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/
Yes, but in replacement the Trump team needs to make sure to take in true patriots from across the country, not just the sniffling GOPe already based in DC.
“There were going to be mass resignations at the FBI, too, over Comey.”
Nobody ever quits government voluntarily. The pay is too high and the benefits are too good and the work is too undemanding for the vast majority of government jobs.
Just sayin...
I can’t see it happening. The left pretty much owns the Agencies and historically has used this position as a method of scuttling the initiatives of republican Presidents. They are not going to give up that lever. I hope that Trump fires everyone in those agencies, especially EPA and CIA and the DOEs that he can and then doesn’t replace them except at CIA.
The CIA gets its recruits mostly from Harvard and Yale and Princeton. As such it is obvious that they are partisan and leftist and need to be given their pink slips. Each should be fired with a substantial separation bonus on the condition that he does not prematurely resign so that Trump can execute a deliberate exfoliation of the agency without a disastrous mass resignation.
Up until Reagan the CIA annually reported to the President that the Economy of the USSR was about half of ours and that the Soviet economy was expanding at twice the rate of the American economy. That was going on since there was a CIA and it doesn’t compute. Reagan knew by that that it was all BS and circumvented the institutional CIA with his own Director who picked his sources and got an accurate assessment. Reagan thus had the numbers and knew what he could do to hasten the end of the Soviet Empire, no thanks to the CIA.
Like any cockroaches, they scurry away as soon as the light comes on and reveals what bunch of SOBs they are. They are resigning before they get fired for cause.
They also should be smart enough to know that you shouldn’t go to war with the king.
The salad and champagne days of the CIA are over!
Let’s hope so.
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