The story needs some photos of this analyst.
And, given his donation of money, I don't think intelligence is his business...and he certainly isn't bipartisan.
So, I read the linked article and saw this link in it to the NYT, talking about the guy's boss.
Here is this supposed CIA "analyst" Edward Price, working as an "aide" (according to the article) to a guy who was in college trying to be a writer on 9/11. (The guy Price was an aide to, Ben Rhodes, has a degree in English and Political Science) The article calls him Obama's "Foreign Policy Guru". From Wikipedia:
"...In 2002, James Gibney, editor of Foreign Policy, introduced Rhodes to Lee Hamilton, former member of the House of Representatives and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who was looking for a speechwriter, Rhodes then spent five years as an assistant to Hamilton, helping to draft the Iraq Study Group Report and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. In 2007, Rhodes began working as a speechwriter for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. Rhodes wrote Obama's 2009 Cairo speech "A New Beginning". Rhodes was the adviser who counseled Obama to withdraw support from Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, becoming a key adviser during the 2011 Arab Spring. Rhodes was instrumental in the conversations that led to Obama reestablishing the United States' diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been cut off since 1961. The New York Times reported that Rhodes spent "more than a year sneaking off to secret negotiations in Canada and finally at the Vatican" in advance of the official announcement in December 2014. In March 2013, Rhodes declined to comment on his role in Obama administration policy decisions, saying, "My main job, which has always been my job, is to be the person who represents the president’s view on these issues." In a May 2016 New York Times profile about him, Rhodes' colleagues in the White House said he spent two to three hours a day with Obama, and Rhodes himself said, "I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends...”
So, that is the background of the guy that this CIA "analyst" Ned Price was an "aide" to. In reading the excerpt from Wikipedia, it sounds like Price's boss Rhodes was deeply complicit in many of the reprehensible foreign policy disasters and failures. And Price was his "aide". As to where his boss (Rhodes) begins and Obama ends, I suspect there is a relationship to a head of one person and an ass of another. Price is a flunky, far down the chain.
That said, in reading the NYT article, you know what Price's job was? Helping his syncophantic boss spin events for a gullible and contempted public, with the assistance of the media who, full of jolly bonhomie in the interview, happily finished sentences for both Rhodes and Price in their effort to spin events to a public they obviously have no respect for.
When talking about the captured US sailors in Iran, here is the exchange...you can draw your own conclusions on this:
(From the New York Times article dated 5/5/2016; 280 words total):
In this environment, Rhodes has become adept at ventriloquizing many people at once. Ned Price, Rhodes’s assistant, gave me a primer on how it’s done. The easiest way for the White House to shape the news, he explained, is from the briefing podiums, each of which has its own dedicated press corps. “But then there are sort of these force multipliers,” he said, adding, “We have our compadres, I will reach out to a couple people, and you know I wouldn’t want to name them — ”
“I can name them,” I said, ticking off a few names of prominent Washington reporters and columnists who often tweet in sync with White House messaging.
Price laughed. “I’ll say, ‘Hey, look, some people are spinning this narrative that this is a sign of American weakness” he continued, “but — ”
“In fact it’s a sign of strength!” I said, chuckling.
“And I’ll give them some color,” Price continued, “and the next thing I know, lots of these guys are in the dot-com publishing space, and have huge Twitter followings, and they’ll be putting this message out on their own.”
This is something different from old-fashioned spin, which tended to be an art best practiced in person. In a world where experienced reporters competed for scoops and where carrying water for the White House was a cause for shame, no matter which party was in power, it was much harder to sustain a “narrative” over any serious period of time. Now the most effectively weaponized 140-character idea or quote will almost always carry the day, and it is very difficult for even good reporters to necessarily know where the spin is coming from or why.
Hahahahaha...isn't that just awesome? SOME people might think having US sailors taken captive by Iran makes us weak, but...we can make them think this is a good thing. They enjoy their jobs, shaping, lying about, deceiving, and misleading the public for the benefit of their immoral boss at the top. These people make me want to puke.
And this scumbag price, painting himself as some kind of principled patriot, an ostensible CIA professional analyst (as painted by the liberal media) yukking it up with a NYT reporter who gleefully finishes his sentence. Then we hear him piously intoning, in a pained voice “...Despite working proudly for Republican and Democratic presidents, I reluctantly concluded that I cannot in good faith serve this administration as an intelligence professional...”
This sure does steam me. This is one more example of why I despise and detest leftists.