FAIL rides again.
Posted on 12/29/2009 11:42:54 AM PST by Schnucki
The latest grand intelligence failure of the Obama administration – setting up a system so flawed that last week it allowed a Muslim terrorist with a bomb aboard a US passenger jet – reminds me of the incredible level of stupidity I first experienced as a young Army Intelligence officer under President Jimmy Carter.
For those of you who don’t remember him, Carter (like Obama) was elected as a centrist Democrat in 1976. But immediately after his election he showed his stripes as he appointed a cabinet packed with hard-core liberals and instituted a series of Leftist foreign and military policies. The post-Vietnam trauma was in full swing, and a very Left-wing US Congress pushed through policies that gutted the CIA’s ability to collect intelligence.
In those days the common assumption was that our police and intelligence agencies were the bad guys and that intelligence collection was morally wrong. The morally righteous Carter administration, however, was going to fix all that and put those things in the past. One of the typical “reforms” of the Carter era was a rule forbidding Military Intelligence from holding any files on Americans overseas who were associated with terrorist groups.
I was stationed with the US Army in Europe at the time and did some work supporting the counterintelligence effort. Indeed, there was a very genuine terrorist threat in those days. Groups such as Germany’s Baader Meinhof and Italy’s Red Brigades targeted and killed US and NATO soldiers, so counterintelligence was taken very seriously.
In the late 1970s Army Counterintelligence had some files on individuals, including American citizens, who had close connections to European terrorist groups. The files included detailed reports on Americans who had travelled to Europe and carried out surreptitious arms and explosives training with groups that employed violence and terror to
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I remember.
Detroit is perfect for the jihadis; it already looks like Beruit.
At least Carter was not a muslim like O.
It’s starting to look a lot like Carter .... every where I go.
yet there are people even today canonizing Jimmy .. strange world.
I was 30 when Carter was elected. What a complete joke. Had someone asked me at the time if I could ever imagine a worse president I would have said, NO WAY COULD THAT EVER HAPPEN!!. Color me wrong.
Some interesting comments at the link. A lot of people still have their heads up their collective a$$es...
Detroit = New Falujah
I remember. But it is striking to think how long ago it was. Carter was just protecting communists here and abroad. It’s what communists do. This country needs to go Chile on its commies.
Man, you are my age. Condolences. :D)
Jimmy Carter raised by an exponential power.
Apparently there are no painless options available. Either we take the necessary steps to protect ourselves, or we take it in the shorts (literally) and allow the jihadists free access to our vulnerabilities.
Start profiling. Yesterday. Not against the dark-skinned bearded men with burning eyes.
Just the people with the burning eyes and expressing certain body language. They may be blue-eyed blondes.
“Allahu akbar!” is a dead giveaway.
Johan de Meulemeester frequently haunts the comment pages of the Daily Telegraph. An anti-american, pro-EU, Belgian, anti-semitic, pro-jihadist euroweenie of the worst kind.
FAIL rides again.
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