Every President, from John Adams, up to President Bush. When they take office, recieves the coat tails of the previous Pres. And as we know, throughout history some Presdients centered more on the domestic agenda. WHile others concentrate due to issues in the world, foreign affairs more.
All this talk of that President CLinton, is our past Pres. and he is now out of office. And he does not amtter anymore is a bunch of complete hogwash. For the mess the intelligence community is in today, this very day, is all caused from the previous administartion. And Geroge Bush just inheirted it all.
Remember in the 90’s, the saying, “It is the economy stupid.” Well that is what President Clinton centered on. The domestic agenda. Which as we all know the economy grew by leaps and bounds, under CLinton. It was like the Roaring 20’s all over again. Which was truly wonderful. But what did suffer tremendously was our intelligence. THe best way to describe the CLinton yrs. in regards to intelligence is the following. By a quote from his frist CIA director, (whom CLinton ONLY met twice to a face-to-face meeting. And was never consulted. Never felt like a close confident of Pres. CLinton Or called upon. ), James Woolsey. Woolsely said, “The focus of the admin. was the domestic agenda; Hillary’s health care reform, the econ., taxes, NAFTA, and the budget. These were the priorities. Not foreign policy. The COld War was finally over and the Defense Dept and intelligence communities were taking budget cuts to refllect its priorities.”
And this quote by Woosely. “The problem was, the entire nation was being led to a false sense of ease when what was needed was strong leadership to meet the developing crisis of terrorism. The country wanted a beach party after the Berlin Wall fell, and so did CLinton. …” Again…Bush did NOT create this mess of the CIA and FBI, he inherited it.
Ok…let us move on till his second CIA director, John Deutsch. Deutsch goes and pushes the CIA into a pol. correct mold. Everyone had to submit to AIDS testing, and sensitivity training. And quotas were placed on psoitions, which insured a wide diversity of groups would be represent the American people.
So this now meant. People who were not qualified for positions were given them. Talented people were no longer rewarded. Competent talented people were pushed out of he agency. Dissidents who worked for so many yrs. Were now gone. Thomas Powers, form the NYT Review of Books, wrote this, “The exodus of competent agents from the Directorate of Operations caused the assignment of station chiefs to particular coun. to become even more irritational and dangerous to gathering real intelligence. In one case Nora Slatkin, Deutch’s exec. director, chose a station chief for Beijing, who was unable to speak or understand Chinese.
Or like in the CIA the National Security Agency only had 1 single Pashto speaker who intercepred transcripts and comm. from the Pak. Intelligence agency.” According to a former CIA operative, Tenet’s breifer a desk anaylyst who didn’t speak Arabic, became chief of station in Saudi Arabia.
Then in 1995, as one Defense Dept source said, “From the mid 1990’s the CLinton admin capped the decimination of the US intelligence with a human rights scrub that prevented the CIA from recruiting asests with a tainted past.” And this…The CLinton admin now gave it top priority to the intelligence comm. to collect economic threats, not national security ones."
“This now made it absolutely impossible
to have sources who maybe terorists, criminals, or other assests in a position to provide valuable verifiable info that could enhance national sec. interests.”
So now he leaves, (admist huge scandal, and whom Clinton pardoned), and we now have Tenet., in 1997 And he just tightened the screws even more to pol. correctness. He even named a special assistant for diversity plans and programs. Also a Directorate Diversity Office in every imp section of the agency, and an agency Diversity Council to oversee programs. Like one CIa operative said, “Instead of gathering intelligence, we would do bonding sessions like hiking and rapelling togehter.” At one pt in the mid to late 1990’s, there were 0 Arab press assets. No assets in the S tier of the former Soviet Union, no agents in easern Europe. During the Clinton years thhese agencies were shut down. AND the CIA to this very day, is incapable of running operations in most of these countries today."
And this is the Intelligence comm that Bush inherited. And this is why everyone is so critical of the intelligence comm. Did Bush create this mess? No he did not. THis all started under Clinton admin. This is where all the intelligence failures came about. Have everything been fixed by Bush? It has improved, but it not all has been fixed. This is why the failures have occured with the yes Iraq had WMD at the time, no they did not.
Was all from the past admin. policies and views of the intelligence comm.
Joe