Posted on 09/26/2019 9:01:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Webb claims that her father was bigwig in American weapons development. His Washington connections could have played a role in her getting hired at CIA. But that might not have been at all necessary, the 70s were an era when there was a big push to hire women.
Webb is good to listen to get a sense of the spook culture and he’s right more than he’s wrong.
But he’s not 100% because he runs his thoughts together so fast that some of his statements in isolation can be 100% wrong.
Recent example: Webb says Zelensky (Pres of Ukraine) is NOT a friend of the US because he’s working with criminal arms dealers who ‘installed him’.
Webb is so fixated on the power of dirty arms dealers that any leader meeting them must have sold out to become their puppet.
Zelensky is a friend. He meets with undesirables just like Trump meets and hires the wrong people like for example, retaining Clinton leaning neocons like McMaster. Trump is sometimes wrong as well although rarely but when he’s wrong he quickly retracts or explains or he acts to correct.
Zelensky tells Trump that Ukraine also has a swamp to drain and he meets the bad guys to measure them just like Trump does. Zelensky tells Trump that he learns a lot from the American President and appreciates his (Trump’s) approaches to difficult situations (as evidenced by the declassed phone transcript).
I’ve noticed Webb make errors in other areas but he usually will correct but he runs so much data through his brain that when he connects data he sometimes makes poor inferences. To be fair to Webb, he’s getting a data feed from a network of investigators and researchers and he acts as their stenographer. Webb calls himself a dyslexic stenographer. So in the example above, when he says Zelensky is not a friend, it could just be someone feeding him some data colored with a wrong opinion.
So the ‘polished’ conservative pundits like Solomon or Carter will not use Webb openly because of inconsistencies. Webb does not lie, he just gets it wrong sometimes and in the national conservative news media, getting it wrong can sink your career. One can get it wrong but need to retract and apologize asap, and these errors need to be rare.
“So the ‘polished’ conservative pundits like Solomon or Carter will not use Webb openly because of inconsistencies. “
Well Solomon and Carter aren’t conservative pundits- Hannity is a pundit who features them- they are veteran investigative journalists who simply aren’t leftists. They have to be careful about verifying what they report or their value suffers. Once you get a reputation for sloppiness everything you report is suspect.
They get tips like everyone else. They have to check tips out before repeating them because tipsters have agendas or simply aren’t accurate.
George Webb is more like a tipster with a platform. His information may or may not be accurate. It’s raw.
“retaining Clinton leaning neocons like McMaster”
I’ve followed McMaster since 1997 when his dissertation was published as a book that is on the service academy reading lists. Tank commander in the biggest armor battle since WWII. Scholar on Vietnam. General. I never saw an indication that he was political much less a “Clinton leaning neocon” until I ran across such claims by people had never once heard his name until two years ago. I guess those critics are fast studies.
You describe the early McMaster.
The mature McMaster became a protege of Petraeus, hence the neocon mold.
People change, unfortunately not always for the better and wiser.
Trump will take in a bad egg on a good recommendation and see what fruit is produced.
Do you know why Mattis was fired? Did you know he was fired, not resigned?
BTW good tuning on Solomon and Carter not leftists versus conservatives. As they are showcased on Hannity, they tend to get the conservative label
I haven’t watched cable programming or any programming in over a decade, so how would I know who or what is on Hannity or any other programmed outlet?
I program me while careful to keep a balance, absorbing other emerging aggregators. Example, Heyden Music Page will run snippets of videos taken from Hannity, Gorka, Watters etc. while featuring some awesome solo guitarists.
Also raw pundit independents like Terrence Williams, Katie G., David Harris Jr, IPOT... Each of these are raw natural talents with background deductions ahead or apart of such polished studio personas as in the Hannity category.
I got the Sue Gordon reveal from Katie G who is damned smart but has the presentation of the proverbial home grown next door neighbor.
There are certain aggregators (not so easy to find now because of biased search algorithms and hidden filters) that read wide disparate sources and make high IQ inference. When future proves their past, I subscribe and receive notifications.
“The mature McMaster became a protege of Petraeus, hence the neocon mold.”
You’re just parroting nonsense that you’ve heard. Petraeus adopted a counterinsurgency doctrine that McMaster had been developing while McMaster was on Abizaid’s staff. Collaborating on a counterinsurgency doctrine hardly makes McMaster a protege of Petraeus. And who knows what you mean by neocon in that context; I doubt that even you know.
“Do you know why Mattis was fired? Did you know he was fired, not resigned?”
Trump said nothing about removing Mattis until after Mattis announced his intention to resign. Mattis submitted his resignation letter on December 20th 2018. Trump accepted it. It wasn’t until a couple of days later that Trump said that he fired Mattis. All that the firing accomplished was to make Mattis’ resignation effective immediately instead of effective on February 28th, 2019 as indicated in the letter.
Well one can see you’ve studied some but not all background on McMaster and are enamored with him somehow. So there’s likely no chance to inform you with an apparent wall of a set view. But let’s try.
It’s a fact that McMaster was fired because he advocated war with North Korea while other brass backed POTUS to pursue an opening toward peace. Thus, regardless of what we write here, McMaster is thought of as a neocon and his actions prove it.
As for Mattis’ resignation, I’m sorry to inform you and I don’t think you’ll accept that Mattis was fired although he says he resigned and he says that to save face.
POTUS demanded his resignation after returning from a secret trip to Iraq the day after Christmas last year. He demanded Mattis resign after hearing direct from field commanders in Iraq that it would take two weeks to destroy ISIS if they were freed up to fight on their terms versus two years Mattis had told POTUS.
This was reported in outlets like Heavy.com but not anywhere among the usual suspects like NY Times, Amazon WAPO, legacy news broadcasters. Pray more and more stop listening to the propagandists and suppressors and receive faithful information through emerging sources having integrity.
So what we learn is Heavy.com is your Inside Source for non-public information.
Neither Trump nor McMaster said anything about McMaster advocating war with the Norks, so unless you were sitting in on national security meetings yourself your knowledge comes from where, exactly? Heavy.com?
“He demanded Mattis resign after hearing direct from field commanders in Iraq that it would take two weeks to destroy ISIS if they were freed up to fight on their terms versus two years Mattis had told POTUS.”
Trump tweeted on December 19, 2018 that ISIS was defeated:
“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”
The very next day Mattis wrote his resignation letter announcing he will leave February 28, 2019. It’s dated December 20, 2018. Trump hadn’t yet said anything about firing Mattis.
Trump tweets after receiving the letter:
“When President Obama ingloriously fired Jim Mattis, I gave him a second chance. Some thought I shouldn’t, I thought I should. Interesting relationship-but I also gave all of the resources that he never really had. Allies are very important-but not when they take advantage of U.S.”
No mention yet of Trump having fired Mattis. The next day, Dec 23, Trump tweets that Patrick Shanahan will replace Mattis on January 1, 2019, two months ahead of Mattis’ chosen last day:
“I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!”
And in fact the primary source for discovering that Mattis resigned is Trump himself. Here’s what he tweeted the day that he received Mattis’ letter:
“General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years. During Jim’s tenure, tremendous progress has been made, especially with respect to the purchase of new fighting....
“....equipment. General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations. A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly. I greatly thank Jim for his service!
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