Decapitation
(acronyms at the bottom)
Okay! Richard Grenell is the new acting DNI. Why is he the acting one? Because he wouldn't get confirmed. He was close on approval for Ambassador to Germany, and you're going to tap a guy with zero intel work and his diplomatic work consists of being ambassador and pissing off members of the host nation to the point he's hovering about the edge of the warning track to get PiNGed. Just like at Wrigley, a stiff breeze either keeps the ball in, or sends it onto Waveland, Grenell is a decent gust from landing in the bleachers.
So maybe this is a way to keep him in government after the Germans kick him out for goosestepping, but that doesn't sound like a good reason to give him not a plum, but a live grenade, so why would Hair Furor hand it to this guy? I mean aside from him being a convert to the Orange. How about, he has asked for the CIA files about the Russians and the election and he can either get all of the people who worked them RIFed out, fired, or even burned.
That last one stands out, and damn well should, burned. Everyone who has watched a Mission Impossible movie knows what getting burned means. It means you get retired (Valerie Plame) or you get killed (William Buckley), and those are OUR guys. Those aren't the guys they got info from, they're the ones working the contacts like an operator is supposed to.
The guys they were getting their info from? They're gone, never trusting us because their handler just got tossed. Or gone, never hearing from us again after their handler got tossed. Or dead, because their handler got tossed and their government had no idea the guy they went fishing with worked for the CIA.
If anything SQUEAKS from Grenell/Patel (Patel is Grenell's new right hand, sent to him via Devin "I'm suing a cow" Nunes), then we know that scenario just went into play. And this is something I 100% expect. Grenell is going to use the job to get rid of the "disloyal people." Either himself or by sending names over to the White House. They will decapitate our ability to obtain and process information in any area where someone has done something to upset, or say something that Trump doesn't like.
They are actively weakening the security of the United States to further Trump's personal agenda.
Acronyms!
DNI - Director of National Intelligence, the job was specifically created to deal with things like inter-agency fights (CIA vs FBI vs ATF vs NSA vs ETC) after 9-11. The CIA had pieces and the FBI had pieces, this position and surrounding Office (ODNI) were created to put those kinds of things together and hopefully stop the next attack.
PiNGed - Persona Non Grata-ed. Told by the host country, "We don't accept you as the Ambassador, or member of their staff at the embassy, get the hell out of our country." It isn't common. After the 2016 election and the Russian interference, Obama shut down two Russian missions, ejecting their staffs. I'm not sure when the last time before that we did it, and ejecting the Ambassador specifically is a doozy.
RIFed - Reduction In Force. Think government layoffs and you've got it in one.
Okay! Richard Grenell is the new acting DNI. Why is he the acting one? Because he wouldn't get confirmed. He was close on approval for Ambassador to Germany, and you're going to tap a guy with zero intel work and his diplomatic work consists of being ambassador and pissing off members of the host nation to the point he's hovering about the edge of the warning track to get PiNGed. Just like at Wrigley, a stiff breeze either keeps the ball in, or sends it onto Waveland, Grenell is a decent gust from landing in the bleachers.
So maybe this is a way to keep him in government after the Germans kick him out for goosestepping, but that doesn't sound like a good reason to give him not a plum, but a live grenade, so why would Hair Furor hand it to this guy? I mean aside from him being a convert to the Orange. How about, he has asked for the CIA files about the Russians and the election and he can either get all of the people who worked them RIFed out, fired, or even burned.
That last one stands out, and damn well should, burned. Everyone who has watched a Mission Impossible movie knows what getting burned means. It means you get retired (Valerie Plame) or you get killed (William Buckley), and those are OUR guys. Those aren't the guys they got info from, they're the ones working the contacts like an operator is supposed to.
The guys they were getting their info from? They're gone, never trusting us because their handler just got tossed. Or gone, never hearing from us again after their handler got tossed. Or dead, because their handler got tossed and their government had no idea the guy they went fishing with worked for the CIA.
If anything SQUEAKS from Grenell/Patel (Patel is Grenell's new right hand, sent to him via Devin "I'm suing a cow" Nunes), then we know that scenario just went into play. And this is something I 100% expect. Grenell is going to use the job to get rid of the "disloyal people." Either himself or by sending names over to the White House. They will decapitate our ability to obtain and process information in any area where someone has done something to upset, or say something that Trump doesn't like.
They are actively weakening the security of the United States to further Trump's personal agenda.
Acronyms!
DNI - Director of National Intelligence, the job was specifically created to deal with things like inter-agency fights (CIA vs FBI vs ATF vs NSA vs ETC) after 9-11. The CIA had pieces and the FBI had pieces, this position and surrounding Office (ODNI) were created to put those kinds of things together and hopefully stop the next attack.
PiNGed - Persona Non Grata-ed. Told by the host country, "We don't accept you as the Ambassador, or member of their staff at the embassy, get the hell out of our country." It isn't common. After the 2016 election and the Russian interference, Obama shut down two Russian missions, ejecting their staffs. I'm not sure when the last time before that we did it, and ejecting the Ambassador specifically is a doozy.
RIFed - Reduction In Force. Think government layoffs and you've got it in one.
posted by Mike N | 3:26 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home