What is it about comic book characters and picking up cars?
Posted on 07/30/2019 5:02:34 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his choice for the next U.S. spy chief as someone who could "rein in" intelligence agencies that "have run amok," fueling concerns Trump seeks assessments that support his own views.
Trump's choice of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas as the next director of national intelligence, has been greeted with scant enthusiasm by his fellow Republicans and charges by former intelligence officials and Democrats that he is unqualified and will frame intelligence to suit the president.
Ratcliffe, a member of the House Intelligence Committee for six months, would replace Dan Coats, whose judgments on Iran, North Korea and Russia's interference in the 2016 elections clashed with Trump's views, earning the president's disdain.
Returning to the White House from an appearance in Virginia, Trump on Tuesday said Ratcliffe "is going to do an incredible job, if he gets approved" by the Senate.
"I think we need somebody like that in there," he continued. "We need somebody strong that can rein it in. Because, as I think you've all learned, the intelligence agencies have run amok. They have run amok."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
In the 16th century, visitors to Southeast Asia first reported on a psychiatric disorder known in Malay as amok.
Typically, the afflicted person (usually a Malay man) attacked bystanders in a frenzy, killing everyone in sight until he collapsed or was himself killed.
By the 17th century English speakers had adopted both the noun and adverb forms of amok, as well as the phrase run amok, a translation of the Malay verb mengamok.
The psychopathological behavior the noun amok refers to is now recognized to occur worldwide in numerous countries and cultures.
As for the adverb, time has mitigated its violent nature; nowadays it usually describes the actions of the unruly and not the murderous. "
i wonder just how long the intel agency DS types will take this before attempting to strike back in some way...
(ditto for Boris Johnson...)
:( :( :(
You mean the President wants somebody he trusts to oversee the intelligence community? How shocking!
Lessay in Russia you staged a coupe and it FAILED:
What would happen to you?
A. Stern lecture
B. Sent to bed w/o dessert
C. 100 push-ups
D. Fed into a furnace, feet first, on film
“Attack” now means “to state an obvious truth.”
“Fueling concerns”. Interesting that the negative connotation is always pointed out no matter how tenuous it might be.
Better still — he should tweet-out just how they have been running amok, making sure he can back it up.
Hey, when the officers on the generals list suck it might just be time to promote a colonel. Worked for Eisenhower.
If concerns are fueled, wouldn’t that indicate excess CO2 emissions with the subsequent Gaia degradation?
phony dossiers
bogus FISA warrants
coups attempts on the President
colluding with Ukrainians
unmasking Americans illegally
How could anyone call that “running amok?”
Traitors. Hang them all.
I believe ‘amok’ is the only Malaysian word in the English language.
😝
Where you been)
“Fueling concerns” of the Deep State seditionists and coup plotters against candidate and then President Trump.
There, fixed it.
The intel agencies have only themselves to blame. The list of hyperpartisan rogues willing to flout the law in their quest to get Trump at all costs have seen to that.
They have always run amok..every once in awhile they are caught like Project MKUltra..but things go back to usual.
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