Posted on 05/29/2009 4:43:35 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
On his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the President appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, from an agency employee also at the burger restaurant.
"So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial..." Obama said, after the worker mentioned his employer, according to a video of the event.
"We work with, uh, satellite imagery," the worker, Walter replied.
A POLITICO reader caught the exchange, which starts around 5:45 on this C-SPAN video.
The transcript:
Obama: What do you do Walter? Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that? Walter: About six years Obama: Yea? Walter: Yes. Obama: You like it? Walter: I do, keeps me... Obama: So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial...uh... Walter: Uh, we work with, uh, satellite imagery.. Obama: Right Walter: [unintelligible] ...support systems, so... Obama: Sounds like good work. Walter: Enjoy the weekend. Obama: Appreciate it.
According to the Defense Department:
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.
NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term "geospatial intelligence" means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.
Guess they're not getting much airtime in the President's Daily Brief
See, a truly intelligent man, if he didn’t know what the agency did, would simply ask the employee what HE did at his job and then extrapolate from there. Makes you seem like you are genuinely interested in HIM rather than the agency.
But instead of dancing deftly around it, this dumbass steps in it. What a fool.
PS—can this cretin ever go anywhere but for burgers? I’d say go for tacos or something, but he’s already kissed up to the latins this week.
They have half-smokes right outside his f*cking door, but they might have pork in ‘em.
There are several ‘facts’ about NGA.
First, amongst military folks...it’s mostly a joke. They are overbloated with mostly GS-13s and above. Its about the only organization within DOD where you find more executive and management folks...than actual worker bees.
Second...a significant amount of the work they do...is just plain maps and charts. This was their big deal throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Ninety-eight percent of the maps and charts business is unclassified and downright boring.
Third....this is an organization which has reorganized itself at least four times (maybe even five)...over the past dozen years. There must be a full-time crew whose sole purpose in life...is writing the new organization charts and plan...for the next incoming chief. Most folks within DOD always have a laugh over that.
Finally...this curious meeting of Obama at the Burger Joint...would be a great Saturday Night Live episode...where each week, he bumps into a real person who works for the national government, and they explain what their group does...which Obama hasn’t the foggiest notion of what they do. So the Obama character would just sit there munching on a big double-burger while Larry of such and such agency goes into a two-minute speech of his organization...then Obama would shake his hand...and tell him that a vote for Obama...is a vote for America.
Actually the whole bar code scanner episode was completely distorted. Back in the day, 1992, you had to orient the bar code just so and draw the product across the scanner at the just the right speed, not too fast, not too slow.
What Bush was witnessing was a *demonstration* of one of the first of the new scanners that could read the bar code more or less regardless of orientation or speed with which you drew product across. We take that technology for granted today, it was new in 1992. Actually, even the old fashioned bar code scanners weren’t all that widely deployed in 1992, partly because they weren’t all that reliable and were quite expensive.
The reporters covering the event knew this and deliberately distorted their coverage to make Bush I look “out of touch”.
0bomo could care less about this military agency because>>>
0bomo is just like Bill Clinton and other Democrats.
— They hate foreign poicy
— They hate our military
— They hate national defense because it “steals” money from social programs
— Black Democrats hate defense and the Iraq war because it “steals” from slavery reparations
—Democrats love domestic policy and tilt it in ways to bribe people to vote for them
-— They take your tax money to destroy you via this bribery
— Democrat domestic policy is basically to defund you via taxes and fund favorite Democrat “constituencies” (a favorite word of theirs) to bribe them to vote Democrat
-— These “constituencies” are those who tend to vote Democrat and are blacks, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women, the poor, immigrants, illegal immigrants
-— The least Democrat voting group is white guys who are older and not gay
The list, ping
There’s a great deal of “intelligence” lacking in this administration.
Well, first off, the guy didn't say anything wrong. You can get more details off the NGA website than what he said.
Security regulations notwithstanding, if I was in line for a burger, and the President of the United States walked up behind me and asked me a question about my job, I'd probably answer him. It would be worse for your career not to. Regs are regs, but he is the President.
There are some unique events that any security officer would look at and shrug off. This is one of them.
That scanner comment surprised me, until I heard the truth behind it. And the darn spelling of potato..so sad to see the mass media pick and choose what stories they report, and then edit them for their liberal agenda. There should be consequences...and watching the dinosaur media death watch ping list...now that’s comforting. Maybe there will finally be consequences.
Classified info from this agency is what was on Hillary’s server.
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