Posted on 05/05/2009 9:17:05 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Has Barack Obama made an enemy who can sabotage his presidency?
The presidency of George W. Bush began to unravel when some in high positions at the Central Intelligence Agency began waging a covert campaign against him.
It began in the summer of 2003 when officials at the CIA asked the Justice department to open a criminal investigation into who had disclosed to columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, wife of controversial former diplomat Joseph Wilson, worked at the CIA.
The officials knew at the time the Intelligence Identities Protection Act did not apply to Ms. Plame, who'd been out of the field for more than five years.
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I could see something coming from this...
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
one can only hope that stealth forces in the CIA and elsewhere will undermine this socialist regime now in the White House. Hopefully they will expose him for going out for crack and gay sex in the local DC public bathrooms.
What goes around comes around. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
What this new batch is doing though is extreamely dangerous to all of us.
Perhaps the CIA can find BHO’s birth certificate.... Apparently, nobody else can.
I think they deserve what they get from the dems. If their field guys wind up taking it in the shorts then sadly, that's TFB.
I hope the CIA does undermine Zero’s administration. Why not - he’s been doing all he can to undermine the economy of the United States.
Many are furious about his disclosure of explicit details of the interrogation methods used on some al Qaida bigwigs, and his waffling on whether or not those who employed them will be subject to prosecution.
Others are incensed by his decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and to let some of those incarcerated there (17 Chinese Uighurs) loose in the United States.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held two hush hush meetings with CIA Director Leon Panetta and Democratic members of the Intelligence Committee last week.
"Her fear and frustration have apparently given way to panic after word reached her of the CIA's reaction to the damage she, President Obama and other Democrats have done to the spy agency in the last three months, wrote Jed Babbin, a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, in Human Events May 1. "Pelosi learned that her actions and those of President Obama have so damaged CIA morale that the agency's ability to function could be in danger."
The upshot of the meetings was an unprecedented letter from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex) to Mr. Panetta, making a quasi-apology. Rep. Reyes asked the CIA director to "disseminate it to the CIA workforce as soon as possible."
Obama deserves whatever the CIA could do to him, he does not deserve the respect from any American. What would really be rich is if they leaked some things that could get him out of office. ( wishful thinking)
The novelist Charles McCarry was a deep cover CIA operative for ten years. “I never met a stupid person in the agency,” he said in a 2004 interview. “Or an assassin. Or a Republican.”
FYI ping, in light of your comments a day or so ago on another thread...
This is wishful thinking. It’s like expecting CNN to turn against him.
Dont f*ck with the CIA, or you'll wind up like JFK.
Point well taken.
The officials knew at the time the Intelligence Identities Protection Act did not apply to Ms. Plame, who'd been out of the field for more than five years.
Another blow was struck with the publication in 2004 of the book "Imperial Hubris" by Michael Scheuer, who'd headed the bin Laden desk during the Clinton administration. It was harshly critical of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror in general, and the invasion of Iraq in particular.
Never before had a serving officer been allowed to publish such a book.
The CIA typically slow-rolled and censored books even by retired CIA directors.
"Why did the CIA allow such a controversial book to be published in the first place?" asked attorney Mark Zaid, who specializes in national security law. "There is simply no question that the CIA could have prevented the publication of Scheuer's book if it had wanted to do so. And no court would have sided with him."
Why would some at the CIA want to sabotage President Bush? One motive might have been to deflect blame for intelligence failures. The CIA confidently had predicted Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. But none were found. The tactical intelligence the CIA provided to the U.S. military forces invading Iraq proved nearly worthless. And the CIA was caught flat-footed by the insurgency that developed several months after Saddam's fall.
There may have been a simpler motive. The novelist Charles McCarry was a deep cover CIA operative for ten years. "I never met a stupid person in the agency," he said in a 2004 interview. "Or an assassin. Or a Republican."
The CIA's war against President Bush was motivated by ass covering, or by political partisanship. But with President Obama, it's personal.
I worked in a DC Headquarters operation with USPS for several decades. There was no compartmentalization at all. However, I can tell you about the 12 Republicans I ever met.
There were more of 'em but in America's most unionized organization Republicans and conservative Democrats just kept it quiet.
Having been the ONLY guy in 50 years to pass around union cards for the purpose of calling for a union election to gain representation for USPS Headquarters employees, I was more or less entitled to be as Republican as I wished.
BTW, all the Republicans were among the first folks to give me representation cards. That was one cowardly batch of Democrats Fur Shur.
Top management at USPS do nothing whatsoever to open up promotion opportunities for Republicans or others. Because of their indolence the political balance at USPS Headquarters is pretty much the same as it was at POD Headquarters under Franklin Roosevelt.
You guys might talk to the Republicans appointed to the Board of Governors about that from time to time ~ or should I say the RINOs appointed to the BOG. Their cowardice is equal to that of the Democrats in that agency.
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held two hush hush meetings with CIA Director Leon Panetta and Democratic members of the Intelligence Committee last week.
“Her fear and frustration have apparently given way to panic after word reached her of the CIA’s reaction to the damage she, President Obama and other Democrats have done to the spy agency in the last three months, wrote Jed Babbin, a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, in Human Events May 1. “Pelosi learned that her actions and those of President Obama have so damaged CIA morale that the agency’s ability to function could be in danger.”
If Nazi Pelosi is in a ‘panic’..it is not because she fears that the CIA morale is low. It is because she is afraid of this whole thing blowing up in the dems faces and them losing their power. Of course, it could be that she was told that some ‘secrets’ were coming out soon on Obama and the rest of the dem traitors(including her).
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