{"id":31237,"date":"2011-02-14T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/obamas-scaled-down-intelligence-services-brings-two-major-national-security-flubs-in-two-days\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:50:45","slug":"obamas-scaled-down-intelligence-services-brings-two-major-national-security-flubs-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/obamas-scaled-down-intelligence-services-brings-two-major-national-security-flubs-in-two-days.php","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s scaled-down Intelligence Services brings Two major National Security flubs in Two Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Eric Dondero <\/p>

Many in the non-interventionist and weak on defense wings of the libertarian movement like to call for a scaling down of the CIA and even abolishment. <\/p>

Anarcho-libertarian Jacob Hornberger, at FFF<\/a>:<\/p>

How about just abolishing the CIA... Not only are the CIA and the military the source of America’s foreign-policy woes, not only are their actions subjecting Americans to a perpetual threat of terrorist blowback, not only are they bankrupting our country financially with their ever-growing expenditures, not only have they shamed our country with their torture, but they also just happen to pose the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people.<\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/a>Well, we now have a pretty good idea as to what such a policy of abolishing Intelligence Services would look like.<\/p>

Obama's scaled-down Intelligence services and greatly reduced emphasis on National Security, has just given us two huge foreign policy blunders in two days. <\/p>

From the NY Times<\/a> \"Obama Faces a Stark Choice on Mubarak\":<\/p>

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, testified before the House of Representatives on Thursday morning that there was a “strong likelihood” that Mr. Mubarak would step down by the end of the day. <\/p>

<\/a>American officials said Mr. Panetta was basing his statement not on secret intelligence but on media broadcasts, which began circulating before he sat down before the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>

And then there's this as reported by Jake Tapper, ABC News<\/a>:<\/p>

The director of the Office of National Intelligence James Clapper today told a House Intelligence Committee hearing that the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood – which seeks Egypt to become an Islamic state ruled by sharia law – is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

A CIA director who gets his intelligence from watching Katie Couric on CBS and CNN's Anderson Cooper, and a director of of National Intelligence who compares the Radical Islamic terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood to the Rotarians and Lions Club. <\/p>

With Obama administration officials, you're seeing the face of cutting back on National Security and Intelligence Services.<\/p>

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