Monday, January 11, 2010

Obama's havoc to the intel system

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President Obama blamed "the system" for failing to stop al Qaeda's Christmas Day bombing plot. The weakness with that excuse is that Mr. Obama fails to connect the dots between the systemic failure and his administration's year- long record of destroying the morale of the intelligence community... [snip]

There is an old saying in intelligence circles: Big operation, big risk; small operation, small risk; no operation, no risk.

The president's proposed "solution" to the failures of the intelligence system will reinforce a climate of mistrust in which it will be difficult to take the risks necessary to make the system work.

And next time we may not be so lucky...

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