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| Hayden On Obama: It's Hard To Get Intel Assessments Through To 'People Like That' |
| 2014-09-06 |
[BREITBART] Thursday on "Kilmeade and Friends," Ret. U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and NSA, told Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade that because President Barack ObamaMy friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... preferred to read his intelligence briefings instead of engaging with officials and asking questions like former President George W. Bush, it was not easy to get the assessments across to the current commander-in-chief. Hayden said, "People like me have to accommodate to people like that," adding "my old job is easier when you are face to face," but he said, "President B.O. absorbs information by reading and reflecting." "It was easier for the intel briefer," "when the individual engages," Hayden explained. Hayden said, "It is pretty clear in this case" we are dealing with "the phenomenon of the unpleasant fact." He explained that in Obama's case "you're there briefing a position, a flow, a thread, a development that is absolutely cutting across the grain of the world as the policymaker would like it to be, or he perceives it to be," he added "you're in essence telling this individual the world isn't as he believed it to be, and I think we had an awful lot of that going on." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Just hit him over the head with a heavy object, drag him to another room and let the adults decide things. Teh 0ne won't even notice after he wakes up. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-09-06 18:52 |
| #13 Stonehenge followed by the links. He's getting fully briefed in transit, and will no doubt drop into the NATO meeting if something important comes up. |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-09-06 17:08 |
| #12 LMAO, B! The scary part is, if you said these things to his face, he'd likely get all bashful and self-effacing. Utterly failing to recognize the withering sarcasm, or realize he is being brutally mocked and ridiculed by a person who leaves more brains behind after a trip to the toilet. I suspect Putin got all invadey once he realized this. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2014-09-06 15:26 |
| #11 It's hard to get Intel Assessments through to 'People Like That'! Use a sling shot. |
| Posted by: Sonny Glarong6820 2014-09-06 12:37 |
| #10 its doubtful he gets all the bad news bits I KNOW he doesn't get the bad news bits...the minion gets fired the second time he disturbs The One. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2014-09-06 11:40 |
#9  Neuroscientists the world over remain gobsmacked. His highly developed psychokinetic ability negates the requirement for formal briefings. Seventeen cleverly disguised towers constantly feed him important data. He drives his own golf cart. He is his own man. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-06 11:13 |
| #8 Obama was “noticeably absent” He was touring. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-09-06 10:51 |
| #7 If he doesn't take these briefings in person he can say "no one told me. I heard it on the news". President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday. Obama was “noticeably absent” from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-09-06 10:25 |
| #6 Is it just my subjective impression, that---whenever affirmative action is invoked on behalf of a group---the worst members of this group are the principal beneficiaries? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-06 09:48 |
| #5 I heard this morning he was getting intelligent briefings via his emails. Do the emails still have the IRS approved header "Erase before Opening"? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-06 09:40 |
| #4 I heard this morning he was getting intelligent briefings via his emails. Scary that there is a president who is so disengaged, insulated from reality--basically he is living in a narcissistic bubble. No wonder he had trouble making decisions. Although, it is doubtful that he would anyway if he had face-to-face meetings with the intelligence community. Worst president in our history. Is there anyone who was worse? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-06 09:35 |
| #3 I bet he doesn't read them. Some minion may but then its doubtful he gets all the bad news bits. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-09-06 09:16 |
| #2 He IS....the smartest man in the room. Stay thirsty, my friends. |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-09-06 08:19 |
#1  He's a master of fact assimilation, cortical remapping, and declarative memory. A virtual trap, his mind moves over the briefing book like a |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-06 04:35 |