Posted on 06/14/2013 1:21:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The news broke within the last few minutes. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because Morell was the guy who signed off on the now infamous edit of the CIA’s Benghazi talking points that removed references to previous warnings about jihadi activity in the area. Is today’s resignation related to that, or is it related somehow to the NSA/PRISM/Snowden clusterfark?
Fox News is quoting his statement as saying “It’s time for my family,” but I can’t remotely believe this guy would quit now in the middle of a Category Five natsec hurricane knowing how suspicious it would look if he didn’t have a more compelling reason than that. Is he being squeezed out because there’s some more damning leak to come and the White House wants to get out in front of it by dispatching with the person or persons responsible?
Stand by for updates.
Update: The person set to replace Morell as deputy is — ta da — a White House lawyer who’s worked on national security issues. Is she being chosen because new CIA chief John Brennan knows/respects her from his time working with her in the WH or because O wants a tighter hold on the CIA and needs loyalists in charge there to make it happen?
Update: If O wanted a scapegoat for NSA snooping, which would be really weird given that he’s been defending the snooping himself, he’d can the NSA’s director, no? Morell seems a bit far afield to blame for that unless there’s something we don’t know.
Update: I thought he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Morell, widely admired both within the intelligence community and Capitol Hill, is a veteran of the CIA’s analytical division, rather than undercover espionage, and had worked at the agency for 33 years.
He will join the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House said.
O might want Morell out but he doesn’t want him disgruntled. An honorary position on his intel board might keep him happy, no? Then again, if Morell’s moving over to the IAB, presumably that means there’s nothing scandalous about him coming out. No point in cutting him loose from CIA to distance the White House from him if you’re going to appoint him to a presidential board instead. Maybe this really is an exceptionally ill-timed resignation for personal reasons.
Obama is BRILLIANT.
Who better to control Americans and avoid real terrorism
through the NSA and illegal vast intercepts
than someone ... who ran a porno store?
This move is solely to make it harder for Congress to question him........
Thought he was joining Sisan Rice on the NSC>
Hmm....questions.
Getting to this a bit late but I didn't see this particular article posted.
That was my thought.
Surely the courts would see through this and back Congress's right to question him on his involvement at NSA.
I see Fellow FReepers were way ahead of me on that topic...
Did the store specialize in gay porn?
Bingo! He is now part of the inner circle so they can claim separation of powers and refuse to testify, just like Rice.
shell game and stall game and these hearings are going nowhere, the FBI is not investigating and so the stupid party has go to do something instead of looking for some wars for us to be in or think about passing immigration for millions of illegals and now homosexuals to be here and stay and so obama can take the credit for it passing
Republican congressmen are just plain stupid. That’s our biggest problem. They just don’t have the sense to get these people in there to testify before the brains behind BO figure out how to make it where they never have to say a word. Stupid. There is so much blatant lying going on and unconstitutional things that it’s astounding yet our stupid congressmen just let them get by with the illegal things they are doing. I’m sick of them all.
THIS IS B/S when will the media report this crap FFS, I am so friggin pissed off
Clinton confidante at center of Benghazi damage-control tied to probe of suspected diplomat crimes
The thread is about another little scandal....but if she were called before a Congressional committee....surely she would be asked about Benghazi questions....
Maybe she will take sudden retirement but tak a position on an Obama Advisory Board....on something ...protected from inquisitive Congressional Committee''s.
See #15.
Never to be heard from in any real fashion again.......
executive privilege
Not smart, but cunning.
KYPD!
Expect a long, hot summer in DC with “Executive Privilege” being the phrase du jour.......Can you say, “Constitutional Crisis”?......I knew you could.........
It makes it harder, but not impossible, for Congress to get their testimony, so a subpoena is the only way to go. If the subpoena is worded properly, so as to ask only for testimony that pertains to their previous duties in their previous positions, then the courts will side with the Congress. This is simply a delaying tactic, to stall so they can think of another way out of the mess they have created.......
thanks, I just told the wife about this and our house is not a happy place right now.
I;ts obvious that the FBI is not investigating, the DOJ has been caught lying and thinks this is social justice and the white house is ignoring the law so wat is the GOP to do?
MCcain looks for another war, others look to pass immigration when obama can take credit and we get millions of Dem voters
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