Another Obama-CIA rift as POTUS deflects blame from self, DNI and appointees

Flopping Aces ^ | 01-02-10 | Mataharley

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While the painstaking process of unearthing the "systematic failures" of intelligence on the "underwear bomber" continues, Obama again performs on script. Just as he's done with virtually every past crises - and always while armed with only the bare essentials of information - the now infamous POTUS finger of blame moves away from anyone remotely connected with Obama, his decisions or performance of his appointees, and falls once again on his favorite scapegoat, the CIA.

And the CIA spy chiefs are none to happy about the accusations. It seemed especially harsh when, in an apparent moment of political expedience, Obama was hailing the seven CIA agents slain by a suicide bomber at a US base in the eastern province of Khost 24 hours later.

One day the President is pointing the finger and blaming the intelligence services, saying there is a systemic failure,’ said one agency official. ‘Now we are heroes. The fact is that we are doing everything humanly possible to stay on top of the security situation. The deaths of our operatives shows just how involved we are on the ground.’

But CIA bosses claim they were unfairly blamed at a time the covert government agency has been stretched further than ever before in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They point to the murder of seven operatives at a remote mountain base in Afghanistan’s Khost Province as an example of how agents are putting their lives on the line at the vanguard of America’s far-flung wars.

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Some CIA officials are angry at being criticised by the White House after Abdulmutallab, 23, was allowed to slip through the security net and board a US-bound flight in Amsterdam despite evidence he was a terror threat.

[philetus]

1) 1961: Barack Hussein Obama [Jr or II]

2) circa 1965/1966: Barry Soetoro

3) circa 1970: Barry Dunham

4) circa early 1980’s: Barack Hussein Obama II

you forgot

5) circa 2008: Our savior

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#5

You are free to believe whatever you want. (even if it was just sarcasm)

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Thank you, thank you, thank you

I have been talking about this since CNN first reported (via a ‘reliable source’) that a report sat on a desk at Langley for weeks and if they had shared the info maybe tighty-whitey terrorist would not have been able to board the plane.

Someone at the WH picked up a phone, called CNN and told an outrageous lie to deflect the blame from obama and to further damage the CIA. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The media ran with it and if those agents had not been killed the WH would still be blaming the CIA.