Exclusive: President Obama To Replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair*

Well, that’s all very reassuring. Seems like everything is still working perfectly.

Yeah, but the really need to take a hard look at Napolitano…she’s the other one who should be held just as or more responsible!

How about Al Gore as a replacement. Would fit in just fine in this (White) house of clowns.

I knew Blair’s days were numbered when he accurately pointed ou to the intel community that waterboarding terrorists had given us useful and timely information about Al Quada. This truth was unacceptable to Obama. Blair further stated that he would defend any intel personnel targeted for prosecution if they had engaged in “enhanced interrogation”. Another no-no in Obama’s eyes.

Instead of giving the Mexican president a platform to denounce the USA, Obama should have demanded the deportation of all illegal alien murderers, rapists, drug cartel members incarcerated in our jails to the Mexican president as a token gift of our friendship.

FBI DIRECTOR SHOULD ALSO STEP DOWN.
Given that the FBI Director and his office in Pittsburgh have been in possession of prima facie evidence of FINANCIAL ELDER ABUSE in W.Va., but have not only done nothing about it, but have LIED about it to the Federal Prosecutor to protect the perpetrator who is a lawyer in W.Va., the President should demand the immediate resignation of the FBI Director and the entire Pittsburgh office.
The FBI is a CRIME in itself for its willful refusal to PROTECT the most vulnerable among us while knowingly allowing lawyers in W.Va. to embezzle MILLIONS of dollars WITH the knowledge and acceptance by the FBI.
The FBI is a disgrace.

Ok it is a start.. Now he needs to FLUP by removing Holder, Napolitano,all of his rather “leftist” Czars, Summers, Veto the HC care bill and the DUDD Horrible Wall Street Fix that does not address Freddie and Fannie… after this , before he tries to walk on water again, our Majik Messiah must do one more thing IF he is really a patriot .. RESIGN in order to SAVE THE USA!!!!

Question regarding National Security…Did Obama Read the Arizona anti Inavder;s law to Calderon and did Either one of theose two Clown acrually understand it??????

Wouldn’t Obama and and intelligence be an oxymoron?

The chaos will continue unabated, though the names may change.

Blair personifies the incompetence of a broad composition of personnel within the Obama Administration, starting right at the very top. When it comes to Intelligence, this Administration is, without doubt, the most incompetent Presidency, ever. If you doubt what I say, ask yourself in the quiet hours of your disturbed sleep, “Do I really feel safer, given the diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement record of the Obama Administration?”
I sure don’t!

How about that 6 year old girl who spilled the beans that her mother didn’t have papers? She certainly appears to have more intelligence and sense than Obamadinejad or anyone in his administration.

Impeach obama !!!

First-rate managers hire first-rate people. Second-rate managers hire third-rate people. 0bama has not even achieved the status of second-rate for himself.

This huge chaotic mess was handed to the Obama administration. Imagine how difficult it is to manage national security when you have been handed a big screwed up mess to straighten out. I don’t agree with many of the decisons Obama has made, but how in the world is he suppose to fix corruption and incompetence that was created over many decades in such a short time.

The market tanks and jobless claims rise-but no mention on this blog. Most of the MSM ignored today’s job data-but let there be a mild improvment and the recession is over,thanks to the policies of Corpseman Obama.This DNI is like most in this administration-in over their heads,incompetent and unable to recognize their failures.It should be self-evident that things are NOT getting better with this economy-it is very likely that the administration’s actions have worsened the situation and delayed the recovery.There is NO EVIDENCE that the stimulus has had any positive effect on the economy-the administration was totally caught unawares by today’s news-the media can’t hide it forever.

Why can’t this moron illegitimate President take a hint and resign. Yes, Vlenore, Obama and intelligence is an oxymoron too!
How about asking Eric Holder, and the idiot-clown Napolitano to resign, what’s wrong with this picture!

DC rumor is the next guy is Holder.

“hugh chaotic mess handed to the Obama administration…”It was working pretty damn well until Jan. 20, 2009-How many successful Islamic terrorist attacks took place in the US after 9/11? How many failed attempts were splashed all over the media in an attempt to gain credit at the expense of operational security? Cheney is right about the Obama security priorities.

Ok now about Holder and Napolitano…

Holder isn’t going.His home life is hell and he has lost 20 pounds since taking the position-but he wants to stay.(Family sources)As long as his wife supports him he will stay.Obama will never dump him.

Obama should call on someone he trusts – the man who launched his political career in his kitchen in Chicago – William Ayers.

I was against this guy getting that job from day one. He has an attitude problem

There has to be a lot going on behind the scene’s that the Main Stream Media is fearful of reporting. Dir. Blair has been fighting to do the right thing and protect this Nation…and Obama can not have a competent, Patriotic American in his Administration-you can’t destroy a Nation from within that way.

Napolitano should go as well, she is a zero as Director of Homeland Security. Marine Corp General Tony Zinni (ret) would be an excellent choice to replace either one of these people. If Obama appoints another one of his leftist buddies into this job, we as a country are toast. Change we can believe in, yes all the wrong kinds.

Hey Obama- You may want to consider Chavez to fill that spot and then you wouldn’t have to waste your time explaining your devoted friendship to himj

Seems to me Blair was left out of the loop so he wouldn’t be privy to intelligence. He was pushed out to be replaced by someone more “suitable” to the Obama agenda. Brennan was involved in the Obama passport breach. This isn’t good at all.

Blair should protect himself and declare no British Subject is eligible. Otherwise he will likely find himself in a cell just like all of the others who violated their oaths.

I’m with many here. The DNI had little, if anything, to do with the Christmas bomber even getting into position to attempt his act. Nor was he a major player in the Times Square bomber almost leaving the playing field. Both of these, and many other less significant but nonetheless important failures, lie at the feet of DHS Napolitano and the nakedly political way she’s driven her department and handled her responsibilities. She scares me.

The DNI and The Department of Homeland Security was certainly not the answer to our intelligence problems, from my experience. We added another agency/institution on top of already bloated bureaucracy we had. Blair may have not been the right for the job, on the contrary the job was not right from the beginning. we need to seriously streamline the Intelligence Community.

This isn’t a flag football game, if the President doesn’t have confidence in Blair he should be gone. At the end of the day, Obama is to blame if he doesn’t have the best people in place, just like Bush and heckuva job Brownie (or even anti-surge Rumsfeld for that matter).

Obama spent $1.5 million of our tax dollars to pay his attorneys to keep the Americans who elected him from exposing his past; now we find out he was using a dead person’e SSN from Connecticut.
When will the nightmare end?

You people that voted for this administration are getting exactly what you wanted…change. This administration is WAY OVER ITS HEAD. Time to fess up libs. Get another candidate for 2012 because this guy is headed for the dugout.

Obama has to have someone to blame for his making our intelligences services PC and political. Obama is incompetent but wants to point the finger at everyone else.

Can the President even legally do this? He is the president. Wouldn’t it be a conflict to take on another position? Maybe we should fire everybody

Can the President even legally do this? He is the president.
bookaroo | May 20, 2010 7:10:28 PM
The President’s constitutional duty is the operation of the Executive branch. Legally, he is the person explicitly granted the authority to do this.

Coordinating 16 different intelligence agencies is to my mind similar to this same number of people providing a description of an elephant not having their eyes covered and not having a complete elephant in front of them.
The number of unknowns at any given time
seems perplexing.
I really appreciate all those who do their best to make what they do happen
for us.
My the force be with the next person.

Blair’s an Admiral that says it all. Incompetence, nepotism and corruption litter the navy. Obvious by the incidents that he is a typical navy product. Good that he’s gone before somebody gets hurt.

jake.Look at that resignation statement again. No perfunctory praise for Obama. Did you ever consider the non- WH spin that he quit because he couldn’t stomach this incompetant president and his administration? The only thing missing from his statement was “good luck” at the end.

Damn, some of you obviously have no life if all you do all day long is complain and find nothing but negative things to occupy your thoughts. Get a life already, there’s more to life than stupid politics and who did this and who did that. Get a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a pet, another job. Man, I have never seen a bigger bunch of whinners than I see now. Imagine if there was no internet, what would you do with your lives? Is there anything going on now that makes you happy or say something positive, or it all dark and gloomy?

Maybe Blair recognized the administration’s incompetence and was trying to change it for the Nation’s good but realized that isn’t on their priority list after he pushed back and his integrity had to rule out.

Jake, do you think there is any story here? ugh.

Hey, let’s replace Blair with someone who has never analyzed intelligence! Kind of like the President is doing with Scotus-nominee Kagan, who has never adjudicated a case. Just find a crony, or someone that is owed a favor and knows how to kiss White House butt and they will be the new Blair. Easy call.

Apparently he refused to kiss Obama’s butt.

Maybe what we are expecting from Blair and Obama is only possible in a perfect world and in our imagination. Problems occur in the real world even with the best people in place. It is not a disgrace that Blair could not succeed or that Obama is going to try a personnel change. I doubt that anyone on here, including myself, could even come close to handling the many problems that Blair and Obama have had to deal with.

REASON BLAIR HAS BEEN ON A ROCKY ROAD IS THAT OBAMA WOULD NOT LET HIM DO HIS JOB. AGAIN, ANOTHER “GOOD GUY” LOSES AND THE “LOW LIFES” COME OUT ON TOP.

It is Obama and Janet that need to resign. Heck his whole admin needs to resign. If a major city is hit by those who practice radical Islam while these incompetents are in charge it will be game over.
The can’t even admit the torpedoing of a S. Korean battleship by N. Korea is an act of war. It surely isn’t an act of love. We are so screwed, the fox is in the hen house.
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Obama intel chief: tough interrogations yielded “high-value info”
President Obama’s director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, told colleagues in an internal memo last week that the aggressive interrogation tactics approved by the Bush administration yielded “high-value information” that helped the U.S. in the war on terror.
“High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the Al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country,” Blair wrote in a memo to the intelligence community the same day Obama ordered the release of legal memos detailing the techniques, which included waterboarding, slamming detainees into “flexible” walls and prolonged sleep deprivation.
Blair’s assertion of the program’s fruits was notable because while former President Bush, former Vice President Cheney and others have claimed that the program produced volumes of useful intelligence, Obama and other top aides have refused to acknowledge any benefits from the tough tactics. As recently as Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs demurred when asked about claims that the program helped break up terror plots.
Curiously, Blair’s assessment that the program was to some degree a success was omitted from the public press statement he issued on Thursday. However, even that press release signaled some distance with Obama by cautioning against 20-20 hindsight prompted by reading the legal memos “on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009.”
Blair’s internal memo has been posted on the Web since Friday, the day after Obama released the legal opinions from the Justice Department. A blog post Friday at a nonprofit think tank, the U.S. Naval Institute, noted several discrepancies between the press release and the internal memo. The press release also omitted a line claiming that congressional leaders and executive branch officials were “repeatedly” briefed on the interrogation program and allowed it to continue.

No one who is not a strict loony left idealogue can be in this administration.

tylerkad,actually Bill Clinton brought this country to the precipice while he was trying to “not have sex with that woman”.I can only assume by your rhetoric that you are a true believer and there is limited hope for you.You know that the majority of people in this country are ready to get obama out as soon as possible and you fear that you may someday have to get a real job.

Very true,Jedburgh.

The positive comments regarding Mr (or Admiral) Blair are spot on. I’ve also worked with him and found him to be insightful, honorable and intelligent. The only thing I find surprising is how he could work in such a dysfunctional, corrupt administration. When he walks out the door we will have become noticablly weaker.

So many phony experts . . .
tierra | May 20, 2010 9:31:39 PM
Not necessarily. Admiral Blair is a good man and very well respected for his intelligence – that’s why Obama chose him in the first place. He didn’t work out; it happens. Surprising it hasn’t happened more with Obama’s habit of collecting prima donnas (in a good sense – who thought Ms. Clinton would do such solid work in the background this long?). And the leaks are a sign to me that someone in the administration lost their cool and just had to get in some parting digs. A display of bad form from a typically tightly run Whitehouse.

How can one person contain 16 egos? this was a no-win job. Best of luck in future endeavors, Mr Blair. We need to get rid of those 16 uncooperative egos before we can expect any constructive improvement. This is not an isolated problem, a turf war is ingrained in the intelligence community.

Very Bad nerws.Blair is a man of integrity and experience.Obama will appoint another one of his leftist friends who will make things worse.

You people who blindly support Obama will regret it within one year. You will feel like and be considered fools. Mark this.
Posted by: NobodySpecial | May 20, 2010 10:31:41 PM
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Oh I see what you mean. Just like the people who blindly supported Bush?

watch Obama thr fraud appoint a zionist to the post…thats what he seems to be doing: creating a crew to bring about more war for israel..is it any wonder his reputation has imploded!

watch Obama thr fraud appoint a zionist to the post…thats what he seems to be doing: creating a crew to bring about more war for israel..is it any wonder his reputation has imploded!
Posted by: brian | May 20, 2010 11:46:49 PM
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Interesting . … the President gets attacked for being a Muslim, a terrorist, a foreigner, anti-semetic . .. and now he’s a zionist supporter.
I suppose it doesn’t matter if there’s any consistency at all – as long as he’s attacked.

Posted by: brian | May 20, 2010 11:52:15 PM
Some news agencies are reporting the House of Representives backed this funding with a 410-4 margin.
This must be a record for Republican support for a White House initiative.
Interesting.

Obama sided with the complete and total incompetence and insanity of Eric Holder, and “The System Worked” Napolitano over Blair! What a surprise! The radical arrogant left wing agenda that has us planning billion dollar circus trials in NYC for the murdering terrorists who planned 9/11 has won! Our nation is in the hands of the weak, dishonest, and incompetent! We are all in terrible peril!!!

On December 20, 2006 it was reported that the US Department of Defense Inspector General’s Investigation into the Dennie Blair violation of the IDA’s Conflict of Interest Rules.
Yet you claim he was the right man for the job.
In the 1990′s he had a history of disobeying orders.
Yet you claim he was the right man for the job.
And then there was a number of close calls with terrorists, and Dennie Blair’s miss handling of the National Counterterrorism Center and failure to get the his agency to work with different agencies together.
Yet you claim he was the right man for the job.
Maybe you want our country to be weakened, because that is where we were heading if Dennis Blair was allowed to continue.

replace him with Pee Wee Herman.
that would be most appropriate especially for meetings with Eric Holder and Janet Reno, Jr.

Van Jones would be perfect for the job.
The only thing we can be sure of is the appointment of someone totally wrong for the job. THE ENTIRE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS FRIGHTENINGLY WRONG FOR THE JOB.

Obama wants a national intelligence director with no intelligence and a love of islam.

Really?
What’s up with these rasism claims?
It’ something else, it is always hidden, that you cannot even imagine. The true motive is very well buried under these claims.

The President want work, better then rebublican´s and Bush, about economy, social and securety.

Iam amazed by some of the words used by some people about your President, it doesn’t feel like an honour to be an American Leader. Whether you like him or not Obama is your president, and you must respect that. It shows you love and value the democratic principles of your own country!!! I am so glad I am not American, in England we would never express such words about a leader.

We have this gem from David “across the pond”:
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David…. that’s why we are America and you are England. The difference: Spine.

Whatever happened to Truth and Freedom? The Trust in our government is gone. Fear and Division is a systematic illness fostered by our leaders.
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Revelation 21:8

Headlines: “Exclusive: President Obama To Replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair”. Obama is going to replace him?? Good grief! Obama has already proven himself incapable of being president, incapable of running the Auto industry, incapabable of running the banks, incapable of regulating safety of off shore oil wells, and so on and so on…now he wants to replace Dennis Blair as Intelligence Chief? How will he ever have time to do that…what with partying in NY, hosting the Mexican president in a Bash-the-USA-Fest? Obama should just appoint some other tax cheat or criminal to the job. Lord knows, he has enough of them in his entourage (except for the intelligent mouse that made its great escape yesterday). ohhhhhhhh…..i get it now: Obama is not going to REPLACE blair…he’s going to APPOINT someone to replace Blair. Silly me. You’d think that I’d be used to the inept editors of these stories by now, and realize that they don’t really have much of an education in grammar. I bet they used to be community organizers too.

Well, the man was doing the job assigned to him by Obama’s handlers and the vile Pelosi.
He was focused like a laser on the non-existent violent Tea Partiers and most likely had most of his resources detailed to watch Baptist Churches and elderly lady knitting clubs.
Let’s face reality, after yesterday’s vile demonstration by the communists in Congress for the Mexican President against Arizonians.
It is the Democratic Party vs
Americans.

Holder and Napolitano admitted they haven’t read the Arizona immigration bill they have been trashing up and down and still no reporting on this by ABC(or other news media). Folks, this is why you need Fox News. It’s not that Fox News is always accurate(they’re not–no media outlet is) but Fox will at least tell you about things ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN simply refuse to report on. If something happens in the world and the media ignores it and treats it as if it didn’t exist, does that mean the event still happened? Of course it does. That’s why people need to watch Fox News(at least from time to time) because otherwise people simply won’t be given the full and complete range of information they need to become well informed.

If Obama replace this man he must have been doing his job and fighting with the likes of holder and others like hin that Obama seclected.
Obama is going to be a one term president and it is ashame that the first black president turned out to be a liar. Surrounded by self serving losers he selected (all like him).
The black people deserved so much better, history will mark him as a liar and a con man who betrayed the American people who put into office.
No one can be proud to say he is our president with the exception of the network bias media, liberals (fewer of them now) and hollywood.
He could have been great – He could have changed America for the better and he didn’t and that’s the real shame Obama will have to live with.
As for us we will pay for many generations the damage he has caused not Bush.

When Eric Holder the Chief of DOJ and Napolitano head of Homeland Security,both state they have not read a 10 page law,but know the content and want to delcare it racial profiling,while costing the Tax Payers millions while they dribble koolaid. It is they who need to be replaced.

The firing of Admiral Blair by a Despot, Obama, is a classical example that Tyrants do not tolerate men of Stature and Honor who are Not Yes Men!
C. A. Stubbs – Texas Tax Watchdog

“by a Despot, Obama” C. A. Stubbs – Texas Tax Watchdog —– You need to live for a while in Iran if you don’t understand what “despot means”. How you can call Obama a despot when when people openly critizes him daily, he can’t control his own political party, much less Congress or the Supreme Court, where his term as President ends in two and a half years unless a enough people vote for him. You point at one case of Obama wanting to replace someone in his administration and call him a despot. Name a President that has not replaced someone in the administration where it was the President’s wish to let them go.

Blair was the commanding officer of the destroyer Cochrane while I was onboard. I had high hopes for him at his initial appointment as Director of National Intelligence. Speaking first hand of knowing how Blair goes about daily business, I think it’s unfair to bash Obama. Blair was back in the mid 80′s one to run things the way he wanted to. I knew as a 20 something year old that this man would do anything to make a name for himself. It didn’t make him a bad skipper, but I can see where it would be difficult to have him on a staff where he wasn’t calling all the shots.

OBAMA QUOTE:
“Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.”
Moral Compass? Really? What would you know about it Mr. Smartest-President-Ever?
The fact is that you, Mr. Obama, are extreme: In-your-face-Healthcare, Unaccountable Communist Loving Czars, Boldface Lies, Race-baiting, personal attacks on American Citizens who disagree with you and your Democrat Party, calling Tax Paying Natural Born American Citizens “nazi’s”, attempting to cover-up or dismiss 8 terrorist attacks or attempted attacks since you stepped into the “Office of the President”, and your fawning media that is complacently, treacherously, allowing these things to pass unquestioned, unanswered…
Moreover, it is the Democrats that “should not be elected to any public office”, EVER! Mr. Obama and the Democrat Party are the ones with the extreme views. Democrat Party is the one who acts like nazi’s. The Demi Party is the one attacking the U.S. Constitution, The Demo Party wants to control free speech, The Demo Party attacks the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms, The Demo Party wants unfettered control of individuals lives, The Demo Party “thinks” that it can make decisions for individuals better than they themselves can. All the while you are happy to see the United States Constitution eroded, year by year, decade by decade, making political fodder out of each issue until you have the Natural Born U.S. Citizens up to their chins in fodder. We have had quite enough. Each generation has a task. This generation’s task will be to RIGHT the ship that has been listing for nearly one hundred years. That ship is the U.S. Constitution. The Natural Born Citizens are awake to the water in the bilge. YOUR party, Mr. Obama, is the water in the bilge and we have our teacups ready to bale. No federal program is more sacred than the Constitution. It is Un-American and akin to treason to trample on the Constitution. It is time to get back to the basics of the U.S. Constitution. There is no need to prove you are a Natrual Born Citizen anymore. That time has passed. It is now IMPEACHMENT time for treasonous acts against the United States, the U.S. Constitution and the American People, and failure to adhere to the Presidential Oath of Office.