Posted on 03/15/2009 5:03:09 AM PDT by Scanian
Add president Obama's national intelligence czar, Dennis Blair, to the list of embattled top-level appointees. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral who attended Oxford with Bill Clinton, courted controversy among pro-Israel and anti-China activists this month when he named Charles (Chas) Freeman, an outspoken former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to chair the National Intelligence Council, a committee of the government's top intel analysts. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other pols complained to the White House, Freeman abruptly withdrew. Now both Republican and Democratic intel experts are raising questions about another Blair pick: John Deutch, a former CIA director once accused of major security lapses, who's been appointed to a temporary panel reviewing troubled, top-secret spy-satellite programs.
After Deutch resigned as CIA director in 1996, agency officials discovered he had stored hundreds of pages of classified files on his home computers, despite repeated warnings that they could be intercepted via the Internet. Because of the incident, Deutch was stripped of his high-level security clearances, and a criminal probe into the matter culminated in January 2001, when the ex-spy chief agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of mishandling classified material.
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As long as we’re on the subject of security risks, what’s Sandy Berger doing these days?
In 1996 the Peoples Republic of China was laundering millions of dollars through Charlie Trie, John Huang, etc. into the Clinton/Gore campaign, the DNC and numerous Democrats in Congress. Deutch may have been transferring top secret intel to the Chinese as part of the deal.
I’m surprised they didn’t tap Sandy Berger too for a threesome.
He's probably in charge of the "Secret and Greater classifications" documents at the National Archives...
Mark
We should all thank the Clintons, Gore, and the Democrat Party for paving the way for what we have now.
I find it difficult to believe that a 4-star would name these two chumps voluntarilly. My guess is that this is what he has to do to keep the post.
And Blair’s right up there with Wesley Clark.
Clinton sure could pick’em — to harm the military and the Constitution whenever possible.
When even NewsWeak has to report it, you know it’s a glaring issue.
Clinton, through HUD Secretary Cuomo, rewrote the eligibility standards at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 1994. By 2000 almost half the mortgages Fannie and Freddie held were sub prime and both outfits were probably insolvent at that time. He put cronies Raines, Johnson and Gorelick on the Fannie Mae board assuring that losses were covered up for years with a set of fake books.
It started with Carter and his naming Admiral Stansfied Turner to head the CIA. Turner was a disaster. Oh, and by the way, can anyone name a Navy Admiral with a successful career in the political realm since the end of World War II? (Please, no Zumwalt or Radford, or that egregious toady, Crowe, and certainly not Mullin.)
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