ANOTHER LOUSY Intelligence Pick by Dennis Blair

Newsweek/Yidwithlid ^ | 3/15/09 | Yidwithlid

[Shellybenoit]

Chas Freeman was not the only questionable selection by Intelligence Chief Dennis Blair. Newsweek is reporting problems with another pick another Blair pick: John Deutch. Deutch is a former head of the CIA who was a bit sloppy with our nations secrets :

Add president Obama's national intelligence czar, Dennis Blair, to the list of embattled top-level appointees. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral who attended Oxford with Bill Clinton, courted controversy among pro-Israel and anti-China activists this month when he named Charles (Chas) Freeman, an outspoken former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to chair the National Intelligence Council, a committee of the government's top intel analysts. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other pols complained to the White House, Freeman abruptly withdrew. Now both Republican and Democratic intel experts are raising questions about another Blair pick: John Deutch, a former CIA director once accused of major security lapses, who's been appointed to a temporary panel reviewing troubled, top-secret spy-satellite programs.

[hinckley buzzard]

I see Blair is a Clintonoid. That explains a lot. I might have known he wasn't a real admiral.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Was watching Freeman being interviewed on CNN today. Couldn’t have been more biased if it were on Al-Jazeera.

[Republican Party Reptile]

I see Blair is a Clintonoid. That explains a lot. I might have known he wasn't a real admiral.

Just because he attended school with Bill Clinton?

Well, he was also in the same class as Ollie North ... and Jim Webb.

None of which really means much anything, except maybe to remind people that automatic association base on who and who went to the same school at the same time is a pretty silly exercise.

After all, G.W. Bush and John F. Kerry were classmates also (plus Al Gore, also attended Yale with W. and Kerry around the same time)

[LibFreeOrDie]

Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral who attended Oxford with Bill Clinton

What the h*ll were those "Rhodes Scholars" really doing while they were in England?

[Republican Party Reptile]

Well, one thing about the Rhodes Scholarship, it pretty much afford the recipient to study anything they want for two years at Oxford. The Rhodes Trust pays for tuition and fees, also provide a spending stipend to the scholars. They can study for a degree, but it's not really required.

The idea is to let the chosen scholars two years of intellectual freedom to pursue whatever study area they find interesting, without strings attached.

FWIW, the three U.S. Services Academies have produced around 160 Rhodes Scholars.