Posted on 01/10/2017 4:57:35 AM PST by HomerBohn
Silly Liberals, issuing a threat against someone who has more power than you is never a good idea.
The CIA is threatening mass resignations after Donald Trump takes office. Former CIA acting director Michael Morell said Trump’s “rhetoric” will cause a “wave of resignations” that will impact the agency’s ability to work with intelligence services around the world, the Hill reports.
“First, expect a wave of resignations. Attrition at the C.I.A., which has been remarkably low since Sept. 11, 2001, will skyrocket,” Morell wrote in a New York Times opinion column. “The primary motivator for some of our smartest minds to go to work at the C.I.A. is to make a difference to national security, to play a role in keeping the country safe.”
The President-elect is NOT going to America less safe, he is just going to put the right people in charge! Morell is correct about the mission of the CIA, at least.
If the staffers at the agency are so thin-skinned they cannot handle it when called to task for shoddy work, then we really need some new people in the agency anyway.
The mindset and demeanor of the Liberal agency leaders may have infected the ranks. That would be a shame, but a President Trump would have no problem finding highly skilled tech analysts in the private sector and bring in new recruits from within the government who have long been passed over because their views on world affairs were too Conservative and common sense imposed for the Barack Obama administration.
“All of the sacrifices — from the long hours, polygraph tests, unfair media criticism, not to mention the real dangers to life and limb — are worth it, if you are making a difference,” Morell continued. Unfair media criticism? The mainstream media has been carrying the water for the Obama administration for eight years – including the findings of the lackluster Russian hackers investigation.
Perhaps leaking the top secret report on the DNC hacking to NBC BEFORE it was given to Donald Trump has not endeared CIA brass to the President-elect. Morell went on to dub Trump’s comments about the Russian hacking investigation an “unprecedented political challenge for our national security establishment” and “a danger to the nation.”
Being questioned about the thoroughness of findings in an intelligence report is due diligence on the president-elect’s part. When neither the FBI nor the CIA even looked at the hacked laptops or the DNC server before deciding Russia did it, there is ample room for an authenticity and accuracy challenge from an incoming president.
The CIA is not supposed to be a politicized agency. But over the course of the past eight years it, like the Pentagon, has becoming increasingly partisan.
“His [Trump] disparagement of American intelligence officers over the last few months is likely to cause significant damage to the CIA,” Morell added. “Why would a foreign intelligence service take the CIA seriously (and share important information with it) when the American president doesn’t?”
The correct question to be asking is WHY doesn’t the future president take the CIA seriously – the agency heads should be scurrying to fix their credibility problem and not making inane threats. Trump will leave no Washington, D.C. swamp left un-drained.
www.angrypatriotmovement.com/cia-threatens-trump/
Pension envy?
Buh-bye. A-holes.
Notice how Morrell conflates criticism of leftist political appointees’ distortion of intel to attack Trump and constrain his future foreign policy into Trump criticizing “intelligence agents.”
Not so long ago, 50 (or was it 100?) intel analysts blew the whistle on their conclusions being totally distorted to make it appear that the Obama was defeating ISIS, etc. Some rank and file are Democrat stooges. The people worth keeping are no doubt fed up with corrupt management that perverts their work as it moves “upstream” to push fake narratives within our own government. Morrell must think that is satisfying to the people risking their lives.
Seriously? Duh! Any organization reflects the man (or woman) at the top. You're darn tootin' that the liberal ideology has filtered down to the agents in the eight years of Obama's Marxist ideology, where America is bad and our historically-avowed enemies are supposedly our friends.
Look for Trump to clean house of all these agency heads and some in their department's bureaucracies. Trump will need national intelligence while president, just not Obambi's version.
A self-draining swamp??
One can only hope, but this sounds more to me like Hollyweird threatening to self deport. I think they’ll need some help with a forceful boot.
FMOKM
Lots of very capable guys that have been shooting it out with Jihadists for the past 15 years looking for a job. This shouldn’t be an issue. Bye!
All governmental offices are partisan, there should be a massive draining of the swamp.
Uh, no. I'm still working with a healthy IRA. Cocky response. I and millions like me in the private sector help fund your bloated government pension at the same time we are trying to save for our own retirement. Do you contribute to my IRA?
Disintegrate it into an octillion subatomic particles, & heat them into a self-consuming plasma.
This line says a lot.
Acknowledging that some agents may have specialized skills and knowledge of value... sounds like some Donna’s need a reality check.
Suggest those not willing to serve should give notice, transition knowledge, read the riot act about National secrets, given a cardboard box for their stuff, escorted to the parking lot, given a handshake and told goodbye. No more, no less.
Mass resignations would be a good thing. It will make it far easier to purge the CIA of liberal activists...
I contributed 7% of my income to help fund that pension. I also paid income tax on my salary as well as on my current pension. I also have an IRA that I funded like you have.
I didn't make the rules on my "bloated pension." Our elected representatives did. You had the choice of working for the federal government. You chose not to despite the benefits. I am not embarrassed about collecting my pension. I earned it by putting myself in harm's way along with the many hardships endured by my family.
I support government reform of the federal employment system. There are many ways to make it more equitable and not exceed the benefits available in the private sector. But don't castigate me personally for the benefits I receive as part of the contract I had with the federal government on my employment terms and conditions.
Just like “...hundreds of FBI Agents will resign if Hillary not indicted.” Ya. And I look good in a pink tutu...
The CIA is a joke, always has been. If you want some bumbling fool who thinks she’s smarter than anyone in any room, just pick any random CIA employee.
Wow, what a story. I hereby award you “The Government Pension Medal of Honor”. Congratulations.
Polygraph every employee. It’s about time we learn the truth about what is going on in the CIA.
You are correct with this statement.
When I had that choice it was low pay but good benefits for a government job.
Now it is high pay and even better benefits.
I wonder how that happened over the last 40 years.
The parasites voted themselves pay raises and voted us tax raises in parallel.
That's how it happened.
“First, expect a wave of resignations. “
Whatever. Like the Nazis, they need a paycheck.
Perhaps leaking the top secret report on the DNC hacking to NBC BEFORE it was given to Donald Trump has not endeared CIA brass to the President-elect.
Huh?
You effin eff’d up.
How does your irresponsible leak equate to a present problem?
The sentence makes no sense...
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