Posted on 11/11/2004 7:01:16 PM PST by wagglebee
He would have had a lot more credibility if he didn't try and pimp his book on every talk show he shows up on.
Actually, it's pretty smart of him. It's called FREE advertising. If it's pro RAT and anti Republican, he'll get a $hitload of free advertising from the MSM.
The CIA and the FBI are filled with timeservers, incompetents, and clintonoids. This guy is one of them. He quite before he was fired, I imagine.
Yes, I know it's "smart" of him if he's out to make a buck. Unfortunately (at least for me) it damages his credibility. If it was me and there were massive problems, I would have gone to the press ASAP, not spend 6 months writing a book first.
OMG, that must be SO lonely sometimes for you. You have my respect. Am I incorrect that most government offices are filled with leftie, overeducated, inexperienced people?
Well, you can bet its not going to be on Our side -- -- that "anonymouse-rat" is coming out and talking about his book and playing the blame game. He's already scheduling the rounds for the MSM, and especially, to be on cBS and 60 planets (spelling intentional) -- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=7&u=/nm/20041111/ts_nm/security_cia_dc
OMG, that must be SO lonely sometimes for you. You have my respect. Am I incorrect that most government offices are filled with leftie, overeducated, inexperienced people?
The government has their share of them. Fortunately, I work for DoD and we have a much smaller % of those kind. I have worked for two other agencies and they are rather rife with that kind. DoD usually weeds them out. If not, our military would not be as formidable as it is. Thank God.
Guess it just reinforces that this guy got out before he was asked to leave and he found a way to capitalize on that. My bet is that he's a big time RAT.
" DoD usually weeds them out. "
Thank you, conshak, for telling me straight. I'll sleep better tonight, which I'm going to do now!!
Spies , spies,spies we need more grunts and less pinheads.
You do realise that most of this war is being fought by intelligence officers, and waaay below the radar screen?
What we see and read about is probably about 10% of what's really going on.
Is it just me, or is everybody trying to cash in on the election hysteria by writing a book?
It's only just begun.
This is not Three Days of The Condor where Redford goes to the NYTimes. Spooks don't rat out spooks, esp. on a delicate subject like WOT.
"One could easily conclude that this guy was a hangover(1996-99) of the Klintoon appointees and would be weeded out early in GW's second administration."
If he has served for 22 yers, then he started there in 1982. Not quite what one would call Clinton years. If it were up to me, I'd give him a hearing; hope that Porter Goss does.
Without even reading any of the comments I will assume that everyone is going to complain about this guy because he is a whistleblower.
If there is one thing I can't stand its ass covering. If there is a problem in the intel community fix it. If not fine. Let's take a look and see what needs to be done.
The fact that 9/11 happened, Bali happened, Madrid happened etc means we are not getting the job done as well as we could. That doesn't mean CIA DIA and the rest are not busting their asses maybe they need some help.
He quit before the new CIA Chief fired his left wing butt.
Ping.
Rip off their heads and roll them out the door, dude.
There should be at least as much heat put on the CIA/FBI and Jamie Gore Lick as they let be put into the twin towers.
Talk about misplaced priorities: Lowly soldiers who followed orders in Abu Grhaib have been prosecuted while no one in the intelligence community or the Clinton administration has been fired or publicly humiliated for failing to heed the many 9-11 warnings that were there for any casual observer to see.
I guess we still live in a country where it's more important to not notice student-pilots' skin color, than it is to prevent 3000 deaths. We will keep dying, until we start discriminating against the insane animals spawned in middle east sewers.
Yes ma'am.
"Earlier this year, the CIA gave Scheuer permission to publish the book under the name "Anonymous" and to conduct interviews for it without revealing his identity."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/09/cia.critic/index.html
Drudge has an informative link about him.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
He's pointing the finger at Tenet (finally someone is):
"Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He blames former CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that should have been asked of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough people for the public relations office, for the academic outreach office, for the diversity and multi-cultural office? All those things are admirable and necessary but none of them are protecting the American people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer. "
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