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Great idea. Get politics out of the intelligence business

doogie
doogie Member Posts: 15,072
I knew Trump would find a work around that will restore confidence the intelligence he’s been getting.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies/
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    I knew Trump would find a work around that will restore confidence the intelligence he’s been getting.

    https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies/

    Engrish please.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    You too dumb to understand, again?
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,763 Standard Supporter
    I'll translate: Trump white house weighing plans for private spies to counter Obama plants.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Let me think about it.

    No.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Sledog said:

    I'll translate: Trump white house weighing plans for private spies to counter Obama plants.

    It's almost like you didn't read the article. Just the headline.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072

    Let me think about it.

    No.

    Pretty clear why you want Obama spies to remain, fucking things up but, the President needs accurate actionable intelligence. If Government workers can't function appropriately and/or effectively, they must be replaced by an intelligence organization who will.

    Besides, think of all the Pensions and Health care costs we'll be saving!
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    doogie said:

    Let me think about it.

    No.

    Pretty clear why you want Obama spies to remain, fucking things up but, the President needs accurate actionable intelligence. If Government workers can't function appropriately and/or effectively, they must be replaced by an intelligence organization who will.

    Besides, think of all the Pensions and Health care costs we'll be saving!
    From that article. You support this? Smells of dictatorship to me.

    “Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the proposals, in describing White House discussions. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books,” this person said, meaning the intelligence collected would not be shared with the rest of the CIA or the larger intelligence community. “The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly.”
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    edited December 2017
    I don't see any downside to politicizing the nation's national security infrastructure.

    Know who else had a problem with his spy agency?

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,884 Founders Club
    And Godwin is in!
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    Unfortunately Trump and Trumpism are adoptinng tactics and rationales straight from the Fascist playbook:

    Umberto Eco sez-

    "Disagreement Is Treason" – Fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.

    "Fear of Difference", which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants.

    "Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class", fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups.

    "Obsession with a Plot" and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society (such as the German elite's 'fear' of the 1930s Jewish populace's businesses and well-doings; see also anti-Semitism). See also Pat Robertson's book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession.

    Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,884 Founders Club
    Sure they are. Sure they are
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,884 Founders Club
    Reagan is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Trump is a Nazi

    Echo?
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    edited December 2017

    Reagan is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Trump is a Nazi

    Echo?


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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    pawz said:

    AZDuck said:

    Unfortunately Trump and Trumpism are adoptinng tactics and rationales straight from the Fascist playbook:

    Ironically enough, I'm reading The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich. (Hitler is on the cusp of heading into Austria) I find far more similarities with how the left does business than anything Trump is doing.

    I know that doesn't fit your narrative, but it's true.
    You're right, it doesn't. But I'd be interested to read your thoughts and analysis
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,462 Founders Club
    AZDuck said:

    pawz said:

    AZDuck said:

    Unfortunately Trump and Trumpism are adoptinng tactics and rationales straight from the Fascist playbook:

    Ironically enough, I'm reading The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich. (Hitler is on the cusp of heading into Austria) I find far more similarities with how the left does business than anything Trump is doing.

    I know that doesn't fit your narrative, but it's true.
    You're right, it doesn't. But I'd be interested to read your thoughts and analysis
    I thought about doing a book report for the Bored, but that takes a lot of fucking time.

    We'll see. Maybe.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    pawz said:

    AZDuck said:

    pawz said:

    AZDuck said:

    Unfortunately Trump and Trumpism are adoptinng tactics and rationales straight from the Fascist playbook:

    Ironically enough, I'm reading The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich. (Hitler is on the cusp of heading into Austria) I find far more similarities with how the left does business than anything Trump is doing.

    I know that doesn't fit your narrative, but it's true.
    You're right, it doesn't. But I'd be interested to read your thoughts and analysis
    I thought about doing a book report for the Bored, but that takes a lot of fucking time.

    We'll see. Maybe.
    thesis and bullet points?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,884 Founders Club
    AZDuck said:

    Reagan is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Trump is a Nazi

    Echo?


    image


    image
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381

    AZDuck said:

    Reagan is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Bush is a Nazi

    Trump is a Nazi

    Echo?


    image


    image
    Eco again:

    "Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero", which leads to the embrace of a cult of death."The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death."
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,884 Founders Club
    edited December 2017
    I'm the last person anxious to die

    Geeze
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,763 Standard Supporter
    The prior administration has planted committed supporters in important posts that were instructed to spy, sabotage and disrupt the incoming administrations agenda. Just look at the Mueller team....
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    Sledog said:

    The prior administration has planted committed supporters in important posts that were instructed to spy, sabotage and disrupt the incoming administrations agenda. Just look at the Mueller team....

    link?
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    Bush Sr tried that with @AZduck.


    Didn't work.


    TYFYS though.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    I always chuckle at troomps. Who think Obama is a communist. But support Trump setting up his own spy organization with accountability only to him.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,763 Standard Supporter
    Hondo I see you've still never read Obozo's own books. But then when you're a commie too you wouldn't want to out your boy.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    I wanna know about these deep state senior civil service moles that were planted with the idea of popping up when/if Donald Trump was elected President.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    I want to know why people feel POTUS doesn't need uncompromised, tImely accurate intelligence.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    He gets that already, from the same professionals who gave it to Obummer, Bush2, Clinton, Bush1, Reagan, etc. etc. etc. back to the days of the OSS.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    is this a bot?