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Drain the Intelligence Swamp!
American Thinker ^ | December 14, 2016 | G. Murphy Donovan

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charlierose; jamesclapper; pbscbs
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To: jsanders2001

I suspect that’s true and they all need money to operate.

I called the technique we used “Spiral Analysis”, since we would build our organizational profiles by progressively alternating between classified and unclassified (public domain) information repeatedly and focusing on exploitable elements of information (name, business, address, etc., i.e., “objects”) that we knew or suspected we could exploit or build upon, even something as innocuous as a common address (apartment complex) or adjacent address paid big dividends in a few cases.


41 posted on 12/14/2016 6:58:25 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Liz
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.

And even if he had, it would have made no difference in the outcome of the election.

42 posted on 12/15/2016 3:39:48 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: niteowl77
I have only known one person who worked in the intelligence community, and he seemed apolitical, albeit somewhat without scruples.

People in the intel community are all over the board politically, pretty much like everyone else.

43 posted on 12/15/2016 3:42:51 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

The Obama briefing revelation forever corrupts the Clinton’s obsession to overturn the election-—blaming the Russians for her loss.

Thank you, Jesus.


44 posted on 12/15/2016 5:13:11 AM PST by Liz
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To: jsanders2001

“Financial relationships do identify a lot of bad guys that would go unnoticed no doubt.”

Didn’t the investigation into financial links really get started under Reagan?

Not only did we find the links, often we found the off shore accounts of these traitors and foreign thugs. Then, we emptied those accounts to pay for more monitoring of other traitors and foreign thugs.


45 posted on 12/15/2016 7:24:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: ASA Vet

Morning and fyi!


46 posted on 12/15/2016 7:26:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Clapper and I are fellow USAFSS vets. He can do very little wrong. ;-)


47 posted on 12/24/2016 12:01:01 PM PST by Ax
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To: Ax

You probably never got lost going to or from your work site!


48 posted on 12/24/2016 1:56:17 PM PST by Grampa Dave (You can't shame liberals because, they don't understand the concept of honor and decency!)
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To: Grampa Dave

No, I didn’t, but it’s kind of hard to get lost while riding the shift bus out to operations.


49 posted on 12/25/2016 4:09:21 PM PST by Ax
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To: Kaslin

Bttt.

5.56mm


50 posted on 12/25/2016 4:25:42 PM PST by M Kehoe
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