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Intelligence Czar
07.23.04 (9:16 am)   [edit]
The 9/11 report suggests the creation of an Intelligence Czar to reduce intelligence failures. I think it's a bad idea for one reason:

Politics

Do we really need another crony to run interference for the President, to whitewash results and data to fit in with the President's agenda? If Rumsfeld and Rice are so incompetent with handling Intelligence that we have to suggest adding another person to the mix perhaps it'd be better to replace the incompetents. Certainly it would be cheaper.


The Intelligence Czar would be like the Drug Czar (Remember him? Didn't think so) and about as effective, certainly more destructive. An Intelligence Czar may solve some intelligence issues but wouldn't affect the other half, namely that the Administration had an agenda (and here I'm veering towards the invasion of Iraq) that it wanted to fulfill regardless of Intelligence. That is, what good is an Intelligence Czar if you have an Administration that will twist the results for its own purposes. If the Czar is an appointed crony then the situation will be worse. Truth will be a foreign concept if it isn't already.


So, no, we don't need an Intelligence Czar. What we need is a President with Intelligence.

 


posted by: SamAdams (reply)
post date: 07.23.04 (5:00 pm)

The 9/11 toadies didn't want to place the blame where it clearly should reside: with the buffoon-boy-cum-asshole Bush/ felon-embezzler-crook-Cheney and the incompetent and over-rated asshole Rice...

These crooks should be in prison charged with criminal neglience-and-malfeasance at minimum, and fraud, treason and war crimes. Instead they are "let-off-the-hook".

You are right that ultimately had we had good people in place, 9/11 could have been prevented. Hell, Dubya was on vacation with Condi Rice doing god-only-knows-what: certainly not reading the PDBs warning that OSAMA BIN LADEN IS ABOUT TO RAM AIRPLANES INTO BUILDINGS...

Whereas Clinton/Berger for all their faults thwarted over 15 terrorist attacks upon America.

Americans are dumb. An Intelligence Czar is simply another potential toady like Tenet or Rice-- who will fuck-us-over to lick the butts of crooks like Bush and Cheney.

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