Posted on 11/21/2004 10:33:22 AM PST by wagglebee
In a series of bizarre comments that show the depth of the failed thinking at the nation's premier intelligence service, the former head of the CIA unit charged with capturing or killing Osama bin Laden said on Sunday that the terror mastermind was a "remarkable," "great" and "admirable" man.
"He's really a remarkable man," former CIA agent Michael Scheuer told NBC's "Meet the Press." "[He's a] great man in many ways, without the connotation positive or negative. He's changed the course of history."
Scheuer's book "Imperial Hubris," which the CIA allowed him to publish anonymously earlier this year, was touted during the presidential campaign by critics of President Bush based on its claim that the U.S. is losing the war on terror. Scheuer ran the agency's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999.
While he insisted he didn't mean to praise bin Laden, moments later the ex-CIA man told host Tim Russert that the al Qaida chief was "an admirable man. If he was on our side, he would be dining at the White House."
"He would be a freedom fighter, a resistance fighter," Scheuer added, suggesting that the U.S. would welcome an ally who killed 3,000 innocent office workers in a kamikaze sneak attack.
In more revealing comments, Scheuer went on to blame America's "unqualified support for Israel" for bin Laden's rise.
"There is a perception in the Muslim world, and I think there's a perception on the part of many Americans, that the tail is leading the dog on this case," he told NBC. "And perception, for better or worse, is often reality."
In fact, bin Laden bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa, attacked the USS Cole and planned the 9/11 attacks during the height of the Clinton administration's efforts to pressure Israel to cede territory to the Palestinians, a proposal accepted by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak but rejected by Yassir Arafat.
Scheuer continued as a senior analyst with the CIA's bin Laden unit until Nov. 12, when he went public in-person with his complaints.
I think this might even solve the how-could-9/11-happen question as well. Democrats claim Bush allowed 9/11 to happen, but it was more likely this infestation of America hating maggots allowed the US to get what it "deserved."
The most frightening to me is you know there has to be more like him in the CIA. How in the hell can a guy like him even get a job in the CIA MUCH LESS be promoted to an important position?
I guess my 'ol college professor was right.
It was in the 70's and I had a political science professor who said liberals were drawn to institutions and bureaucracies because there was "no real" accountability, no real competition for promotions and/or tenure. He was speaking of college professors in general BUT his theory applies everywhere.
He went on to say conservatives were raised with the theory that their "personal efforts" were the keys to success . . . hence, they went into the business world and other such occupations because the bureaucracies stifled personal initiatives.
Thirty years later . . . and he's even more right today than he was way back then.
This, THIS! is the guy they had as the HEAD of the unit in the CIA to get OBL? No wonder this dim bulb was allowed to 'leave'. God help the CIA pick someone with more sense than this leftist idiot.
And if this dude represents the leftists in the CIA, it is no wonder the democrats so desperately want to keep the status quo over there....
It's truly amazing how many Jews are co-conspirators to anti-semitism and nihlism.
"OK, sheeple, get in line. Now remember, breathe deeply..."
"Chosen people"....I don't think so...not with Scheurers, Feinsteins, Boxers, Schumers, Wechsels? (florida),....
This guy is an absolute disgrace!
Ask the 911 families if there is anything "admirable" about UBL. Ask the family members who lost people in Afghanistan and Iraq!
With morons like this leading the charge, is it any wonder UBL wasn't stopped or caught?
This "man" is a disgusting pig of a human being!
Diogenesis, you can see it all so clearly.
Either that are put in a padded room and a straight jacket...he is a looney tune.
We need to purge the CIA and State and lord knows what else.
The Left has flocked to our institutions and foundations period like maggots to a carcass.
I'm not sure we can purge them short of violence.
It's been this way to varying degrees since Hiss. (and before)
IIRC, CIA and State Department officials are required to sign "oaths of loyalty" to the President and the country. If this is the case, I think these turncoat renegades should be prosecuted.
From AM's post:
His book is a good example of what we analysts used to do:
Research the “checkables” and commit them to memory; Be thoroughly familiar with the findings of serious scholars in academe and the press; Give sustained scrutiny to the primary source of data on any issue or country by applying the proven tools of the endangered-species discipline of media analysis, supplementing that scrutiny with data from classified sources;
So the CIA relies on the ideologically driven press and universities for their reality test.
No wonder we're in such bad shape that we were deluded into prosecuting a war via law enforcement until someone like President Bush, the "uninformed non-book-reading, non-newspaper-reading" dumb frat-boy, used good ole Heartland common sense to analyze the problem.
My prayers are continuing for our president, and now for the brave man who has taken on this battle at the CIA, Porter Goss.
The problem is our universities, which produce the bilge that passes for intellectuality in this country, poisoning the press, teachers at all levels, NGOs and assorted wannabes like the Hollywood crowd which then brainwashes the masses via dramas like "West Wing" and "Law and Order".
Until we deal with what has taken place in academia, we will not win the war against the traitors within.
Lumping them together is like lumping Unitarians and Atheists in with Evangelicals.
I can't buleeeve it..... ping for later
Dr. Rice and DCI Goss are doing a great job with the duties they've been tasked with, but the mission is not completely finished.
Until President Bush axes that dead weight FBI Director, Robert Mueller, and reforms the dysfunctional bureaucracy over at Quantico, we're not going to be able to pursue a war against terrorism to our fullest capacity.
Thanks for the ping, Diogenesis!
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