National Insecurity, Compliments of the CIA and ODNI

National Insecurity, Compliments of the CIA and ODNI

Most objective observers knew from the outset that the Community Organizer in Chief was in way over his head when America elected Barack Hussein Obama as president based primarily on his vague promises of hope and change.

We cringed with his various czar appointments and wondered about the people he installed as protectors of our national security. Leon Panetta at age 71 was awarded the post as CIA Director even though his experience and expertise in the areas of foreign intelligence were nil and then 69 year old James R. Clapper became our Director of National Intelligence.

Panetta’s chief claim to fame were his nine terms as a California congressman from California and his 4 years as Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff. Panetta is a nothing more than a political hack. Retired Air Force Lt. General Clapper did have an intelligence background although you’d never know it.

The CIA is charged with furnishing “intelligence (or information) to the President, the National Security Council, and all other government officials who make and carry out US national security policy.” ODNI’s responsibility is to ”Ensure that timely and objective national intelligence is provided to the President, the heads of departments and agencies of the executive branch; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military commanders; and the Congress.”

Both the CIA and ODNI have failed miserably in their stated missions.

Tweedledum Panetta and Tweedledee Clapper have jointly reinforced Malcolm X’s and Obama’s favorite pastor’s line about America’s chickens coming home to roost. Panetta and Clapper have also reminded Americans that very people who are supposed to be keeping abreast of national security issues haven’t the vaguest clue as to what’s going on in the world.

When those chickens roost, America could be toast, for all they know. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3612)

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 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3175)