Posted on 09/13/2021 12:02:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe laid out the top threats to U.S. national security.
According to Ratcliffe, President Joe Biden was the greatest short-term national security threat given he was “ignoring actual intelligence.”
Partial transcript as follows:
First on Afghanistan, it’s the most profound loss for the United States in our lifetime.
This most recent, most painful, colossal, epic failure in Afghanistan has literally breathed life into the radical Islamic terrorist movement, not just in Afghanistan, but around the world.
I wrote an article as the Director of National Intelligence saying that China was our number one national security threat. I did that as I was walking out the door based on the fact I’m the person that saw more Intelligence than anyone else in the country over the past year and China very much is that existential threat to our country.
But if I had to write that op-ed today, I would tell you that I think our greatest national security threat, at least in the short term, is Joe Biden and our national security apparatus. They have literally gotten everything wrong for eight straight months with respect to China, with respect to Russia, with respect to Iran, with respect throughout the Middle East now, including Afghanistan.
They’re striking out at every turn and it’s having a profound and grave impact on our national security
And I think what’s most troubling is that we are facing for the next three years is a President who is not listening to the Intelligence. Our Intelligence was crystal clear about what was going to happen in Afghanistan if we withdrew without conditions based — terms that we had negotiated.
And when Biden abandoned that plan, it went exactly to what we said was going to happen.
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Hey, hey, a former Trump appointee who’s not a Uniparty (R) backstabbing Judas. You don’t see that everyday.
I would say the people behind Biden is out greatest threat. Joe has not a clue.
Biden is a traitor who has to be removed from office ASAP and tried for treason but sadly we have too many other traitors in Congress
The people who run the Biden Show are the greatest threat. Biden isn’t in charge of anything. Same was true of Obama; he was just better at reading the lines. Clean and articulate and so forth.
They’re striking out at every turn and it’s having a profound and grave impact on our national security
This deserves to be read everyday for the next three years!
We don’t have national security anymore. That’s no longer an objective of the regime. They discarded that along with our freedoms.
Yep, congress will never impeach him. Regardless of what Biden does, the GOP will give him a pass.
Agree, Biden is a figurehead only. The people or cabal that pull the strings on this idiot are of greater concern, because it is not 100% clear who they are.
I wouldn’t limit it to Joetato Brain. The Democrat Party in toto is a severe threat to the United States.
Good thing you worked oh so very hard to keep him out of the White House, huh RATcliffe?!
These people make me physically ill.
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