What Joe had to do with intelligence tradecraft I haven't quite figured out. Same with Gregory. The event is a who's who of who's huge in the intelligence biz. McConnell. Hayden. And more. I entertained going to the 2008 event in nearby Nashville.
"Spies For Hire" author Tim Shorrock emailed me before the event last year to express puzzlement that the open-to-the-press event doesn't get much Mainstream Media ink.
But Obama - only in the Senate two years, and on the COVER of the current NGA magazine for God's sake! - hasn't a clue and steps on his dick in front of God and everyone by focusing attention on space spies. He takes NBC's Brian Williams (who also has no idea) to his favorite burger hangout Five Guys.
Obama collars a government grunt who works for NGA in Herndon, VA near Dulles. Maybe Walter's cover as a burger flipper's just been blown by the president.
Politico's Ben Smith's transcript:
Obama: What do you do Walter?
Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that?
Walter: About six years.
Obama: Yea?
Walter: Yes.
Obama: You like it?
Walter: I do, keeps me...
Obama: So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial...uh...
Walter: Uh, we work with, uh, satellite imagery...
Obama: Right--
Walter: [unintelligible] ...support systems, so...
Obama: Sounds like good work.
Walter: Enjoy the weekend.
Obama: Appreciate it.
Space is the final frontier for spying. Obama may not have a clue. Probably doesn't even know what the NRO is. But his lieutenants do and they're continuing on the Bush/Cheney path.
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If this was President Bush, the Media would have a field day over this and Queef Olberdouche would go on a 30 minute rant about it...
ReplyDeleteNo shit, Sherlock! I am stunned that Obama had no idea about the NGA, GEOINT, USGIF - especially when his defense department is following the Bush/Cheney lead in geospatial intelligence tradecraft...,
ReplyDeleteIt proves that Obama is another Jimmy Carter...
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can get his half brother from Africa up here to piss on a building. These Democrats are loaded with the crazy brothers: Jimmy and Billy, Bill and Roger, John, Robert and Teddy. The brothers are the crazy ones, let's hope.
ReplyDeleteOh.. Barack is no Carter. Carter actually believed in half the bullshit that he did, bless his naive heart.
ReplyDeleteBarack is the quintessential Oz. He has filled the sheeple with the material they so pine for at a rate that rivals infomercials, all the while maintaining the national security infrastructure that Bush built.
He prays nightly that if we get hit again, it will be within the 3.5 year window that allows him to continue to blame his predecessor.
Slick Willie has nothing on this man and his marionette followers are only too happy that we can all now be friends.
Obama doesn't pronouce nuclear like Carter: Nu-KEE-yer. Annoying SOB.
ReplyDeleteCarter had a job before hitting the White House, Physisist and peanut farmer. So what were Obama's credentials community organizer? Wnder what he actually wrote on his IRS tax form? Carter is still above Obama but both will be at the bottom of the list for what they accomplished in office that helped ALL of us.
ReplyDeleteImagine Barry's befuddlement had he run into someone who said "er, No Such Agency..."
ReplyDeleteYeah, he wouldn't have a clue, Rogue Male!
ReplyDeleteif this a hole were not obama they would have been dissing has ass big time. the guy on the fryline has a bigger clue than obammy.
ReplyDeleteThe O ass is procted for how long no one knows?
ReplyDeleteThe cosmic joke in all of this is that Barry would never have been considered for a job in anyone else's administration, save perhaps as HUD Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Mau-Mauing Predominately White Municipalities.
ReplyDeleteGreat line in the comments to Ben Smith's Politico post:
My gosh, he can't even order lunch without a teleprompter.
Posted By: Mike | May 29, 2009 at 08:02 PM
More evidence that Barry isn't quite up to speed on that whole intelligence-security-whatever thing...
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