Posted on 02/21/2020 11:59:10 AM PST by ransomnote
Today, the President designated United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence. Ambassador Grenell was confirmed to his role as Ambassador by the Senate in April 2018, and he has years of experience working with our Intelligence Community in a number of additional positions, including as Special Envoy for Serbia-Kosovo Negotiations and as United States spokesman to the United Nations. He is committed to a non-political, non-partisan approach as head of the Intelligence Community, on which our safety and security depend. The President has every confidence that Ambassador Grenell will perform his new duties with distinction.
The question, as always, is this: does anyone in the intel community have anything on him? I am convinced that the lack of any accountability, any justice being brought to bear, is probably because everybody is vulnerable to what amounts to blackmail. Spooks snoop on each other. Trump is free of this merry go round; I hope the acting DNI is also impervious. Not holding my breath.
Someone explain the fault in my logic. Anyone with years of experience in government is naturally a part of the establishment/deep state, particularly if they had success in their careers. How do you trust that?
The first clue (for those who don't know him) that he is a stellar choice is the total apoplexy the deep state players expressed within 30 seconds of Grenell being named.
Good, let’s start off by wiretapping the Dems so we can gather evidence of their lawbreaking, Next, we prosecute.
I have a little t of faith in Rick. He is fearless and has done a stellar job in Germany.
The "deep state" as I understand it, isn't necessarily all of the federal goverent and its various hangers on, but a subset of that group that has become so accustomed to their station in life and entitled in their authority that they have lost even the pretense of accountability to the wider public, to which they supposedly serve.
The "deep state" sees themselves abstractly as the protectors of the function of the government, but in practice, they protect only their own stations in life, using the levers of government as weapons against the public, not tools to empower the public.
I think it's certainly true that if you are in the government for long enough, you can't avoid having a bit of that protectionist sentiment, after all you eventually have your own assets and benefits that you want to protect, but not everyone goes into government service for the same reasons, and some come to see themselves and their public service as their own form of resistance... But against the deep state, not for it.
That’s a good assessment. I’ll add that I know more than a few federal employees, all are Iraq/Afghanistan combat vets.
Maybe they screamed bloody murder as a tactic. Remember when the Clintons bitched about Ken Starr but was happy in private?
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