NSA job

[BrntOrngStmpeDe]

It seems incredible to me that this happens. How on earth do you get to a point where a guy that your team has publicly listed as a top three candidate turns down the job. Isn't there some guy in WH team that does a quick behind the scenes pow wow to make sure the guy your offering has an interest in a high profile job like this? If there isn't, there should be. This looks ridiculous.

And forget Patareus. I've heard him speak and I know his resume. I think he is a fabulous guy but you can't put him in charge of the NSA after the security mistake he made. It would send entirely the wrong signal to the whole intel community.

 

[Seattle Husker]

Something must have come up in the interview process that raised red flags for Harward. The "well-oiled machine" analogy spouted by Trump yesterday is reminiscent of Baghdad Bob when juxtaposed with the controversy of NSA role and other things.

I'm starting to think the problem may actually be in the vetting process. As much as I think Patreus is wicked smart and would be a good fit, I don't know how you get past his conviction for a security breach to put him in that role.

 

[Mr. Deez]

BOSDE,

It's entirely possible that the guy wanted the job but saw what happened with Flynn and changed his mind on a dime.

 

[Mr. Deez]

The idea of hiring Patraeus is absurd.

 

[NJlonghorn]

I heard on Fox News this morning that Harward wanted to bring in his own deputy, but Trump insisted on keeping Flynn's deputy, K.T. MacFarland (sp?).

 

[Seattle Husker]

I heard on Fox News this morning that Harward wanted to bring in his own deputy, but Trump insisted on keeping Flynn's deputy, K.T. MacFarland (sp?).

The Washington Post quote 3 different sources that each had a different reason Harward wouldn't take the job. Being able to have full control over his own staff was one of the reasons. Another was that he was skittish on leaving his cushy Sr. VP role at Lockheed.

 

[Joe Fan]

edit - prolly dropped this on wrong thread - sorry
will move

 

[Seattle Husker]

Part of what is going on here may be a direct result of dirty tricks by Obama. He, Lynch and Clapper somewhat quietly expanded the NSA’s ability to spy on regular Americans days before leaving office. Why do you suppose they did this, when they did it?

"In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.

The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.

The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch signed the new rules ......after the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., signed them ..... .
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/...tude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html

That's why Flynn was pushed out and Harward declined the job?

The attempt to point the finger at the Obama Admin for NSA roles challenges are nonsensical. Flynn lied to the FBI and Pence. That's a fact. Harward was offered and said "no thank you" to the Trump Admin. That's a fact. Neither of those things have anything to do with Clapper, Lynch or Yates. Look past the smokescreen.

 

[I35]

The "well-oiled machine" analogy spouted by Trump yesterday is reminiscent of Baghdad Bob when juxtaposed with the controversy of NSA role and other things.

Libs seem to talk more crazy by the passing day. I heard one say this Flynn is comparable to water gate. Even though there isn't a crime committed. SMH

 

[Seattle Husker]

Libs seem to talk more crazy by the passing day. I heard one say this Flynn is comparable to water gate. Even though there isn't a crime committed. SMH

Any Watergate comparison is pure hyperbole, just as Trump's claim of "a well-oiled machine" was. That's the world we live in now.