USA's Chief Intelligence official said they have been tracking unrest in North Africa for years. "But we are not clairvoyant," said James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, at a House hearing this morning.
That is a wild understatement for a visually-challenged (I almost said blind) person. When talking about Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, he said that it was a non-religious civil movement. American ignorance of foreign languages and countries is legendary, but one would expect more from its chief intelligence official. He probably thinks that Al-Qaeda is the Saudi YMCA.
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The US intelligence services have not been worth a damn at least since they were eviscerated during the Carter administration. The "Church Hearings" revealed that the CIA did nasty stuff like enclose their balconies without planning permission and assassinate enemies of the US. This was not permissible under our new feminized worldview. Only after holding the proper court hearings in the presence of the NY Times could such things be permitted (and better still not at all). The NSA is very good at things like wiretapping but as far as human intelligence agents on the ground, we basically have none who are worthy of the name. That the Arabs (Mubarrak as late as yesterday) accuse the CIA of meddlling behind the scenes is a joke - they wouldn't know how to meddle anymore if our lives depended on it, which they do.
K
Enclose their balconies without building permits? It reveals a corrupt mindset, unfit for the lofty calling of spying and murdering.
One can only hope his job description includes disinformation.
Anon.
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