Louie Gohmert: “I thank my former judge friend. You brought up about our soldiers going door-to-door in Iraq looking for the three…”

“I thank my former judge friend. You brought up about our soldiers going door-to-door in Iraq looking for the three soldiers that are missing, how critical intelligence is. Now, I know the gentleman from Texas, my friend, the gentlelady from Tennessee, you both recall, though none of us were in Congress, I recall, because I was in the Army, and when President Carter started making Draconian cuts in our intelligence, and started cutting out critical areas of intelligence that would help us in the military, it hurt. Now, when you are in the military, you cannot say anything derogatory about your Commander in Chief, that is a court martialable offense. But we took up an intelligence bill, and, of course, as we know, some of the information that we have to go up and review in a classified setting, in a top secret setting, and things we learned cannot be revealed and will not be disclosed and divulged, but something that has been discussed on this floor in that intelligence bill is we cut some vital programs.”