After words with Bill Gertz on CSPAN

Cspan Book TV ^

[vivabushchick]

Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, argues that high-level bureaucrats in the State Department, White House, Pentagon, and CIA have repeatedly undermined the Bush administration's national security policies. Mr. Gertz says that these unelected officials - liberals from both political parties - have pursued their own agendas towards countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and Iraq and have weakened U.S. security as a result. Mr. Gertz discusses his book with Frank Gaffney, president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy.

[vivabushchick]

As I said to my friend that forwarded this to me; fasinating information from Bill Gertz as it is these internal workings that make all the difference in policy making. Bad enough what's been going on during a Republican(RINO)administration; don't know what's to come from the most liberal president ever elected.

vivabushchick signing off.

[philly-d-kidder]

The State Department was the worst... But Condie was not an administrator..noted when all Top Managment resigned at one point!!

[icwhatudo]

One of the biggest unreported stories of Bush’s 8 years. The Joe Wilson story came close to revealing this “government within a government” but reporters went down a different road instead.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

was? you mean IS. And it’s only to get worse. Seems that many didn’t think they got enough abuse during the Clinton years and yearn for even more abuse by electing Obama. The appeasers that are now in charge are about to put this country in the greatest risk it’s ever been.

[vivabushchick]

To All: The book is, “The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War”, by Bill Gertz

[vivabushchick]

Of course, it didn’t serve their purpose.

[philly-d-kidder]

Condaleeza Rice was not an administrator....That was her major flaw! She had no Friends to backfill the Jobs...in major Positions and she had to beg the Lefties to return and they walked all over her..! i like her ...

[Darkwolf377]

Eight years late and billions short. (Not blaming Gertz.)

Imagine what the past eight years would have been like if the Dems and MSM had this "Let's all get together and try to help the president" attitude?

I wish the Dems would really think about that.

[WoofDog123]

I suspect substantial parts of the referenced bureaucracy are simply bought/paid off by foreign interests. ‘Follow the money.’

[Kent C]

Off topic but speaking of ‘After Words’, they are replaying Chris Horner “Red Hot Lies” - anti-global warming... today Sunday at Noon on cspan 2 (check local listings ;-)

[nathanbedford]

In this much to be recommended interview, Bill Gertz lays out the elements of the axis of evil which puts America at risk through its infiltration of the State Department, the intelligence apparatus, and even (gasp) the Defense Department, both civilian and uniformed. The axis is implemented by a virtual fifth column of leftist America haters in these institutions and augmented by a willing cohort of fellow travelers in the media, especially the New York Times.

Those of us who have even a passing acquaintance with the Valerie Plame affair and the other leaks compromising national security which appeared in the New York Times, had prima facie evidence of this situation. Important to credibility, Bill Gertz names names and apportions blame.

It is hardly necessary in this forum to spend bandwidth describing the declensions of the Clinton administration and the obvious leftists who have undermined sound Bush policies. Bill Gertz speaks in an understated manner so one must listen with an attentive ear or some of his remarkable utterances might go on remarked. For example, Gertz stated that he believes that the leftist blaming of America for every negative situation in the world as part of their deliberate opposition to America. In effect, they're one step short of outright treachery.

But it is important to note that Gertz is unsparing of the fecklessness of President Bush in clinging to his naïve love of bipartisanship in permitting his administration to be undercut everywhere by holdovers and even some of his own appointments of the liberal persuasion. "He did not know how Washington works."

Although Gertz did recite some practical remedies which should be enacted, unfortunately, interviewer Gaffney did not sound him out on the implications for the defense of the Republic of an OBAMA administration where the very people who have inflicted disastrous policies on us relating to Iran, North Korea, and China are now to be elevated from their fifth column to magisterial positions.

God save the Republic.

[iopscusa]

Also of interest to the infitrated bureaucracy is this correlated post on FR regarding Richard Perle’s version: Ambushed on the Potomac, National Interest ^ | January 6, 2009.

[nathanbedford]

Thanks for the heads-up but I just finished posting on it, if you are interested. A remarkable coincidence that these two articles appear so close to each other.

[dcwusmc]

Bump

[KeyLargo]

www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-president-bd-18-jan18,0,5698434.column

chicagotribune.com

Name about the only thing likely to change

John Kass

5:03 PM CST, January 17, 2009

So we Americans mark the political liturgy in which we celebrate the exit of a president we’ve become tired of and the coronation of the cool new guy.

Much of it is predictable and the song remains the same: the sins of President George Bush, the promise of President-elect Barack Obama and, through it all, the media high priests for the Republicans and Democrats waft their incense over the faithful.

Republicans are worried once again about a gargantuan federal government. And Democrats, once so horrified of Republican federal excess, are themselves trembling, yearning to grab the levers and increase the size of the federal state even beyond the hopes of their GOP predecessors......