Posted on 02/15/2011 5:32:18 PM PST by IBD editorial writer
California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently criticized the intelligence community for failing to anticipate Egypt's political upheaval -- but looks like the CIA types should have been reading Chuck DeVore. That's right: the California GOP former U.S. Senate candidate published an analysis back in January warning Egypt was on "the brink of a chaotic transition of power" -- weeks before anyone had even taken to the streets of Cairo. The former Irvine Assemblyman raised his concerns on the issue of Egypt's future in a Jan. 11 piece in Investors' Business Daily entitled "A Restive Egypt Faces Succession; Islamacists May Make a Bid for Power." Chuck DeVore, you say? That would be the guy who unsuccessfully vied for his party's Senate nomination against former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in 2010. DeVore has some cred on this issue; he attended the American University of Cairo, where he studied Arabic and Islamic political thought in the 1980s.
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Of course, Chuck could not out-poll the completely inane Carley in the primaries. Sorry, CA.
Our “Intelligence” in the Obama administration is not so intelligent.
I doubt the intelligence community were taken by surprise. The problem is that there is no one in the White House who wants to hear the truth. Obama’s sycophantic inner circle is more interested in stroking his ego and telling him what he wants to hear.
Note: this topic is from Feb 15. Thanks IBD editorial writer.
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