Brennan: Officials 'didn't understand' intel

The article and statements by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, has been read and reread because his statements were so unbelievable to any novice that understands the intelligence community.

This sentence jumped out and tells us that Obama has appointed a lot of people to intelligence positions who don't have a clue about intelligence including Panetta who heads the CIA:

top intel officials simply didn't understand all the intelligence pointing to a possible terrorist attack

The Obama Administration Intelligence Community didn't understand all the intelligence? Why aren't people being fired if they don't understand what they are reading or is it a case they didn't bother to read the data? The lack of experience in this Administration is starting to stack up and it is scary.

In the Intelligence area you need experience, but did the Obama people move out the Bush people who had years of experience? We would like to know the answer because that is what it is beginning to look like. No seasoned intelligence office would miss the clues.

Guess the question arises as to whether we all feel safer now under Obama -- we would give even a bigger resoundinig NO after reading this article since we have members of the Intelligence Community who don't understand what they are reading.

Brennan: Officials 'didn't understand' intel

January 8, 2010

The Obama administration has repeatedly said the failure to connect intelligence reports that might have prevented the Christmas Day bombing attempt was not because spy agencies failed to share information.

Instead, John Brennan, assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security, said top intel officials simply didn't understand all the intelligence pointing to a possible terrorist attack, which came true when a Nigerian national tried to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb in his underwear.

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