Posted on 05/24/2024 4:48:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On May 16, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by three experienced intelligence officers, including one who has chronically politicized U.S. intelligence, who argued that the U.S. intelligence community (IC) is getting a bad rap at a critical point in history for unfortunate, unjustified reasons. Only the first part of the assertion is correct. Far more accurate would have been a judgment that the declining respect for the IC reflected in polls is a direct result of the recent partisan political activism and dishonesty of ostensibly respectable senior former intelligence officers and many inaccurate “leaks” by current intelligence officers, mainly against candidate and then President Donald Trump.
This activism is new. For many decades the organizational culture at the CIA, most importantly given its role of supporting presidents, was that intelligence officers inform all presidents as best they can in apolitical ways, whatever the receptivity of presidents to intelligence or the accuracy of their complaints about intelligence. People believed politicization of any sort -- from the political Right or Left -- damages the usefulness of intelligence and agency interests. Insightful intelligence officers such as the CIA’s Martin Petersen knew that intelligence had to perform well constantly to maintain presidential confidence and that errors in judgment and lapses in integrity had severely negative, long-term consequences. There was no need for an intelligence norm equivalent to the military’s normative prohibition on political activism by former generals and admirals because intelligence officers rarely were politically active. There had never been a General Douglas MacArthur-like challenge to presidential authority.
But President Obama sought to change the demographics and the political complexion of the federal work force, and intelligence leaders such as CIA director John Brennan (2013-2017) made clear that they intended to change the organizational cultures of agencies in politically significant ways. They succeeded
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JFK would say the intel agencies were corrupt long before 0bama.
Some individuals in intelligence, medicine, law, government, industry, education, religion, etc. deserve distrust. There are some untrustworthy individuals out there.
They are blatantly making citizens distrust government.
Are they setting us up for a reset?
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They also have fear on their side, as in the fear that they can (and will) destroy innocent lives.
The problem is that since the intel agencies live in the radical Left echo chamber, they don’t know they are mistrusted. In fact, they are not mistrusted by those on the radical Left.
let me translate “Obama stacked the deck!”.
US Intelligence is an oxymoron.
“JFK would say the intel agencies were corrupt long before 0bama.”
He found out what it was like to go against Dulles and the CIA, and to cross LBJ. They may have always had some corruption, and Truman said that the “Formation of the CIA was my biggest mistake”. However, the truly political aspects over trivial political stuff is a new low for the intelligence agencies.
The only way, IMHO, to fix it now is to utilize drastic measures. Marshall Law, and military investigations of members of the intelligence community (past and present) with confiscation of assets and public hanging. I know, it’s never going to happen. What will happen is that the rot will end up with a civil war, or WWIII, and millions to billions (many innocent) will die because we don’t have the fortitude to bring the guilty to justice. For the future dead innocents, it’s blood on Obama’s hands.
“They are blatantly making citizens distrust government.”
They are like a habitual cheating spouse saying “you can trust me now”.
Unamerican unconstitutional evil rogue police state parasitical bastards turned on their host.
The FBI was notoriously rotten during the reign of J. Edgar Hoover, if not before.
It goes to show that one crappy person at the top can ruin the entire organization. i.e. Comey, Wray, Brennan et al.
The FIB must be abolished and the CIA absolutely gutted....if not abolished itself. These are hopelessly corrupt organizations the American people can have no trust or confidence in.
President Obama sought to change the demographics and the political complexion.
Indeed the little Marxist has a ego and a party willing to help Nero thought he was sane too.
Filtering the system is going to be one hell of a job and time taken.
Martial law (correct spelling)
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