justfinethanks on November 13, 2008 at 7:15 PM

What’s this, your liberal passive-aggressive way to get right wingers at Hot Air to agree that W’s tenure has been a disaster? Let’s rephrase it:

This is astounding. Was there any American in 2002 who believed that the U.S. would not be hit by a majopt terrorist attack all the way through 2008?

As far as our war effort benefiting fron the continued existence of UBL, lt’s not forget that al Quaeda needs to prop up Bernie as well, exploiting the perception of him getting divine protection so to keep their movement afloat. Nothing says this better than the periodic cobbled video of UBL released straegically to keep al Quaeda leadership current and relevant to those who would join and follow.

Not at the time, no. However, after seeing reports come out over the years and all the efforts within our own agencies to undermine the POTUS it becomes less surprising.

I still think the CIA needs to be gutted and restructured, it is a mere shadow if it’s former self.

It ever fully recovered from the Church Hearings, and any progress made in the 80s and early 90s was undone by Billy Jeff.

One of my biggest gripes with Bush was his lack of cleaning house at the CIA, State Department, etc… I don’t think it’s going to get any better now.

reaganaut on November 14, 2008 at 8:26 AM

The CIA hasn’t done its job for years. They didn’t see 9/11 coming, they blew it with the WMD’s in Iraq, and Valerie Plame spent two years undermining the Bush Administration while she paraded around in Vanity Fair. It will probably continue its downhill spiral under Obama.

If a Republican is elected President in 2012, it will be time for a full-scale overhaul and witch hunt.

The radicals of the 60s said it took two people on the inside to support one outside, and eventually you run out of them, so I think his time has just about run out.

The radicals of the 60s will soon have one inside…the White House. The others will come crawling out of the shadows like an army of cockroaches ready to wreak havoc.

He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack “that would have rivaled the destruction of 9/11.” …

I’ll wait to hear all the details in the next New York Times Sunday edition.

Of course, most US merchant accounts could screen for that. Just not the ultra-technological Team Obama.

Fire in the minds of men

Was there any American in 2002 who believed that OBL would be alive six years later?

Not at the time, no. However, after seeing reports come out over the years and all the efforts within our own agencies to undermine the POTUS it becomes less surprising.

I still think the CIA needs to be gutted and restructured, it is a mere shadow if it’s former self.

It ever fully recovered from the Church Hearings, and any progress made in the 80s and early 90s was undone by Billy Jeff.

One of my biggest gripes with Bush was his lack of cleaning house at the CIA, State Department, etc… I don’t think it’s going to get any better now.

The protocol when a new president is elected is that everyone submits their resignation.

Some resignations are accepted and some are not accepted.

slp on November 13, 2008 at 11:40 PM

‘cringing’

For all we know, Obama could have been dead for years. I think that is more likely than the sipping mint juleps thing. After all OBL does not drink.

Just One Minute wonders: Here’s a gloom-inducer – as of Election Eve in 2004 it became obvious that Bush would get a second term and we would elect a new President in November 2008. That gave Al Qaeda (and anyone else who likes long lead times) four y…

From Whom?

OBL is going to come in from the cold, or somebody’s going to squeal. I just hope it happens on W’s watch–he deserves the catch.

OBL is dead and has been for 14 months. You heard it first here. He died from complications in September, 2007.

Jdripper on November 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM

Yeah, from the complications of a fuel-air bomb or a bunker buster.

I’d expect Hayden to be asked to resign within a short period after the inauguration. Who will they tap to replace him?

Werner Klemperer, he’s the only person that could replace Hayden.