Posted on 12/14/2016 4:35:57 AM PST by Kaslin
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on Public Television shortly before the presidential election for an extended interview with Charlie Rose. Mister Rose, like many of his peers these days, swings between hard news at dusk and bimbo chat at dawn. Indeed, Charlie is the very model of a Beltway double-dipper, a celebrity groupie who feeds at public and commercial troughs, PBS and CBS.
On any given day, Rose might be seen giggling with celebrities in the morning and then lofting softballs to political touts in the evening. The Council on Foreign Relations was the venue for the recent Clapper show. “Impartial, non-profit” think tanks are often used to provide the appropriate gravitas to administration spin. The Clapper performance, just before the November election, seemed to be of a piece with several other Intelligence officials who campaigned against Donald Trump.
And the Clapper interview, like many administration dog-and-pony shows, was not about transparency or openness or even information per se. In another day, any public chat with an Intelligence official might have been relegated to the desinformatsiya file. Today, Intelligence officials like Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan play other, and some might say sinister, if not partisan roles.
Whether the subject is Islamism, Vladimir Putin, or fake news; the name of the game at the moment is overtly political. Call it spin control.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Give the record of rampant political corrupt and abject failure at the CIA for the last 50 years, it past time this failed agency be closed. What ever useful function that might exist at CIA can be reassigned to any of the other 16 Intelligence agencies.
For example, covert ops can fold into DOD Special Operations etc
I have to differ about removing the CIA. The CIA performs unique operations throughout the world with highly trained specialists and helped make America the most powerful nation in the world during its heyday. Rather than be disbanded it needs new leadership and a new direction. Obama appointed Muslims into key roles involving our national security chain so no wonder we are getting mixed signals coverups, and chaos. Remove them and appoint people concerned about the safety of OUR nation, not the middle east and I believe things will change even the propaganda problems. Unfortunately for us that is one of the methods they've used very effectively and it works. The problem is we don't know if the MSM is being assisted by other agencies at using this skillset against our own country.
Absolutely. This group, the FBI, and NSA must be completely cleaned.
I will never forget that many years ago our history dept hired a woman who had worked in the CIA and she was the biggest leftist i have ever seen. Never trusted the CIA after that, but I thought Porter Goss might get it cleaned out. He dodn’t last long.
> Give the record of rampant political corrupt and abject failure at the CIA for the last 50 years, it past time this failed agency be closed. What ever useful function that might exist at CIA can be reassigned to any of the other 16 Intelligence agencies.
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What could possibly be the justification for the USA or any other country to need 16 Intelligence agencies. Is that in itself intelligent?
The CIA started with Donovan.
I assume that there are plans to start with culling the herd of top political appointees in every Government agency.
—a great start would be to fire everyone who attended an Ivy League university-—
Amen amen
In the extensive report on the massive Russian-backed operation to hack American political and government severs—including a successful hack of the Democratic National Committee's server—the paper reveals that
President Barack Obama had been "briefed regularly" on Russia's effort to target servers at the State Department, the White House, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here's the Times: Mr. Obama was briefed regularly on all this, but he made a decision that many in the White House now regret:
OBAMA did not name Russians publicly, or issue sanctions.
There was always a reason: fear of escalating a cyberwar, and concern that the United States needed Russia's cooperation in negotiations over Syria. "We'd have all these circular meetings," one senior State Department official said, "in which everyone agreed you had to push back at the Russians and push back hard. But it didn't happen."
So the Russians escalated again — breaking into systems not just for espionage, but to publish or broadcast what they found, known as "doxing" in the cyberworld.
It was a brazen change in tactics, moving the Russians from espionage to influence operations. In February, 2014 they broadcast an intercepted phone call between Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state who handles Russian affairs and has a contentious relationship with Mr. Putin, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the United States ambassador to Ukraine. Ms. Nuland was heard describing a little-known American effort to broker a deal in Ukraine, then in political turmoil. (Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
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CONCLUSION Too bad the Royal Idiot is too stupid to realize what a jerk he looks like.
Obama is the fall guy here......the janitor mopping up the mess of Hillary's decrepit campaign.
The leaks indicted the nasty Democrat apparat. That's the thing they're fuming about---being outed as jerks and creeps.
The shamed Dems take on a Sisyphian task to restore credibility----but its not going to work.
The best way to clean up the intelligence community is to give them numerous ratings of “efficiency”, defined as “The mission vs. its execution”.
If they are given a mission to spy on *foreign* terrorists, but they spend 98% of their time and money spying on Americans in no way associated with terrorism, that mission needs to end.
If they gather a vast amount of trivial data about Americans that they then just archive in Utah, that mission needs to end.
If they “swap meet” at 72 or so Homeland Security “fusion centers”, with data outside their mission from other agencies, that needs to end. Fusion centers should be very focused on mission essential data. They shouldn’t be so that any of the 17 intelligence agencies can get all data from each other.
If non-intelligence and non-police agencies want access to intelligence data, like the 37 bureaus and agencies that can access the health records of all Americans anytime they want to, for any or no reason (because of the HIPAA and HITECH Acts), they should have a damned warrant to do so.
Otherwise, it is not their business.
Intelligence and criminal lists like NO FLY and Sex Offender need a single agency in charge of them, that vets those lists for accuracy. Right now, many federal agencies can slap someone on NO FLY, but nobody is in charge of insuring the data is accurate, or is able to edit it without the directive of a federal judge.
REAL ID needs to be killed dead. A federal ID card is and was always a bad idea.
Spooks must be working on over-drive with the impending January date soon approaching.
The CIA, or at least influential elements within it, are trying to “Pinochet” America. I would urge President Trump to crush this attempted coup- as lame and ineffective as it is - with an iron fist.
The most dangerous enemies of our people are these reptiles living in the swamp not foreign enemies like ISIS. And after all ISIS was created largely through the mendacity and incompetence of the CIA. Burn it down.
The US Intelligence system has been allowed to metastasize into something that makes us less safe from foreign enemies and is itself a “clear and present danger” to the American people. It must be repealed and replaced as much as Obamacare.
I have only known one person who worked in the intelligence community, and he seemed apolitical, albeit somewhat without scruples. From what I can gather, the OSS and early CIA ranks contained WAY too many Ivy League leftists, some of whom were more interested in helping Uncle Joe than Uncle Sam.
Mr. niteowl77
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