This is one of a couple of reasons I’ve been saying for years we need to bulldoze the agency and start over. The bloated domestic bureaucracy exists only so a bunch of dead wood can impress people at parties with where they collect their paycheck. Note I didn’t say with where they work as they don’t do any work for that money as far as I can tell. And as Frum indicates if they have to choose they’ll put the interests of the agency first to the detriment of the country’s. They are worse than useless; they’re a national security threat.

A lot of fact-checking will have to be done to substantiate the claims by Webb and Murphy. But from my own reporting, I have learned that no one runs afoul of senior CIA officials — or John Brennan — lightly or without peril. CIA officials angry at the Bush administration’s treatment of the agency in 2006 helped elevate the Valerie Plame affair into a national scandal and crippled much of the White House’s ability to conduct foreign policy. In the end, there was precious little evidence of any real security breach or wrongdoing beyond a perjury conviction of Scooter Libby, a top aide to Vice President Cheney.
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If true, much would be explained about why the Benghazi consulate was targeted and why the administration has been so anxious to avoid congressional and media scrutiny of the first assassination of a U.S. ambassador in over 30 years.

If Barry was really worried about it you know what would have worked better than a stupid joke about a drone strike? Not letting them go to the concert. But in all honesty those girls were as safe there as in their mother’s (fantastically toned!) arms given the personal protection detail and the Preezy knew it.

It’s just an example of the kind of stupid thing The Won says when he’s trying too hard to be cool. Not to mention irresponsible. It’s why I call him President Prom Queen. He thinks his job is to be belle of the ball. That’s why he says stupid things like that.

And goes to sleep and leaves the details about unimportant events like an attack on a US diplomatic mission to underlings. Tiger Beat had to get his beauty sleep so he could be the center of attention of an adoring crowd at a campaign event in Vegas. Where in another fit of stupidity he compared his campaign worketrs to the men who died in Benghaz. At least that wasn’t as consequential as the stupid joke about drones.

In a world where stock markets can fall hundreds of points if Bernanke says awrong word after a meeting of the Fed a responsible serious chief executive would know bettet than to make light about an issue that already has people inflamed in large parts of the world. A serious and responsible chief executive we do not have in the Prom Queen.

Is this still your idea of acceptable dark humor?
Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 2/8/2013 @ 3:26 pm

I don’t think I intended to mean that I approved of it, though I clearly see how that was understood.
And the fact these were comments in public and written ahead certainly speaks against it.

My main thought was that there are so many terrible things this person is responsible for, with Fast and Furious and Benghazi on the top, that bad jokes pale in comparison.

Just a word about Darna. It’s about 140 miles east of Benghazi and thus that much closer to the Egyptian border. It has always been radically Islamist and over the years has sent more than its fair share of young men abroad to wage jihad against Americans in Iraq and A-stan. The head of Ansar al Sharia, bin Qumu, has a home there and other Salafist groups are headquartered there too. They’re about one drone strike away from taking over the town as the drones have been overhead daily since the 9/11/13 attack, irritating the residents to no end who widely agreed with the AQ affiliates about establishing a sharia state and driving the US out of Muslim lands to begin with.

We’ll see if Barry and his foreign policy/nat’l security wrecking crew is stupid and/or malicious enough to play into the radical militias’ hands.

AQ and its affiliates are further along in Darna to taking over, but they’re making progress toward that goal across the country.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/02/communications_with.php

We’re on a path to simultaneously give them reasons to hate us but also reasons not to respect us. When Hillary! started issuing statements apologizing for that obscure video, including buying air time on Pakistani TV to do it she made a bad situation worse and put lives at stake just so Obama could downplay the 9/11/13 debacle before the election (add that to the list of why it still matters “at this point”).

As elissa observes this was a revenge attack. I already mentioned the drone flights over Darna (not strikes as I mistakenly said). The Libyans posted a threat to the Americans “diturbing the skies over Darna” on one of their militia social media sites over these flights that started in July.

Zawahiri put a 42 minute video telling the Libyans to take revenge on Americans for the drone strike that killed Abu Yahya al Libbi on TouTube 9 Sep. It was moved and shown on jihadi sites 10 Sep (and we’re supposed to believe those liars who said there wad no intel indicating an attack was imminent didn’t know about THAT video?). Now elissa gives us new info. Fact is while Obama is bragging about Libya as an example of his FP genius his ham handed strategy is on the verge of sending Libya the way of Mali. Toppling the Tripoli TNC government and putting the country in the hands of AQ and its allies.