Posted on 01/02/2010 1:10:58 AM PST by American Dream 246
I missed the implications of this up front and I bet you all did too, but I am hearing from members of the American intelligence community and some on the outside closely connected to those on the inside who are raising a huge red flag right now.
It appears Barack Obama inexperience and amateurishness has just started bonfires on the bridges connecting him to the American intelligence community and delivered a huge, HUGE psychological win to Al Qaeda.
People tell me the President’s rush to acknowledge the attack on the CIA in Afghanistan and mourn the deaths openly, publicly, and via press release is a huge no no. The CIA and greater intelligence community would prefer not to have the attention put on them. Additionally, because the President took the time to draft a blanket statement focused on the CIA in general instead of individually and more privately focusing on the families of the victims, it acknowledges the CIA’s work in Afghanistan, acknowledges that the attack has an impact on the CIA, and gives the terrorists a new recruiting tool — “you too can cause America to publicly mourn the loss of their spies.”
To you and me this may not seem like a big deal. But I’m told this is hugely significant and shows just how out of touch the Obama administration is with the intelligence community. I’m told that no other President has issued such blanket statements of public mourning directed toward an attack on the CIA and thereby having the White House itself confirming an attack on our intelligence community.
The intelligence community is licking its wounds right now and Obama’s rush to confirm for the world that the community suffered such wounds has the intelligence community simmering tonight and Al Qaeda preparing a PR blitz with what they view as good news.
UPDATED: Take the information above and couple it with this. The White House is subtly blaming the intelligence community for the failure to deduce the Delta/Northwest attack.
Why?
Because the President is worried about being blamed, the White House is trying to blame the CIA while at the same time undermining the CIA through a rush to publicize the Afghan attack.
Either this White House is willfully trying to sabotage the intelligence community or they are rank amateurs. I pray to God in Heaven it is the latter.
When I first began posting on the forum, I said that many of the patriot intel agents had left the agencies in droves. They have been replaced by freshfaced, liberal just-out-of-college punks who have been brainwashed leftward by what passes for a college education these days. Glorified Social Workers. And that is what you saw when bam so nonchalantly went to Langley and delivered his ultimate betrayal speech dripping with bitter honey.
Anyone who ever thought he cared anything about national security OR the CIA was disabused of that notion before he ever stepped foot there.
Many of the old guard will not poke their heads up and some fear retaliation if their names are made public. The situation today is very, very bad.
Well, that is yet another very scary thing to contemplate. That is probably true of the State Dept. too and every other bureaucracy in the country.
Yep, and watch the unions move if Souther is approved for the post as head of the TSA. Next stop, any government agency except maybe the DoJ and Military. But even there, I would squint hard.
Bttt
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