Comments on: President Will Push Today for Intelligence Community to Constantly Challenge Its Assumptions

By: Beltbuckle

Beltbuckle — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:22:32 +0000

He hasnt done a thing since he has been in the office! No one has a clue anymore whats going on in regards to terroists? At least Bush had colors to warn us–I may be wrong but didnt the demos make fun of that???? Now we have nothing and the Pres is a no decision kinda guy! He will only be a one term kinda guy because he cant make decisions! What a piece of work he is–kinda sad I thought he would be more??

By: RhinoSquid

RhinoSquid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:07:49 +0000

XX – The men and women of the different intel agencies do a tough job and walk a fine line in doing so. Obama’s policy of allowing the threat of criminal prosecution of those brave men and women often does prevent one agency from passing information along to other agencies and to “higher ups”. You wanted proof of Obama preventing proper information dissemination, there ya go!

By: toby hill

toby hill — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:44:14 +0000

It’s been 9 days since the terrorist attack and yet Obama is just now getting around to his National Security Team.
It has been over 8 years since ANY airline attack on a US bound flight but yet in the last 4 months there has been a terrorist attack on a US base, a CIA base overseas and a terrorist attack on an airline. Who does not see the pattern?

By: Ed Taylor

Ed Taylor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:07:54 +0000

Has, uh, Robert Gibbs, uh, . . . uh, lost , uh, confidence? He,uh . . . uh, seems to now use, uh, more uhs than Obama uses periods in his, uh, speech?

By: MayBee

MayBee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:54:23 +0000

- are you equally ‘floored’ that Bush released 2 men from Gitmo who were a part of the recent airline fiasco.
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Wasn’t it just 1?
No, I’m not floored. It was obviously a mistake to release those guys. Let’s learn from it.

By: XX

XX — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:48:34 +0000

Since it’s creation by the Bush administration Homeland Security has been on auto pilot, failures involving the ‘undi-bomber’ indicate that since the inception of HS, the problems that led to it’s creation, coordination and intel sharing, problems continue throughout the many components of this massive agency,..
re: Last time I checked, he was the one trying to convince us that we need to back away from using terms such as “war on terror” and “terrorist”. Posted by: Shoe
- obviously, you have not really ‘checked’
re: If fault must be assigned, look toward those who set the boundaries and not the ones who are restricted by those boundaries..
like how a company is run..vote out the Board of Directors, not the stockholders.
Posted by: Parallex View
- now all you have to prove, is that Obama in some way prevented the agencies involved from passing information to one another, otherwise, nonsense
re: I’m just floored that most of the guys in Gitmo are from Yemen,
Posted by: MayBee
- are you equally ‘floored’ that Bush released 2 men from Gitmo who were a part of the recent airline fiasco.

By: skinny dog

skinny dog — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:47:50 +0000

Talking about constantly challenging your security assumptions, Man, our Greatest Smartest Clueless Leader (GSCL) has no clue a third un-identified person (UIP) was in his house mingling with himself, the Head of a foreign state and his guests at his state party for two months after it had taken place!!!
In God We Trust, so says the Dollar.

By: The War on The War on Terror

The War on The War on Terror — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:36:49 +0000

“President Will Push Today for Intelligence Community to Constantly Challenge Its Assumptions”
Does that mean we will stop releasing Gitmo detainees to Yemen??

By: Parallex View

Parallex View — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:30:52 +0000

Again, the intelligence community must function within the framework set-up by the current administration who is in POWER….If fault must be assigned, look toward those who set the boundaries and not the ones who are restricted by those boundaries…………You don’t like how a company is run..vote out the Board of Directors, not the stockholders….DUH

By: Parallex View

Parallex View — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:08:35 +0000

Homeland security says the “security worked” my question would be, for which side?? Deflecting the blame to those who have no power to change the framework that the current administration has set up,..when all is said and done, it all comes down to the buck stops at the top..The responsibility lies with the top officials who have the power to create the changes, to give the people on the front lines the tools needed to keep our nation safe. This is something that can’t be solved by playing pc politics, rehashing the events that have already taken place, we already KNOW what happened, 200 plus human beings came very close to losing their lives…WE GET THAT… tough choices, better yet DECISIONS must be made. Perhaps, it is time to look toward 2012 and for the American voter to make the tough choices that the current administration can’t…