Posted on 12/23/2010 3:33:20 AM PST by Scanian
Question: What do you call the Director of National Int Director of National Intelligence when he seems to be short of intelligence?
Answer: James Clapper.
On Monday, Diane Sawyer asked the White House's top anti-terrorism brains about the fallout from the sweeping arrests of 12 men in the UK early that morning.
Clapper's response: Silence. Crickets. The sound of one career, well, imploding. Pressed by Sawyer, he admitted he simply hadn't heard of the matter.
It was a mortifying lapse given Clapper's position: As DNI, he oversees all 16 US intelligence agencies and serves as chief intel adviser to the president.
Yesterday, we congratulated Attorney General Eric Holder for finally recognizing the threat posed by homegrown terror. Little did we know the rest of Team Obama was busy napping in a bunker.
Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan put on a Beltway smile and tried to cast Clapper's ignorance as a virtue.
Sure, the raid was all over the news Monday. But "I am glad," Brennan said, "that Jim Clapper is not sitting in front of the TV 24 hours a day."
Maybe he should be.
This is the same Brennan who defended jihad as a "legitimate tenet of Islam" back in May, and excused terrorists as victims of "social and economic forces."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Drudge? How about a quick scan of the FR breaking news sidebar?
But why worry? Homos in the military can now come out, and Obozo says that strengthens our defenses against all that wish to do us harm.
Oh yeah, that Brennan is a piece of work-—a hack’s hack.
We’re in good hands with that group alright.
Now, now-—we can’t have our “best and brightest” “wasting their time” looking at sleazy rightwing websites, can we?
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Yes he did. And that was classic Jack Webb. I love that old STUFF! LOL
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