Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Absolutely, positively....

THE REAL BUSH INTELLIGENCE FAILURE:

"What we can say with assurance is that even as George W. Bush has overseen the single most far-reaching reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) since the CIA was created in 1947, his single greatest failure as a president might well be that American intelligence remains mired in bureaucratic mediocrity."

We have spent the last 30+ years emasculating our intelligence services; and this assessment is as valid as anything I have seen. If the "chickens came home to roost" on 9/11, it was not because we had done the Arabs wrong; but because we turned the CIA and sister organizations over to lawyers and (forgive me) liberals who were hell-bent on apologizing to the rest of the world for some previous misdeeds. Basically, you can thank Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and John Kerry for this mess - the ones who are blaming everyone else the most.


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