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Yes, I suspect some of the reason that persuade undecided people to vote Republican is that 9/11 shows exactly why we can't be cutting military spending or giving up the fight. Yet leftys continue to wish for that. It's truly amazing to me that Clinton could hold his head up after 9/11, let alone campaign for another intelligence and defense cutting RAT.
Is this "ANONYMOUS" who wrote a book last year?
Current government officials are rarely as vocal as Mike Scheuer, who wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror." But he called the decision to leave the agency after 22 years "entirely my own."
"I have concluded that there has not been adequate national debate over the nature of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and the forces he leads and inspires, and the nature and dimensions of intelligence reform needed to address that threat,"
Translation: I'm a Democrat and now that I've made enough money off of my book to quite the CIA I can come out of the closet against the Bush administration. Besides, all of the stuff I leaked before the election didn't get my boy Kerry elected so there's no point sticking around in the CIA when I can make a lot more money this way.
Yep and I think that's where that comment was aimed. The other problems mentioned have been aired for the most part which is why there's a new CIA head.
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. He quits before he's canned.
I hope he runs his mouth a lot.
That's normal for bureaucrats that were passed from promotion. Maybe he thought that if he would write a books he bocomes a zillionaire.
He can write a book but I don't think it would enough oil to make it juicy. You see when you work with "top secret" requiring agencies, you wrote your future on "what you saw you forgot".
Signed, sealed and delivered.
How'd he ever get hired if he had problems with intelligence? Really a bad header.
Sounds like the long-overdue housecleaning of
anti-American elements at CIA is underway,
and they are being allowed to "resign".
"They were interested in doing everything but work," he said. He could think of only limited exceptions. "
That attitude is epidemic in every sector of the government. "Public Servants"........no comment.
Is it just me, or is everybody trying to cash in on the election hysteria by writing a book? If this guy simply wanted to get his story out ASAP, why not go directly to the press with it? Why write a book first? Really, his public information campaign doubles as a book tour. If the message seems to be a ruse to make money, I become a little suspicious about the messenger. 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.
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.
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
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.
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.