Posted on 12/29/2007 7:49:31 PM PST by Libloather
Will a traitor head Obama's CIA?
Posted: December 27, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
This is the first in a four-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government.
At the beginning of the campaign season, top Democratic candidates scrambled after Clinton national security veterans with almost as much urgency as the U.S. and the Soviets once pursued German rocket scientists.
In either case, the winner would corner a certain market on national security expertise, a virtue in glaringly short supply among top Democratic candidates in this year's presidential hunt.
Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton secured the services of the more distinguished of the would-be advisers, Richard Holbrooke and Gen. Wesley Clark among them, as well as some of the more dubious, none more so than Sandy Berger and Joseph Wilson.
While Hillary walked away with the lion's share of the pickings, Barack Obama and John Edwards, alas, were left to divvy up the lamb's.
The most prominent among Obama's recruits is one Richard Clarke. Clarke served as America's top counterterrorism official during the Clinton years and famously stayed on the job under George W. Bush.
As history will record, he should not have. Clarke's attempt to undermine Bush's re-election campaign and, worse, the military campaign in Iraq, set a new gold standard for political treachery. It has made the retention of career national security officials all but impossible in anyone's future administration.
If Clarke had subverted the president for reasons of principle, one could almost forgive him. But claims of principle have to be based on a foundation of truth, and Clarke's were anything but. Indeed, even a cursory glance at his record shows him to be as dishonest as he is treacherous.
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Uh, oh. Another rocket surgeon...
will there be a cia if obama is elected?
Ha!
Read “Sabotage” by Rowan Scarborough.
‘America’s enimies within the CIA’
It’s already too late!
Jack needs to back to sleep and wake up when the general election is on-going.
Absolutely. Bureaucracies never die or shrink. They just become more useless and destructive.
Sure there will. However, it will be turned against Americans to investigate "hate crimes" and gun owners; even though it's not supposed to bother American citizens. But laws have never stood in the way of the determined self-righteous American Left. Meanwhile, foreign terrorists will own the streets.
I think the only correct response is: "DUH!"
Probably will. But from what I have seen, the CIA is already riddled with traitors.
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