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| Lehman: Clueless Obama |
| 2010-01-08 |
| After watching President Obama's remarks on national security this afternoon, John Lehman, the secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a member of the 9/11 Commission, tells National Review Online that, “frankly, I'm pissed off.' “President Obama just doesn't get it,' says Lehman. “I don't think he has a clue. It's all pure spin. He's ignoring key issues and taking respectable professionals like John Brennan and turning them into hacks and shills. It's beyond contempt.' “The president has ignored the 9/11 Commission's report,' says Lehman. “This whole idea that we can fix things by jumping higher and faster is ridiculous. The fact is that the system worked just like we said it would work if the president failed to give the Director of National Intelligence the tools he needs: it's bloated, bureaucratic, layered, and stultified.' “President Obama continues to totally ignore one of the important thrusts of our 9/11 recommendations, which is that you have to approach counterterrorism as a multiagency intelligence issue, and not as a law-enforcement issue. He's made a lot of commission's members angry for dismissing our report and ignoring key recommendations.' Obama, he adds, has taken a “lawyer-like, politically-correct approach' to national security issues like terrorist watchlists and no-fly lists. “You got to blame the president for enforcing the politically-correct and legalistic policies that led to these failures.' |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #1 Bravo! Hopefully the scales are falling off. Oct 27, 2008 Younstown, OH. "YouÂ’re known by the company you keep," Lehman said several times. He later defended his mention of Wright, who once described Israel as a colonial power and used the phrase "goddamn America" in a sermon about the continued struggle facing blacks. "ItÂ’s an important issue," Lehman told JTA. "I donÂ’t see how someone could sit in a pew for 20 years and listen to that crap." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-08 10:52 |