Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» If PET doesn't trust what the intelligence agencies tell him why pay them salaries? Why not fire them and save tons of money?
Because once the intelligence community figures out they're supposed to tell Der Pumpkinfuhrer what he wants to hear, they'll provide useful PR cover for the Pumpkin.
Down the road, Herr Pumpkinhead will be able to make ridiculous statements about geopolitics and say, "It's not just me, the intelligence community is saying the same thing."
This technique was perfected by the Darth Cheney/Boy Emperor regime.
General #1: Invadiing/occupying Iraq will take 500,000+ troops and a 10-year civilian nation-building committment. Bush Admin: Sorry, we want to do it with 150,000 troops and assume Iraq will just self-organize after we overthrow Saddam General #1: That's ridiculous, I resign.
General #2: Invadiing/occupying Iraq will take 500,000+ troops and a 10-year civilian nation-building committment. Bush Admin: Sorry, we want to do it with 150,000 troops and assume Iraq will just self-organize after we overthrow Saddam General #2: That's ridiculous, I resign.
General #3: Sure, we can invade/occupy Iraq with 150,000 troops. We'll be greeted as liberators. Bush Admin: You're hired! Bush Admin (to public): See, we can invade/occupy Iraq with 150k troops and we'll be greeted as liberators. General #3 said so!
Oy vey! AARRGGHH! So the Intelligence Community will just roll over and give the Russian version of the Manchurian Candidate(PET aka Donald J. hey hey hey) what he wants to hear? Swell. Hunky dorry. Dam *! I thought we could save big bucks and PET could use the savings for more golf courses or hotels. Mahalo for your thoughtful and thorough reply OS. We 're doomed aren't we? :(
I think OS's numbers are pretty good.. That means 2/3's of the intelligence community BELIEVE their job is to produce INTELLIGENCE.. 1/3 of 'em BELIEVE their job is to make the boss happy..
Oh. OK then. I didn't read it that way. I read it as hopeless. The good guys leave so how are they gonna affect anything? The dumbsh* guy stays. And we all know what happens when we are dealing with a dumbsh**! I guess 2/3 is better than nuthin'. Right? Thank you for your reply excon! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at December 10, 2016 11:27 AM MST
@excon -- I think you somewhat misunderstood my point.
It's not that 2/3rds of intelligence community is honest and 1/3 are butt-kisssers. It's that the community as a whole will learn Der Pumpkinfuhrer doesn't want to hear anything except what he wants to hear....and enough of them will value their careers over their self-respect to give The Pumpkin what he wants.
It was the same thing with Iraq. ALL of the generals knew the Iraq invasion/occupation plan (whiich the Pentagon had spent YEARS developing in case the scenario ever came up) called for 500,000+ troops and a 10-year reconstruction effort. But, after the first few told the administration that and were rebuffed, the others figured they'd better go along with the politically-driven alternate plan, because that's the plan that was going to be instituted, regardless of who was picked to institute it.
I suspect SOME intelligence community members will go public with their concerns, but much like few people remember the generals who said "It will take 10 years and a half-million troops" with respect to Iraq, I think the honest dissenting voices will be drowned out by the Washington Press Stenographer Corps, who will all dutifully report, "Trump said X and his intellgence advisers say they agree with him!" How has being honest and reporting what's really going on worked out for Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden?
This post was edited by OldSchoolTheSKOSlives at December 10, 2016 11:37 AM MST
Tillerson is PET's choice for Secretary of State OS. Putin loves it. CZAR Trump is so eager to please Putin. So the US is now gonna be a USSR satellite! Swell.
Because it would cost a ton of money to re hire them after Trump is out of office. And then it would take tons of more money to get the intelligence agencies back up to speed in what's happening around the World. Like if Trump stays in office 4-8 years and there are no intelligence agencies out there every day they could lose their connections that help them gather information. Cheers
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