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2010-05-21 Home Front: Politix

President Obama To Replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I heard Blair's resignation was requested and met with resistance. Brennan should go but this sounds like he may be the favored replacement! Just when I thought it couldn't get worse....

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-20 19:06|| 2010-05-20 19:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not thrilled with Blair, but I do wonder whether his failings are his own, or if he is just one more being thrown under the bus over Obama's failings.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-20 19:07|| 2010-05-20 19:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Thrown under the bus. He and 0bammy didn't see eye to eye at all.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-05-20 19:32|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-05-20 19:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Brennan should go but this sounds like he may be the favored replacement!

What a cluster fuck. I shouldn't be surprised if John "Bend over for islamic terrorism and maybe they will kill us last" Brennan is promoted. Blair was needed to lend some credibility to Candidate Obama's national security cred. Now the idiot is no longer useful and time to bring a member of the inner party to the forefront.

If hostile foreign agents seized control of the US government, just would they do differently than President Obama?

Posted by ed 2010-05-20 19:39|| 2010-05-20 19:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Blair wasn't a very good choice for DNI, but I share the concerns that his replacement will be worse, particularly if it's Brennan.

DNI is an impossible job: you have to get 16 different intel agencies, each with their own agendas, resources, personnel and turf, to cooperate. Succeed only 99% of the time and everyone will remember the time you failed.

My money on his replacement is Panetta, but if Panetta is as smart as he thinks he is, he'll say no.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-20 19:43|| 2010-05-20 19:43|| Front Page Top

#6 STATEMENT FROM DIRECTOR DENNIS C. BLAIR TO THE ODNI AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WORKFORCE
> May 20, 2010
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> It is with deep regret that I informed the President today that I will step down as Director of National Intelligence effective Friday, May 28th.
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> I have had no greater honor or pleasure than to lead the remarkably talented and patriotic men and women of the Intelligence Community.
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> Every day, you have worked tirelessly to provide intelligence support for two wars and to prevent an attack on our homeland.
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> You are true heroes, just like the members of the Armed Forces, firefighters, and police whose job it is to keep our nation safe.
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> Your work over the past 16 months has made the Intelligence Community more integrated, agile, and representative of American values. Keep it up I will be cheering for you.
>
> Dennis C. Blair

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-20 22:41|| 2010-05-20 22:41|| Front Page Top

#7 If hostile foreign agents seized control of the US government, just would they do differently than President Obama?

Good q. There are times I wake up and think, Is it over yet? Will our elected leaders finally begin to favor friends and punish foes, instead of v-v? Who is this fool in the White House, and how on earth did he get there, again? When will we be able to respect our country again?

2012 can't come fast enough. This little jack@ss is worse than Carter.

Posted by lex 2010-05-21 01:45|| 2010-05-21 01:45|| Front Page Top

#8 If hostile foreign agents seized control of the US government, just would they do differently than President Obama?

Not marry Michelle?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-21 02:35|| 2010-05-21 02:35|| Front Page Top

#9 fwiw, Admiral Blair was the fellow clueless enough to try to get Chas Freeman (a favorite of the Saudi and PRChina dictators and font of anti Israel agiprop) appointed chair of the Nat Intel Council.

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-21 07:00|| 2010-05-21 07:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Just a few words for the Admiral and all the other sychophantic, servile, self-serving, PC flag officers out there.

"The boot you lick is the boot that KICKS!"anon

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-21 07:11|| 2010-05-21 07:11|| Front Page Top

#11
Pete Hoekstra:

Right now, the Obama administrations national security apparatus is broken, dysfunctional and in disarray. Dennis Blair was the one person you could count on for rationality among Holder, Napolitano and Brennanand hes the one the president let go.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-05-21 10:51|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-05-21 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Smart money says the cynical political ploy would be to replace Blair w/a nominal Republican (Chuck Hagel) so that when the next attack succeeds the blame will be shifted.

That of course assumes that cynical politics trumps national security.

Posted by regular joe 2010-05-21 12:11|| 2010-05-21 12:11|| Front Page Top

#13
If hostile foreign agents seized control of the US government, just would they do differently than President Obama?

One gets the impression that has already happened!

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-21 12:40|| 2010-05-21 12:40|| Front Page Top

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