Lehman needs to get used to the notion that Obama prefers a "kinder, gentler" approach.
Posted on 01/07/2010 4:18:29 PM PST by SE Mom
Edited on 01/07/2010 5:18:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
After watching President Obama’s remarks on national security this afternoon, John Lehman, the secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a member of the 9/11 Commission, tells National Review Online that, “frankly, I’m pissed off.”
“President Obama just doesn’t get it,” says Lehman. “I don’t think he has a clue. It’s all pure spin. He’s ignoring key issues and taking respectable professionals like John Brennan and turning them into hacks and shills. It’s beyond contempt.”
“The president has ignored the 9/11 Commission’s report,” says Lehman. “This whole idea that we can fix things by jumping higher and faster is ridiculous. The fact is that the system worked just like we said it would work if the president failed to give the Director of National Intelligence the tools he needs: it’s bloated, bureaucratic, layered, and stultified.”
“President Obama continues to totally ignore one of the important thrusts of our 9/11 recommendations, which is that you have to approach counterterrorism as a multiagency intelligence issue, and not as a law-enforcement issue. He’s made a lot of commission’s members angry for dismissing our report and ignoring key recommendations.” Obama, he adds, has taken a “lawyer-like, politically-correct approach” to national security issues like terrorist watchlists and no-fly lists. “You got to blame the president for enforcing politically-correct and legalistic policies that led to these failures.”
Lehman lets loose, ping!
Above his pay grade, Lehman, it’s all above his pay grade, and that is a downright failure on a multitude of levels given he is................................. POTUS. =.=
SecNav John S. Lehman was my first re-enlisting officer(1984). SecNav Lehman RULES!
impressive............
Obambi continues to preside over “Amature Hour”... his TV “report” was the usual twaddle, designed to focus attention on “the system” and deflect it away from the specific people responsible: DHS (Napolitano), CIA and NSA and, most of all, himself. Heads should roll (including his) but they won’t—after all, it’s “the system”...
WOW!
This is excellent.
Finally, at long last, someone important speaks out!
He certainly has him pegged on this.
Imagine the discussions that go on privately in DC.
SHAM wow!
PING!
Lehman needs to get used to the notion that Obama prefers a "kinder, gentler" approach.
And you can bet that Obama has Jamie Gorelick’s complete devotion and fidelity.
Just so embarassing...what a doofus we have.
thank God someone is speaking up.
ping
Has he revealed which commission members, and which recommendations?
That’s gonna leave a mark.
“Instant Review [Cliff May]
Watching the White House briefing and my reaction: This is much too bureaucratic to be reassuring.
Also, what I think most Americans already grasp:
1) The father says his son may have joined al-Qaeda. One phone call should have been enough to cancel the kid's visa to the U.S. Why didn't that happen? I didn't hear an answer.
2) Abdulmutallab buys his one-way ticket with cash, has no luggage, and has been in Yemen for the past few months. So you pull him out of line, question him and screen him. Why didn't that happen? I didn't hear an answer.
And:
White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane
So where's the shock? What was new? What did I miss?”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTJiMmI1YmM4NjZkZWJjNzg5ODUwMWFiMzQ4ZWM1YWE=
Ohaha's protecting the turf of insiders and lefties, to the exclusion of American interests. Ohaha doesn't get it------ terrorists are watching and parsing his every word, calculating what they can get away with next.
Out of all the democrats that had to win in 2008, we ended up with the worst ever.
Never mind the american voters voting for this clown but the Dem party needs total dismantling for what they thrust upon us. Negligence of the worst kind. I mean its amazing when Republicans are even wishing it had been Hillary over this clown. At least she’s American through and through.
Commission, tells National Review Online that, “frankly, I’m pissed off!”
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