Posted on 01/10/2017 4:57:35 AM PST by HomerBohn
Silly Liberals, issuing a threat against someone who has more power than you is never a good idea.
The CIA is threatening mass resignations after Donald Trump takes office. Former CIA acting director Michael Morell said Trump’s “rhetoric” will cause a “wave of resignations” that will impact the agency’s ability to work with intelligence services around the world, the Hill reports.
“First, expect a wave of resignations. Attrition at the C.I.A., which has been remarkably low since Sept. 11, 2001, will skyrocket,” Morell wrote in a New York Times opinion column. “The primary motivator for some of our smartest minds to go to work at the C.I.A. is to make a difference to national security, to play a role in keeping the country safe.”
The President-elect is NOT going to America less safe, he is just going to put the right people in charge! Morell is correct about the mission of the CIA, at least.
If the staffers at the agency are so thin-skinned they cannot handle it when called to task for shoddy work, then we really need some new people in the agency anyway.
The mindset and demeanor of the Liberal agency leaders may have infected the ranks. That would be a shame, but a President Trump would have no problem finding highly skilled tech analysts in the private sector and bring in new recruits from within the government who have long been passed over because their views on world affairs were too Conservative and common sense imposed for the Barack Obama administration.
“All of the sacrifices — from the long hours, polygraph tests, unfair media criticism, not to mention the real dangers to life and limb — are worth it, if you are making a difference,” Morell continued. Unfair media criticism? The mainstream media has been carrying the water for the Obama administration for eight years – including the findings of the lackluster Russian hackers investigation.
Perhaps leaking the top secret report on the DNC hacking to NBC BEFORE it was given to Donald Trump has not endeared CIA brass to the President-elect. Morell went on to dub Trump’s comments about the Russian hacking investigation an “unprecedented political challenge for our national security establishment” and “a danger to the nation.”
Being questioned about the thoroughness of findings in an intelligence report is due diligence on the president-elect’s part. When neither the FBI nor the CIA even looked at the hacked laptops or the DNC server before deciding Russia did it, there is ample room for an authenticity and accuracy challenge from an incoming president.
The CIA is not supposed to be a politicized agency. But over the course of the past eight years it, like the Pentagon, has becoming increasingly partisan.
“His [Trump] disparagement of American intelligence officers over the last few months is likely to cause significant damage to the CIA,” Morell added. “Why would a foreign intelligence service take the CIA seriously (and share important information with it) when the American president doesn’t?”
The correct question to be asking is WHY doesn’t the future president take the CIA seriously – the agency heads should be scurrying to fix their credibility problem and not making inane threats. Trump will leave no Washington, D.C. swamp left un-drained.
www.angrypatriotmovement.com/cia-threatens-trump/
LOL. Reads like a moonbat Paul Krugman opinion piece. If this is the caliber of the CIA we are in deep trouble.
They won’t resign as they are overpaid and life is good - at least the CIA management.
Winner. These are leftists employed by fed gov. All just sit around the office telling each other how fabulously principled they are. But since they have mortgages they will be happy to cash any check signed by President Trump.
Yeah, resigning before they can get canned!
Resignations? Great, don’t let the door hit you in the backside on the way out, and don’t steal any pens. If they can’t give 100% to the new President, I don’t want them in there. Plenty of talent on the way up, make room.
and if they self identified, shouldn’t not only quite/be fired, but also be prosecuted for not doing the job they were hired to do but taking their political leanings above what they are hired to do at the risk of the security of our people?
I wonder if they would want to move to Venezuela and make it a double benefit.
So we are supposed to believe that decades of CIA demonization by movies, democRATS, newspapers, TV shows etc didn’t induce them to quit, but some some comments by Trump will cause mass resignations? Sure.
It seems that the FBI and the CIA both contain a number of black hats and white hats. My impression is that the FBI has a higher number of white hats and the CIA has a higher number of black hats.
If they’re the right agents (i.e.; the Lefty’s) that’s fine because probably only a half will be replaced with decent, competent contributors.
The company I worked for back in the late 70s hired a new group quality manager. Hard nosed but very fair fellow. His first day he put a box of “Resignation Forms” outside his office for anyone who wanted to quit. HR didn’t like it but the point was made.
Give up a cushy federal job? Health insurance most Americans don’t have, retirement that’s the best in ANY industry?
Riiiight.
MI/SOCOM Ping
"I want to scare Assad" Mike Morell (Aug 8, 2016) | Charlie Rose
It is very, very difficult to fire a federal employee.
If my recollection is correct, one of these great minds at the CIA was a KGB informant long ago. At about the same time, there was one at the FBI too.
Nice country you got there Mr. Trump, pity something should happen to it.
Good riddance to the left wing fascist sympathizing snowflakes. You quit and we don’t pay unemployment compensation. Your work has not been up to par any way.
“First, expect a wave of resignations.
There are just no ethics any more regarding the left. They are all talk and no action.
Go ahead please. Your replacements should only be hired on the basis of one for every five who resign.
IF TRUE, then good riddance to these fools. Maybe Trump can build a better CIA.
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