I could be totally wrong but in my view an administration that can’t launch a website after 3 years and 300 million is not much of a threat to the republic.
This admin IS a threat to The republic and all its legal citizens.
I’m not that convinced that the failure of the website wasn’t purposeful. This is the 2nd decade of the 21st century. We have 12-year-olds who can take a template and put up a working commercial website. The website problems are said to be in the connections to the other Federal databases and yet, we are told daily since 2008 that the administration and the dem party’s strength has been in their ability to co-ordinate all the private info they have in their databases in order to manipulate vote totals.
Why would they need to kill a couple of staff officers? They maybe did need to kill several investigative reporters for whom they perhaps had less leverage than some military officer. But maybe they were able to neuter these guys just by removing them from the chain of command.
Rather than foment a military coup by providing heroes, they are taking away as many promised military perks as they can: Tricare, commissaries, pension reductions, unending deployment and punishing the rest of us by ending the ICBM installations and I have forgotten all the other military protections that seem to be vanishing daily.
So: how large was the supposed nuke? What degree of seismic disturbance could be reasonably expected from which size nuke? Do we trust USGS to accurately report the depth/degree of the supposed detonation. If another nuke was *hidden*, why can’t NEST find it? Was it dismantled and were the components separated, with the emitting portions placed somewhere among other emitters, making it difficult to locate? Is the hidden nuke insurance? If so, could that explain not killing the officers? How many enlisted/NCOs had to be in on the plot? What is their status? How much info/evidence is hidden and set for release if something did take out the perpetrators?
As for competence, it is a matter of definition. Look how swiftly the USA has been gutted, while maintaining the facade of *normalcy*? The shutdown was theater, but it was leveraged into the doom and is still cited as a reason for various failures, including that of the website. If it was just Kabuki, why did the major TBTF banks release their contingency planning recently? What else did the honchos at JPMorgan Chase, et al, know about any future potential collapse that prompted them to set up systems to guarantee benefit/entitlement payments of $5B/month, stock ATMs, set alternate reporting mechanisms in place to deal with failures to pay unsecured debt obligations, keeping people’s credit ratings intact?
As to the argument that CIA operatives are untrustworthy: perhaps today they are. But this person supposedly is retired and therefore was perhaps in the CIA at a time when such folks were honorable and more capable. Is it just a fluke that today we read constantly of compromised SS and intelligence operatives who are so decadent that they would never have even passed a security clearance just 10 years ago?
Too many questions in an atmosphere lacking in trust.
Excellent points and questions - and they deserve to be investigated and answered. But who could we trust to do it? This government is totally compromised.
A question that popped into my head: If it is true that these fired military high-ups had really high security clearances, what are the odds that the military would dump them for using fake poker chips?
The website is being compared to Amazon.com. How much did Amazon spend to get their website up and running properly? How much have we paid to get OevilCare site not running? We need an accounting of where all those dollars are going. Is it going into hussein’s pocket? Are the 12 year old techs buying that many juice boxes? Is it being funneled into some other top secret project that is taking longer than the due date? Or is it being shipped out to our enemies?