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2017-01-12 Home Front: Politix

Trump conducts sting operation to ensnare intelligence briefers -- it works, of course

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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 CIA needs to be cleaned up. Trump does HAVE that power. First you replace the appointees and the Leadership. If they resist, have them arrested. Then use your own appointees to follow the biased smell wherever it leads. The Intel will be paralyzed, of course. That is the price. But the Price will be higher if Intel is rogue...thy only EXIST to serve the Executive. They answer to him.
If they are not Loyal and loyal above reproach...then they NEED to be replaced and removed. Do it.

ALL of the Intel community needs to serve the Executive. They need to completely comprehend the fact, they are not their own boss. They work for the Executive. If they refuse that responsibility.... what is the Russian word for a small broom and a dog's skull dangling from the saddle?

Posted by Angeash Choling3903 2017-01-12 07:39|| 2017-01-12 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes. How much unnecessary sorrow might this whole country have suffered after 9/11 if Bush had not been relying on Clinton holdovers in the intel community?

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-01-12 08:47|| 2017-01-12 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 How much less unnecessary sorrow, I meant to say.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-01-12 08:48|| 2017-01-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Reminds me of Breaking Bad...'He's smarter than you, he's Luckier than you, and whatever it is that you think is going to happen, the exact opposite is what's going to happen'. Poor socialists.

Posted by Cesare 2017-01-12 10:50|| 2017-01-12 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 All of that slam dunk stuff was a political ploy to make Georgie look bad and give the left ammo to use on him in the next election.

Too bad they didn't understand the nature of the enemy or the nature of the average American.

They also forgot it is better to be feared than loved and that postponing conflict for the sake of peace only postpones it to the advantage of your adversary.

More people in intel and every Congressman and Senator and every President should be made to read the Prince.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-12 11:20|| 2017-01-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't get cocky. These are formidable opponents. Do not underestimate the difficulty in rooting them out. Trump's stunt here is an example of how clever he is, and how he will beat them. But it will take ruthless purges after each test, and ten more tests to clean the stables.

Posted by rammer 2017-01-12 22:30|| 2017-01-12 22:30|| Front Page Top

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