrorist groups. Pelosi's response was that unless it included politically correct language asking that both sides concern themselves with limiting civilian casualties she could not sign on. Of course, by including such language Pelosi would have had the United States House of Representatives recognizing Hezbollah and Hamas as legitimate entities worthy of seats at a negotiating table rather than the terrorist organizations that they are.

The Fifth Column in the United States, political correctness at the ready, has been demanding that the rest of the country view the world, its crises and its conflicts, through the rose-colored and warped glasses of moral relativism, even to the point of lending terrorist organizations legitimacy on the world stage. The tragedy in this avenue of thinking is that sooner or later, the appeasement mentality of this "can't we all just get along" crowd will result in all out heads being on the chopping block, literally.

Actions that allow for terrorist entities to take a seat at any negotiating table legitimize their existence. Negotiating ceasefires with radical Islamist groups whose own tenets demand that they misinform, deceive and lie to their enemies only serves to allow them to re-arm and re-group in preparation for future battles. As long as The Fifth Column in this country refuses to admit that there is evil in the world and that it doesn't discriminate between the politically correct and the infidel we will never be rid of the conflicts, such as the one we are witnessing in the Middle East today.

Just as Nancy Pelosi has no business demanding that verbiage be added to a resolution that would recognize terrorists as legitimate entities, the CIA has no business creating policy -- foreign or otherwise -- for the people of the United States. And just as our nation has no more time for the narcissistic stylings of Joe Wilson and Val Plame, so too do we have no more time to waste on The Fifth Column, their ignorance and their arrogance.

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