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2018-07-20 Home Front: Politix
Mercer: Doubting the Intelligence of the 'Intelligence Community'
[WND] Peter Strzok, the disgraced and disgraceful Federal Bureau of Investigation official, is the very definition of a slimy swamp creature. Strzok twitched, grimaced and ranted his way to infamy during a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, on July 12.

In no way had he failed to discharge his professional unbiased obligation to the public, asserted Strzok. He had merely expressed the hope that "the American population would not elect somebody demonstrating such horrible, disgusting behavior."

But we did not elect YOU, Mr. Strzok. We elected Mr. Trump.

Strzok is the youthful face of the venerated "Intelligence Community," itself part of the sprawling political machine that makes up the D.C. comitatus, now writhing like a fire-breathing mythical monster against President Donald Trump.

Smug, self-satisfied, cheating creature that he is, Strzok can’t take responsibility for his own misconduct and blames ... Russia for dividing America. In the largely progressive bureau, moreover, Agent Strzok is neither underling nor outlier, for that matter.

He’s an overlord, having risen "to become the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, the second-highest position in that division."

As Ann Coulter observed, the FBI is not the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover.

Neither is the Intelligence Community Philip Haney’s IC any longer.

Haney was a heroic, soft-spoken, demure employee at the Department of Homeland Security. Agents like him are often fired if they don’t get with the program. He didn’t.

Haney’s method and the authentic intelligence he mined and developed might have stopped the likes of the San Bernardino mass murderers and many others. Instead, his higher-ups in the "Intelligence Community" made Haney and his data disappear.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-20 06:34|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 I don't doubt their intelligence. I doubt their reasonability and judgement. I take their malice for granted.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-07-20 07:20||   2018-07-20 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Intelligence? You mean stuff like predicting the collapse of the soviet union? Or 9/11, or rise of ISIS? Or Russian response to USA engineered Ukrainian coup?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-20 08:05||   2018-07-20 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Grog, any chance ya'll could outsource Mossad to us? We'd like an intel agency that you know....works.
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-07-20 09:29||   2018-07-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Not so much about whether it works as it is for whom it works.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-20 10:23||   2018-07-20 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Before the USA can have intel agencies that work, it will have to get rid of the ones that work against itself.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-20 14:06||   2018-07-20 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure we can outsource that problem to Mossad too.:p
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-07-20 14:16||   2018-07-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't doubt the intelligence, it's the stupidity that I doubt.
Posted by gorb 2018-07-20 19:59||   2018-07-20 19:59|| Front Page Top

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