Dodging Terrorist and Administration Bullets

Dodging Terrorist and Administration Bullets

. . . The “terror gaffe” committed by Clapper was far less a gaffe than a horrifying instance of proof that, with all the billions spent by our government to secure America’s safety and security, we’re about as safe and secure as we were on the morning of September 11th, 2001, or less so. This despite national security adiviser John Brennan’s reassurance that, “We are in much better position today than we were last year at this time,” which in itself is scary.

Cause for trepidation over the security of our national security is not simply rooted in consistent and persistent lapses at airports. When National Intelligence Chief Clapper freely, unashamedly, admitted his obliviousness concerning the disruption of a major terrorist plot in London and the arrest of a dozen terrorist suspects, he could not even be granted a pass due to what could indelicately be termed a brain fart.

When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about his thoughts concerning those arrests, Clapper in effect responded by mumbling ala Tweety Bird, ”London? What? Terrorists? Where? When? Do you see a cat? I don’t see a cat.” Deer in headlights show more awareness.

The most unsettling aspect of Clapper’s ignorance of an event that was of major import to our national security was not even his bewilderment at the question or his desperately looking to Brennan to bail him out but rather in the spontaneous cover up by his fellow experts and by the White House . . .
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