Never Believe This Intelligence Community

[PoliticalChic]

Aside from an astoundingly poor record of prognostication, what is laughingly called the 'intelligence community' suffers from the result of Leftists ruling the schools and the media for decades.

Just two dispositive examples:
a. Felonious leaks to the Leftist Washington Compost
and
b. Advancing what they know to be a slander and a lie: the Trump/Putin Collusion Thesis


The following from the former CIA Moscow Station head...


1. "The U.S. intelligence community is in the midst of a severe crisis. It has been used, or perhaps allowed itself to be used, as a tool of political destruction,...

2. We are seeing the widespread abuse of intelligence by an incumbent administration to target political opposition. Long a technique in the developing world — a tactic I often witnessed as a CIA station chief working abroad — the Third World has come to roost in the United States.

3. ...politicization is widely accepted throughout the intelligence community as the greatest hazard,....History is littered with intel failures; one need only look to the invasion of Iraq to see how politicization can lead to costly failure ...

4. The twin serpents of politicization and political correctness — a Soviet term, by the way — walk hand in hand throughout the intelligence community, as well as every other government agency. The PC mindset that now dominates every college campus is also positioned firmly throughout our government — particularly within the intelligence community, which saw its greatest personnel influx ever in the post-9/11 environment. Today’s intelligence community, ... reached professional maturity primarily under the Obama administration, immersed in a PC environment.

5. ....all diversity is embraced — except diversity of thought. Federal workers have been partisan for years, but combined with the rigid Obama PC mindset, it has created a Frankenstein of politicization that has never been seen before.



6. Watching Evelyn Farkas admit on TV that the Obama administration wanted the intelligence community to “get as much information as you can” before Donald Trump took office resembles some sort of social science experiment gone bad — and it frames the problems wrought by PC/political brainwashing.

7. Here a mid-level official, permanently dwelling in a bubble of progressive liberalism, acknowledged being complicit in the breaking of U.S. ethics rules and perhaps law — because, as she explained, that’s what they needed to do!

8. What is lacking, however, is any level of self-awareness, common sense or judgment. She is emblematic of the denizens of the Deep State that everyone in Washington likes to tell us doesn’t exist....made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.



9. ...made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.

10. The present culture of the intelligence community and the shameless political shenanigans of the Obama administration combined to create this disaster. ....CIA leadership famously stood up to the Nixon administration when asked to domestically spy on Justice during Watergate, for example.

It seems that today we lack the character and the competence to ensure that the intelligence community honors the trust of the American people."
How the intel community was turned into a political weapon against President Trump

 

[Billy_Bob]

A total avoidance by left wits..

Must be damn near dead center of target..

 

[miketx]

^Winner. The regressive gas bags have engaged all 77 sides of their mouths and still nothing.

 

[Timmy]

Do you believe what intel tells us about Syria ?

 

[Ted Frazier]

Aside from an astoundingly poor record of prognostication, what is laughingly called the 'intelligence community' suffers from the result of Leftists ruling the schools and the media for decades.

Just two dispositive examples:
a. Felonious leaks to the Leftist Washington Compost
and
b. Advancing what they know to be a slander and a lie: the Trump/Putin Collusion Thesis


The following from the former CIA Moscow Station head...


1. "The U.S. intelligence community is in the midst of a severe crisis. It has been used, or perhaps allowed itself to be used, as a tool of political destruction,...

2. We are seeing the widespread abuse of intelligence by an incumbent administration to target political opposition. Long a technique in the developing world — a tactic I often witnessed as a CIA station chief working abroad — the Third World has come to roost in the United States.

3. ...politicization is widely accepted throughout the intelligence community as the greatest hazard,....History is littered with intel failures; one need only look to the invasion of Iraq to see how politicization can lead to costly failure ...

4. The twin serpents of politicization and political correctness — a Soviet term, by the way — walk hand in hand throughout the intelligence community, as well as every other government agency. The PC mindset that now dominates every college campus is also positioned firmly throughout our government — particularly within the intelligence community, which saw its greatest personnel influx ever in the post-9/11 environment. Today’s intelligence community, ... reached professional maturity primarily under the Obama administration, immersed in a PC environment.

5. ....all diversity is embraced — except diversity of thought. Federal workers have been partisan for years, but combined with the rigid Obama PC mindset, it has created a Frankenstein of politicization that has never been seen before.



6. Watching Evelyn Farkas admit on TV that the Obama administration wanted the intelligence community to “get as much information as you can” before Donald Trump took office resembles some sort of social science experiment gone bad — and it frames the problems wrought by PC/political brainwashing.

7. Here a mid-level official, permanently dwelling in a bubble of progressive liberalism, acknowledged being complicit in the breaking of U.S. ethics rules and perhaps law — because, as she explained, that’s what they needed to do!

8. What is lacking, however, is any level of self-awareness, common sense or judgment. She is emblematic of the denizens of the Deep State that everyone in Washington likes to tell us doesn’t exist....made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.



9. ...made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.

10. The present culture of the intelligence community and the shameless political shenanigans of the Obama administration combined to create this disaster. ....CIA leadership famously stood up to the Nixon administration when asked to domestically spy on Justice during Watergate, for example.

It seems that today we lack the character and the competence to ensure that the intelligence community honors the trust of the American people."
How the intel community was turned into a political weapon against President Trump

How's the weather in Moscow?

 

[miketx]

Do you believe what intel tells us about Syria ?

And he saw the thread title and still he said it.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Do you believe what intel tells us about Syria ?

Depends on which one and duty assignment.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Aside from an astoundingly poor record of prognostication, what is laughingly called the 'intelligence community' suffers from the result of Leftists ruling the schools and the media for decades.

Just two dispositive examples:
a. Felonious leaks to the Leftist Washington Compost
and
b. Advancing what they know to be a slander and a lie: the Trump/Putin Collusion Thesis


The following from the former CIA Moscow Station head...


1. "The U.S. intelligence community is in the midst of a severe crisis. It has been used, or perhaps allowed itself to be used, as a tool of political destruction,...

2. We are seeing the widespread abuse of intelligence by an incumbent administration to target political opposition. Long a technique in the developing world — a tactic I often witnessed as a CIA station chief working abroad — the Third World has come to roost in the United States.

3. ...politicization is widely accepted throughout the intelligence community as the greatest hazard,....History is littered with intel failures; one need only look to the invasion of Iraq to see how politicization can lead to costly failure ...

4. The twin serpents of politicization and political correctness — a Soviet term, by the way — walk hand in hand throughout the intelligence community, as well as every other government agency. The PC mindset that now dominates every college campus is also positioned firmly throughout our government — particularly within the intelligence community, which saw its greatest personnel influx ever in the post-9/11 environment. Today’s intelligence community, ... reached professional maturity primarily under the Obama administration, immersed in a PC environment.

5. ....all diversity is embraced — except diversity of thought. Federal workers have been partisan for years, but combined with the rigid Obama PC mindset, it has created a Frankenstein of politicization that has never been seen before.



6. Watching Evelyn Farkas admit on TV that the Obama administration wanted the intelligence community to “get as much information as you can” before Donald Trump took office resembles some sort of social science experiment gone bad — and it frames the problems wrought by PC/political brainwashing.

7. Here a mid-level official, permanently dwelling in a bubble of progressive liberalism, acknowledged being complicit in the breaking of U.S. ethics rules and perhaps law — because, as she explained, that’s what they needed to do!

8. What is lacking, however, is any level of self-awareness, common sense or judgment. She is emblematic of the denizens of the Deep State that everyone in Washington likes to tell us doesn’t exist....made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.



9. ...made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.

10. The present culture of the intelligence community and the shameless political shenanigans of the Obama administration combined to create this disaster. ....CIA leadership famously stood up to the Nixon administration when asked to domestically spy on Justice during Watergate, for example.

It seems that today we lack the character and the competence to ensure that the intelligence community honors the trust of the American people."
How the intel community was turned into a political weapon against President Trump

How's the weather in Moscow?

And in this post, by a full blown dunce, we see exactly that the CIA officer who authored the article in the OP, was speaking of.
"....all diversity is embraced — except diversity of thought. Federal workers have been partisan for years, but combined with the rigid Obama PC mindset, it has created a Frankenstein of politicization that has never been seen before."


Anyone wanna bet that the dunce is a government school grad?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Aside from an astoundingly poor record of prognostication, what is laughingly called the 'intelligence community' suffers from the result of Leftists ruling the schools and the media for decades.

Just two dispositive examples:
a. Felonious leaks to the Leftist Washington Compost
and
b. Advancing what they know to be a slander and a lie: the Trump/Putin Collusion Thesis


The following from the former CIA Moscow Station head...


1. "The U.S. intelligence community is in the midst of a severe crisis. It has been used, or perhaps allowed itself to be used, as a tool of political destruction,...

2. We are seeing the widespread abuse of intelligence by an incumbent administration to target political opposition. Long a technique in the developing world — a tactic I often witnessed as a CIA station chief working abroad — the Third World has come to roost in the United States.

3. ...politicization is widely accepted throughout the intelligence community as the greatest hazard,....History is littered with intel failures; one need only look to the invasion of Iraq to see how politicization can lead to costly failure ...

4. The twin serpents of politicization and political correctness — a Soviet term, by the way — walk hand in hand throughout the intelligence community, as well as every other government agency. The PC mindset that now dominates every college campus is also positioned firmly throughout our government — particularly within the intelligence community, which saw its greatest personnel influx ever in the post-9/11 environment. Today’s intelligence community, ... reached professional maturity primarily under the Obama administration, immersed in a PC environment.

5. ....all diversity is embraced — except diversity of thought. Federal workers have been partisan for years, but combined with the rigid Obama PC mindset, it has created a Frankenstein of politicization that has never been seen before.



6. Watching Evelyn Farkas admit on TV that the Obama administration wanted the intelligence community to “get as much information as you can” before Donald Trump took office resembles some sort of social science experiment gone bad — and it frames the problems wrought by PC/political brainwashing.

7. Here a mid-level official, permanently dwelling in a bubble of progressive liberalism, acknowledged being complicit in the breaking of U.S. ethics rules and perhaps law — because, as she explained, that’s what they needed to do!

8. What is lacking, however, is any level of self-awareness, common sense or judgment. She is emblematic of the denizens of the Deep State that everyone in Washington likes to tell us doesn’t exist....made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.



9. ...made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse” civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.

10. The present culture of the intelligence community and the shameless political shenanigans of the Obama administration combined to create this disaster. ....CIA leadership famously stood up to the Nixon administration when asked to domestically spy on Justice during Watergate, for example.

It seems that today we lack the character and the competence to ensure that the intelligence community honors the trust of the American people."
How the intel community was turned into a political weapon against President Trump

How's the weather in Moscow?

The only folks aligned with Russia are Democrats:

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

...the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

....major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons,...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/...s-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html


And

"Both Hillary Clinton And John Podesta Made Millions From Russia & Putin"
Both Hillary Clinton And John Podesta Made Millions From Russia & Putin » Liberty Alliance

 

[PoliticalChic]

Do you believe what intel tells us about Syria ?

The Intelligence community is not only a failure, but joined at the hip with the Democrats.


" Repeating an accusation over and over again is not evidence that the accused is guilty, no matter how much “confidence” the accuser asserts about the conclusion. Nor is it evidence just to suggest that someone has a motive for doing something. Many conspiracy theories are built on the notion of “cui bono” – who benefits – without following up the supposed motive with facts.


.... that is essentially what the U.S. intelligence community has done regarding the dangerous accusation that Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated a covert information campaign to influence the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election in favor of Republican Donald Trump.


....the case, as presented, is one-sided and lacks any actual proof. Further, the continued use of the word “assesses” – as in the U.S. intelligence community “assesses” that Russia is guilty – suggests that the underlying classified information also may be less than conclusive because, in intelligence-world-speak, “assesses” often means “guesses.”
US Report Still Lacks Proof on Russia 'Hack'




There is the January 6th intelligence community report on Russian spying, that should serve as the only document that is dispositive in this connection:

a. "We did not make an assessment that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election..."

b. "Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation, and precedents.”


Get that???? No evidence.....unlike the Susan Rice revelations.

 

[Meane]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

 

[Meane]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

The mister sounds a wee bit too affected to be objective. Affection creates the patriotism. But to be patriotic and objective at same time of one's own affairs is not possible.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

The mister sounds a wee bit too affected to be objective. Affection creates the patriotism. But to be patriotic and objective at same time of one's own affairs is not possible.

Not possible.....for you.
Seems to be an affliction of government school grads.


There are, I am sure, a number of honest Liberals....why, another one could come along any day now....any day.....

 

[Meane]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

The mister sounds a wee bit too affected to be objective. Affection creates the patriotism. But to be patriotic and objective at same time of one's own affairs is not possible.

Not possible.....for you.
Seems to be an affliction of government school grads.


There are, I am sure, a number of honest Liberals....why, another one could come along any day now....any day.....

Did you go to a private school?

My scools were never and aren't considered to be owned by the government.

 

[Mr Natural]

We should only believe what comes out of a republican controlled White House.

Everything else is bullshit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

The mister sounds a wee bit too affected to be objective. Affection creates the patriotism. But to be patriotic and objective at same time of one's own affairs is not possible.

Not possible.....for you.
Seems to be an affliction of government school grads.


There are, I am sure, a number of honest Liberals....why, another one could come along any day now....any day.....

Did you go to a private school?

My scools were never and aren't considered to be owned by the government.

OMG!!!

"My scools (sic) were never and aren't considered to be owned by the government."


Priceless!!!!!
Another post from ' i kan spel qood'

 

[PoliticalChic]

We should only believe what comes out of a republican controlled White House.

Everything else is bullshit.

And now for a refresher on Obamunist's Susan Rice's history of lying:
1. Benghazi
2. Bergdahl
3. All the chemical weapons out of Syria
4. Knew nothing about spying on Trump folks


Bet you believed every one of 'em, you dunce.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's always some former person to talk. Maybe he tried to sound poetic but it came out like a propaganda flier eighthy years back.

Why do you always search and copy past this garbage? Don't you ideas of your own?

And a MutatedGene checks in!

And yet one more example of the sort of reliable Democrat vote that the government schools turn out.


Notice that patriotism and objectivity are referred to by this dolt as 'propaganda.'

The mister sounds a wee bit too affected to be objective. Affection creates the patriotism. But to be patriotic and objective at same time of one's own affairs is not possible.

Not possible.....for you.
Seems to be an affliction of government school grads.


There are, I am sure, a number of honest Liberals....why, another one could come along any day now....any day.....

Did you go to a private school?

My scools were never and aren't considered to be owned by the government.

BTW.....I went to the school with the best fight song in the nation!

 

[Mr Natural]

And now for a refresher on Obamunist's Susan Rice's history of lying:
1. Benghazi
2. Bergdahl
3. All the chemical weapons out of Syria
4. Knew nothing about spying on Trump folks


Bet you believed every one of 'em, you dunce.

How about you go fuck yourself, you pedantic asshole!