Posted on 08/02/2004 7:08:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Per FNC, Bush OK's the 9/11 commission's recommendation to appoint a National Intelligence Director and create an Anti-Terrorism office.
Imagine one place for all of our intelligence under one umbrella. A clearinghouse for all information. A central intelligence agency. Wait, don't we already have one?
Yep.. Rudy ... I'd lay money on it.
You have a talent for only focusing on the present and not considering the future ramifications of having this office exist under the command and control of a Democratic President.
Rudy would be the best, giving him about 2 years to get the Department up and running, then having him step down to take on Hillary in 2006!!!!
PLEASE let it be RUDY!!!
No, I don't think that's Rudy's forte. I could see him on Ashcroft's staff but "He's a Leader". Senate next, governor of NY after that!! I think he has the Power to turn NY Repub!!
The building blocks are beginning to take shape....
That being said, if it's a fait accompli then Rudy is the man for the job...
If Rudy is standing with GWB the election is OVER
"Rudy would be the best, giving him about 2 years to get the Department up and running, then having him step down to take on Hillary in 2006!!!!"
I like that scenario.
If it's Rudy, then we'll need to clone him so he can also run for the Senate, assuming he were to stay in the new position very long.
But he doesn't want it to be a cabinet level position.
The Democrats won't go for that, as their goal was not to improve our ability to connect the intelligence dots, but to put an individual into the White House to use alternatively as another bludgeon against President Bush or Dem propaganda tool to inflate the popularity of their next feuhrer.
The election IS over.. it's all downhill from here for Kerry.
I'm still reading the 9/11 Comission Report. Haven't made up my mind if this is the correct decision. (Intelligence "Czar"....btw, am I the only one that thinks naming anyone a "Czar" is dumb? I mean, they killed the last Czar and his entire family if memory serves....grin)
GWB needs to immediately create the position and appoint Rudy to get the thing off the ground. I'd really like to see the dims fillibuster that appointment just before the election.
" I'd really like to see the dims fillibuster that appointment just before the election."
I like that too! (IMO, Bush knows how to set his opponents up so that in the end, they hang themselves)
I think Rudy goes from this to President
Bush's team has been meeting a lot lately specifically to discuss this.
They don't do things for political reasons.
I can see both sides.
I can understand why many here don't want yet another agency......but this is a director who is in charge of all the agencies even above Homeland Security.
This is not some bloated program being added to the budget.
I personally lean toward your position that we need somebody to combine all the info and take charge of all the agencies.
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