[Rashputin]

Caliph Barry, like Clinton, see the CIA as a tool to generate evidence to justify doing what he wants to do and sell to the public, not as a source of information and intelligence.

Our current Narcissist in Chief without a doubt believes the sole purpose of the CIA is to generate fakes and frauds on command, not to provide him with facts.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I would have liked the title better if it was “Does the CIA RELIEVE Obama?” After all, no one believes him.

[lee martell]

Probably not, but they are tied to the expectations of their job descriptions; to protect the President, irregardless to Buffoonery or even Treachery.I would guess each CIA agent is watching the other agents to see who will be the first to ‘go rogue’, in spite of this being on most their minds. By necessity, they are self policing.

[Williams]

Who wrote this article? Putin?

[hadaclueonce]

The only ones who believe Obama are the fake blonde on Morning joe and the rest of the MSNBC staff.

Oh, the others who have kin working in the Admin.

[Fido969]

They'd be stupid if they did.

No one believes that guy anymore.

[mountainlion]

There is a theory of Economics called the “Invisible Hand”. It seems to have been modified by the new world order. 0bama is the figurehead of the invisible world government. They are all working together.

[Forgotten Amendments]

This is hardly new. The basic flaw in the way governments work is that, the CIA has many fine, patriotic officers who employ many brave, heroic agents. But all that work gets passed up the ladder until it hits political hacks who will twist it to their needs.

Like so many other bureaucracies, the CIA does more harm than good. Been that way for many years.

[FlyingEagle]

The Fox 13 Hours program was clear that the “stand down” came via CIA boss of the heroes.

[FreeReign]

To be sure there are many in the national security community who continue to believe that destroying terrorism justifies massive global devastation, and that the Russians will be marching into Finland if they are not stopped at Sevastopol.

The author can't bring himself to say that the Russians have more recently marched into Donetsk and Luhansk so he says Sevastopol, an invasion that was done months ago.

[GOPJ]

But those numbers are surely diminishing as people examine the results of 13 years of trying to make Manichean solutions work in an increasingly complex world.

(So the short answer to whether those engaged at the working level in national security actually believe what their bosses are saying is, “Probably not.”

Manichaeism (/ˈmænɨkiːɪzəm/;[1] in Modern Persian آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móní Jiào) was a major Gnostic religion that was founded by the Iranian[2] prophet Mani (in Persian: مانی, Syriac: ܡܐܢܝ, Latin: Manichaeus or Manes) (c. 216–276 AD) in the Sasanian Empire.[3][4] Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness.

This is where we get 'Manichean solution'?

[free_life]

Piss on Russia.

Let the Russians and the Islamists have at each other they both so love war and killing people.

We can bomb the remainder back to the stone age.