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2020-03-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
WAPO and Intelligence Community - 'We told you so'
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-21 12:52|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 "Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were

And they call kept silent and cleared their financial portfolios.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-21 12:59||   2020-03-21 12:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Somehow, I have trouble believing this.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 13:03||   2020-03-21 13:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I have no trouble believing the intel community is claiming this.
Posted by Matt 2020-03-21 13:07||   2020-03-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this the story they're shopping now?
Let's just ignore all those totalitarian TrumpHitler slurs when he did take action.

And to be fair to the IC, while they didn't predict the collapse of the fUSSR, they did track it after it happened.
Posted by SteveS 2020-03-21 13:13||   2020-03-21 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 and if Trump had done anything the exact same people would be calling him a racist xenophobe.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-21 13:14||   2020-03-21 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, sure. They probably had all scenarios covered in their brief so whatever happened they could claim that they predicted it.

President Truman once complained about trained economists: “Whenever I ask their opinion, they say on the one hand, so-and-so; but on the other hand, so-and-so, On the one hand, — but on the other hand. I would like to meet an economist with one hand!“
Posted by magpie 2020-03-21 13:22||   2020-03-21 13:22|| Front Page Top

#7 President Trump was doing all sorts of things, though the Washington Post and certain members of the intelligence community choose to forget. All that travel from affected countries shut down despite the outcry, not to mention the planning that has gone on since 2018 and the Johns Hopkins pandemic gaming exercise that was put on last autumn.

As for the lawmakers not grappling, thanks to the Democrats our federal lawmakers were shut up at close quarters in the Senate for the impeachment farce during the critical period — how many will fall ill because of that particular vicious bit of pointless, time-sucking idiocy?

It should be noted at this point that as a group the Democratic congresscritters and senators are older and in worse health than their Republican counterparts. This should worry those looking further than November.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-21 13:34||   2020-03-21 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm still not convinced the economic disruption is worth it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-21 14:10||   2020-03-21 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Or, should I say, not convinced it's worth the economic disruption.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-21 14:11||   2020-03-21 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Don't think of it as economic disruption. Think of it as an opportunity to reshuffle the cards.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 14:14||   2020-03-21 14:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Just hope I don't end up with the two of clubs.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-21 15:23||   2020-03-21 15:23|| Front Page Top

#12 H/T InstiProf

reading the key graph shows it to be based on one anonymous source, plus the opinions of anonymous “others:”
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-21 15:39||   2020-03-21 15:39|| Front Page Top

#13 This relates directly to the art of the intel briefing. The part where you may well have predicted some event unfolding at the moment. But you also gave so many other possibilities and variables that whatever useful information conveyed was reduced to the appearance of mere ass covering.
Posted by Cesare 2020-03-21 15:47||   2020-03-21 15:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Otherwise known as fortune telling, Cesare.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 15:54||   2020-03-21 15:54|| Front Page Top

#15 The US "Intelligence" Community is too busy trying to cover its ass, protect the deep state, and get rid of Trump, to actually do their job.

Time to disband all of those agencies, and rebuild them in a much more efficient, less domestically focused, and accountable fashion.
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-03-21 19:30||   2020-03-21 19:30|| Front Page Top

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