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Did US Intelligence Drop the Ball in Predicting Egyptian Unrest?

On Friday, President Barack Obama scolded National Intelligence Director James Clapper, saying he was “disappointed with the intelligence community” for not predicting unrest in Tunisia that has spread to Egypt and other Arab countries in the region, the Associated Press reported.

An Obama administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the AP that the White House received “little warning” before riots began to break out in Egypt.

The criticism from the White House comes as Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., demanded to know the details of when Obama was briefed about the unfolding crises. “These events should not have come upon us with the surprise that they did,” Feinstein told the AP. “There should have been much more warning.”

“Was someone looking at what was going on the Internet?” she asked, referring to protesters’ use of social media outlets to organize demonstrations.

The criticism for the intelligence community from the White House and Capitol Hill just one day after the CIA’s associate deputy director testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that U.S. intelligence agencies warned President Obama last year that Egyptian instability threatened the rule of Hosni Mubarak.

“We have warned of instability,” Stephanie O’Sullivan told the committee. “We didn’t know what the triggering mechanism would be for that. And that happened at the end of the last year.” Intelligence reports about protests in Tunisia began in mid-December, she added.

Also during the hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked O’Sullivan specifically about how and when Obama was briefed on Egypt. “I am interested in when the president was told how serious this was,” he said. “This goes to the function of intelligence. … I want to get a general sense of when you told the president we were faced with something that was as serious as what we have seen in recent days.”

“The events in Egypt are rapidly unfolding and the intelligence community is working flat out to track them on the ground,” O’Sullivan responded. “But the minute things started earlier on in Tunisia, the intelligence community started looking at the long-term strategic impacts.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Friday downplayed the back-and-forth finger-pointing. “The president expects that, in any case, that he will be provided with relevant, timely and accurate intelligence assessments and that‘s exactly what’s been done throughout this crisis.”

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  • roxee
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:50pm

    The Main Scream Media is not showing the unrest world wide..this is just not happening in North Africa. Europe, is protesting also,and it’s not just kids about tuition hikes. Egpytians woke up to what is going on there (Europe) and just stepped out to have their say about the their treament.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:58pm

      You know that Alex Jones is even more of a fraud than Beck.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:40pm

    Why does everyone always think that our current leadership doesn‘t understand what’s going on?

    Of course they know, and it’s okay with them. It’s just another step forward to what they want.

    Wow, look at the big elephant in the room!

    Heck people, that’s no elephant, it’s a big fluffy bunny. Nothing to see here……………………….

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  • KL
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:39pm

    I guess it’s ok to be disappointed in US Intel if you are Obama, but it was not ok for president Bush to be let down by the same agency.

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 9:23am

      WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!

      I don’t know who knew when, but it’s a sight above hypocritical to spend 8 years accusing your predecessor while…. I stand corrected. This is par for the course.
      Play through Mr. Hides-his-face; quick, before Michelle catches up, gotta smoke?
      -line

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:36pm

    its a shame that it appears they didnt know about this.. I say appears because i am sure they did know at least the guys in the field they may not have shared with the upity ups because frankly I wouldnt share with idiots either

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  • JoeIsuzu
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:34pm

    It has spread to Serbia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12373901

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  • oldchevyguy
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:29pm

    Obama should be judged by his friends, who by the way were in Egypt

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:27pm

    The sides in Egypt were chosen long ago.

    Libs will blame Bush somewhere, as expected. But for the past two years, who has been president? And, what has he done to either support or prevent the situation?

    I’m being cynically rhetorical here. Few libs, if any, will post to this thread. They can’t face the hard questions, those queries that might make them think for once and finally get some kind of relevant coherence.

    To get ‘opposing opinions’, how about we change the headline to, “Did Bristol Palin’s Dancing Stop US Intel From Predicting Egyptian Uprising?”

    Do that, and the libs will invade/infest us.

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  • Whostolemypig
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:27pm

    The White House was probably cut out of the intel loop. The world is safer that way.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:19pm

    We shouldn‘t be investigating what the WH didn’t know but what they did know.

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  • kuhl
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:18pm

    Recall back in 2009 when the question of how much Pelosi knew about waterboarding came up? Obama threw the CIA under the bus right away on that one and is doing the same here. I cannot imagine the intelligence agency would have not briefed the President and the National Security Council on this. Then again, they can brief all they want if nobody listens.

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  • aLinedog
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:16pm

    It’s an endless source of amusement to me, how the Administration of the day always blames the Intel community. Imagine, for a moment the reams of information they filter through.
    Consider the number of times crimes are permitted to occur because of a lack of proof against the perpetrator until it’s too late.
    Analysts are usually looking at sheaf upon sheaf of data and forced to draw a conclusion. And their answers are rarely enough to enable action because the Authority is unwilling to sign the order without ‘proof’. Why? Because if they are wrong it may affect their career…
    Then a disaster occurs and the Admin blames Intel for not warning them.
    Damned if you guess, damned if you don‘t and thrice damned if you lie about having proof because you’re damned sure but have no solid evidence! Read: WMDs
    So get the hell off of the Intel Comm! I’d wager they work harder to do their job correctly, than 90% of the world’s population. ((That percentage should be adjusted by the number of military and emergency personnel active throughout))
    I may be wrong, but I think those people ignorant of the mountains of ‘tips’, that the Analysts sort through, should cut ‘em a little slack.
    -Line

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:15pm

    It seems quite a coincidence that some of Obama’s best buddies, Bill and Bernadine, are kissy kissy with the Muslim Brotherhood and those who hate Israel, wouldn’t you say, America?

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:09pm

    Do you recall the name Ahmed Chalabi? The wonderful source of intelligence we had to base our invasion of Iraq on. Why yes they will be throwing roses at our feet and blowing kisses at our troops as we parade triumphantly through their streets. Why do you folks not remember?

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  • JoeIsuzu
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:02pm

    This “Rebirth or Destruction” was predicted two years ago by perhaps the most accurate market timer. See http://www.timingsecrets.com/newsletter/2011-01-28-Rebirth-Destruction.php and http://www.timingsecrets.com/newsletter/2009-08-09-Echo-of-the-Past.php Check it out.

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  • DagnysCousin
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:44pm

    Assuming for a moment this is true, just what would BO have done if he was informed about the riots earlier? Made popcorn???

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:52pm

      Dagny
      Probably practice his golf swing………….

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:43pm

    so…. would this be the same “intelligence” group that misled PRESIDENT Bush that there were WMDs in Iraq? funny how the worm turns …on obama.. now HIS “intelligence” is not so much.

    actually, this all-American veterans family believes obama was in on it from Day One and long before the anti-American chicago goon terrorist Bill Ayers left his townhouse with vile wife and traitorous code pink witches… all of them clutching the plane tickets that soros paid for.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:22pm

    Of course he knew exactly what was going on. Some of the radicals who were behind this are on his white house staff. Feinstein asked the question knowing the answer. She is providing the cover for the white house. Obama lost Tunisia, Turkey, and Egypt, Clinton lost Bosnia and Carter lost Iran. Why doesn’t this happen to republicans?

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    • Boojer56
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 9:17am

      I forgot Lebanon and Jordan under Obama’s watch

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  • byehlik
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:22pm

    Obama is an incompetent, he has surrounded himself with incompetence, and he will continue in his incompetency. If it is not Marxist/socialist policy, he is freaking lost and unconcerned. He probably was told about the issues in Egypt, well in advance, but it was no concern. His priorities are he has to save his precious control infrastructure, namely Obomacare. He has to keep the illegal immigration going unchecked and unabated. And of course, make sure there is no drilling for oil or natural gas taking place on his watch here in the USA. The guy is a total failure on so many levels, this is just another Obamination!

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  • RogueAmeritarian
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:20pm

    Our closest ally EGYPT, sure they knew what was going on – Mubarak was not a dictator, the Muslim Brotherhood are not terrorists, and the people had no problem with the tyranny. This administration only sees & hears what it wants, as long as it hurts this country!!!

    Personally, I think that as soon as Maher is done with Anthony’s Weiner, he should send it to O’******.

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  • roxee
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:19pm

    Yes, just like NORAD failed 4 times Sept. 11,2001. Most know that the IMF has been choking food prices world wide. The Eyptians have been on the streets for a couple of years, Main Scream Media has not been covering it. Back in 1990 Alamoudi Sami al Arian and Bill Clinton were pals.
    The CIA,Mossad,MI6 had to get all their hired stooges , thugs , in place then run through the streets on camels, and burn US falgs for coverage of the made up violence,which inturn has caused real violence. Chaos Calm theory has worked for centuries. They have their new puppet red eye to come to power,same old story …yawn!

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  • f2345ranky
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:16pm

    Obama should fire his intelligence people. This is not the first time Clapper, Brennan, and Napolitano have shown their inexperience and bias when it comes to anything dealing with Muslims.

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  • APatriotFirst
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:14pm

    Obama knew but since he hoped he didn’t have to do anything, because he didn’t have a clue as to what to do, he now blames it on others. Typical Obama.

    Seems Obama doesn’t want to deal with foreign problems. He is too busy trying to ruin USA

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  • Chasvs391
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:13pm

    Amazing how fast they are to blame the intelligence for this Obama Ball Drop! This is all a direct result of his Muslim coddling. They know he won’t do anything, so now is their chance to overthrow all Leaders friendly with the West. We need to impeach Obama now for Treason or take to the Streets! If the LEFT wants Revolution, I’ll give them Revolution!

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Yeah right like he was gonna do something if he knew .

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:25pm

      Again how do we start the impeachment or treason charges?

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:10pm

    Bernanke and his dollar printing caused the food inflation which was the straw that broke the camels back and sparked the uprising, so maybe our intelligence new, and intended it to happen.
    http://guerillatics.com

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    • roxee
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Spot on , Ironman!

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    • royalstar
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:37pm

      I agree that Obama and his minions have known what is going on in Egypt and all of the middle east long before the so-called intelligence community shared intel with them. They probably know more than the so-called intelligence community combined. They are designing the whole thing. Why else would Obama insist that the muslim brotherhood be included in the new political process. They are laying the groundwork for their immediate or eventual takeover.It is a mistake to think that Obama is misguided, incompetent, or otherwise ignorant. He knows exactly what he is doing. He is not ignoring anything. He just has completely different priorities than what most commonsense Americans and competent patriots have in mind. What is up is down and what is down is up. Diametrically opposed to what is in ours or frankly the middle easts best interests.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:02pm

      Yes .. I believe all is going according to “plan” …. next necessarily skyrocketing energy!

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:06pm

    hahahahhhhaaaaahhhhaaaaa
    Obama didn’t know what Ayers and Dohrn and Evans and Khalidi were doing in Egypt ?

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:14pm

      They were hanging out at a code pink party cheez. It seems like all the radicals are now hanging out in Egypt. I’m more concerned with the radicals that want to get the hands on power in Egypt. It doesn’t sound like they like us too much.

      http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the mixed messages in Egypt video

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    • byehlik
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:23pm

      Obama is an incompetent, he has surrounded himself with incompetence, and he will continue in his incompetency. If it is not Marxist/socialist policy, he is freaking lost and unconcerned. He probably was told about the issues in Egypt, well in advance, but it was no concern. His priorities are he has to save his precious control infrastructure, namely Obomacare. He has to keep the illegal immigration going unchecked and unabated. And of course, make sure there is no drilling for oil or natural gas taking place on his watch here in the USA. The guy is a total failure on so many levels, this is just another Obamination!

      Empty suit!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Glenn Beck knew. If the Czar-in-Charge of Glenn Beck and Fox News had been on the job, Obama would have been all over it….no, that’s the basketball court he would have been all over.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:25pm

      cnsrvtvj
      Checkout the video
      http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2011/02/callinicos-on-egyptian-revolution.html
      Its nasty but it gets downright eerie after the 14 min mark when that guy starts quoting Trotsky .
      Note the genesis of the phrase “ fundamental transformation” .
      And Hussain wants us to think he didn’t know about it ?
      Goshdarnit he was counting on it

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Clapper forgot to “Clap On” the monitoring. Besides, the left screamed to neuter the CIA, for fear they were becoming too powerful, then 9/11, and they aren’t doing their job. Thus Bush beefed the agency back up, 2006, Pelosi and Reed take over congress, back to neutering the CIA. Now the Dems scream, “Why didn’t they see this coming?”. If you blind a cop, do you really expect him to see someone run a red light?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:36pm

      Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Clapper ?
      Isn‘t that the same dude who was cluless about the arrest of British jihadies because his own department thought he didn’t deserve to be let in into such info ?

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:45pm

      They weren’t monitoring the little turd at the taco stand…

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Yes, the merging of the Islamists and the communists is very interesting. Of course when the Islamists take power they will do away with the leftists.

      But where is the story about the blown up gas pipeline in SinaI ? Blaze , you are a little slow on this one.

      Was watching Al Jezeera very early this morning when this happened and the images of the flames shooting 100s of feet into the air was striking. I was transfixed to the live pictures and in my mind was taken back a few thousand years BC to the time when Moses was leading the Jewish people out of Egypt through this area, the Sinai, and eventually into the promised land, which is present day Israel. In the Sinai the piller of fire followed the Jews at night and must have looked something like this. There are earth shaking events happening right now, and what happens next is anyones guess, but Israel is very concerned and God is watching over his people. Pray for Israel and the rest of the region as well. We do live in very interesting times.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:51pm

      cheezwhiz
      Yeah, same one, but they defended him by saying his job was to look at the BIG picture stuff. I’ll bet his biggest job is not drooling on his desk when he falls asleep.
      Everytime I hear of his name I think of Homor Simpson sitting at the power plant controls…”Gee, what does that flashy red light mean….oh well, it will wait until I come back from lunch.”

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Clapper — He’s the one in the interview with Janet Napolitano (and — who was that guy who kept backstopping for him) who didn’t know about the problems in London that morning.

      Napolitano just sat there and said that there was no security problem in the United States.

      Do you ever get the feeling that the federal government just hires people to get them off welfare?!

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    • portague
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:00pm

      GONESURFING
      Hey i looked up the pipe you were talking about didnt glenn bring up they would cut supplies to isreal and it looks they got more than that Syria and Jordan. are effected by this as well. Also was there not a report jordan and syria uprising were under control they may not be after this especially jordan

      The blast also halted the gas supply to Jordan, which depends on Egyptian gas to generate 80 percent of its electricity.

      there managing to keep electricity up but at significant higher cost. Could take a week to fix. Thats assuming something else does not get blown up on the way.

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    • what4
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:09pm

      Intelligence had been severly dumbed down since Odumbo took office!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:10pm

      @Portague –
      Al Jazeera just reported that the gas explosion was due to a leak. I heard on American TV that it was a terrorist attack.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:15pm

      Why should Soros tell Obama about anything he is doing. Does your boss tell you every time he advances his agenda? No he doesn’t.

      Oh, and YouTube is taking down MANY videos exposing what they are doing on the left. We are under full attack. Top down, bottom up, inside out.

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:17pm

      cheezwhiz – That was a wild video. These guys are everywhere.

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    • DagneyT
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Exactly. He and his ilk knew long ago what was coming in Egypt and all across the middle east! God over yourself, oblahblah!

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 8:11pm

      CHEEZWHIZ, watched the video, typical communist drivel, the enemy within. A true communist I knew some years ago not only quoted trotsky but had a large portrait of Mao on the living room wall. To him Trotsky was a moderate. He was a true die hard communist and I was swayed for awhile until I grew up and saw the light so to speak. Fortunately in America these nuts are a fringe minority, I’m talking about the old style hard line commies, but the sickness seems to be growing, just look at the president.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 8:26pm

      cnsrvtvj
      I’m so glad we have a mega genius in the WH , leading a pack of super heroes who are running around with “ reset” buttons.

      http://financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/the-meaning-of-revolution?q=node%2F4033
      A heady mix of Moscow and Mecca

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    • Cymry
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 8:31pm

      leon “pants” panetta didn’t have anything to do with this intelligence failure. soetoro had nothing to do with it either because any effective national intelligence effort requires the chief executive (or in this case, someone usurping that office) to have the nation’s interests as their own.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 8:44pm

      @cheezwhiz
      except Obama’s reset button says Overcharge (in Russian). That’s what they are doing, overcharging and charging over us.

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    • troyvar
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:11pm

      I think “the pants-suited one” should get a little credit on this one. After all she is our Secretary of State. Guess that’s what happens when you prop up a dictatorial government.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:26pm

      This is what happens when you slap the Intelligence Community with the fear of lawsuits. You get fear of failure and the only result of that fear is the failure we see now.

      This goes to Eric Holder and his attempts to bring charges to Bush Era Intelligence officials that were career employees. It sent a message of fear inside to the people that you need to trust.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:40pm

      “U.S. Intelligence” .. in the Obama Admistration? God help us!

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Impeach Barry Soetoro.

      He’s sabotaging the United States by using the EPA to shut down our power plants. They also plan on taking over our water and food. They’re poisoning our water and food.

      I’m gonna make a big old sign saying “IMPEACH BARACK OBAMA” and go stand by the freeway exit with it like those homeless dudes.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:49pm

      cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:25pm
      cnsrvtvj
      Checkout the video
      http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2011/02/callinicos-on-egyptian-revolution.html
      Its nasty but it gets downright eerie after the 14 min mark when that guy starts quoting Trotsky .
      Note the genesis of the phrase “ fundamental transformation” .
      And Hussain wants us to think he didn’t know about it ?
      Goshdarnit he was counting on it

      I just watched that whole video you posted. The only hope i have is that the EU falls after the Middle East, giving us here in the U.S. time to properly prepare. I don’t mean physically prepare, but rather mentally prepare and ask ourselves, “what if”. “What do i do if this comes to my community, or if 250,000 show up in the halls of Congress demanding ousters”.
      Will we sit back and watch on cable news, or will we stand, and maybe die, for the Constitution? What if you live in a big city (most likely starting points…) and rioters are calling for the heads of those in your local government? Will you stand by and cover your head under the sheets and wait for the “boogieman” to go away, or will you stand, and maybe die, for your neighbors?
      What if these crazy revolutionaries come to your door and demand fealty to their cause? What then? Do you kneel before them and kiss their ring of fealty or do you what is your right under the Constitution and make them pay for daring to violate the safety of your family?
      We all hate this, and can post whines and complaints all day, but in the end you have to ask yourself the hard question.
      What will YOU do?

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:52pm

      Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:42pm
      Impeach Barry Soetoro.

      He’s sabotaging the United States by using the EPA to shut down our power plants. They also plan on taking over our water and food. They’re poisoning our water and food.

      I’m gonna make a big old sign saying “IMPEACH BARACK OBAMA” and go stand by the freeway exit with it like those homeless dudes.

      Which exit? I‘ll be there with a bucket o’ fried chicken and some “ernge drink’.
      Lol, yeah, I’m white, but I am from the south, so I dig on me some KFC and sunkist!

      Semper Fi and rally on, my Brother!

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:54pm

      Well as a hayseed hillbilly, I‘ve always had me some good luck lickin’ my finger to see whicha way the wind was a comin’ from.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:33pm

      My feels exactly CHEEZWHIZ! Hahahahahahahahaha…What an oxymoron…”US and INTELLIGENCE!!!!!” HA HA HA HA HA

      We’ve looked like nothing but a bunch of fools for the past two years….”US and INTELLIGENCE!!!!” ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:51pm

      Everyone should read this article…”Obama’s Deadly Anti-British Agenda”

      http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/obamas_deadly_antibritish_agen.html

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    • touch
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:01pm

      Obama “disappointed with the intelligence community”

      LOL

      The disappointment must start the moment he looks in the mirror, no?

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:03pm

      Brigite Gabriel…actforamerica.org
      I transcribed this from a speech she gave…(wish we had the ability to post things in italics or bold so I could highlight the real critical info)…I know it’s long…but I think, worth your time…note that the Muslim Brotherhood was started because an Islamic caliphate (Glenn has been talking about this very topic this week) DID exist, but was destroyed by an Egyptian President in 1928…

      We in America should be very concerned…

      The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest Islamic terrorist organization in the world. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt, as a response to President Ataturk ending the Islamic caliphate; giving rights to women to vote, to not wear a hijab, to go to work, to get an education. So a group of Muslim radicals in Egypt said, “How can this man end the caliphate? Islam is the best religion in the world. Islam is the supreme religion. It is above Christianity and Judaism.” Therefore, they founded the group in order to bring back the Islamic caliphate and re-institute Sharia Law. Most people did not pay attention to them thinking them a small, insignificant group. However, this group has grown and grown and grown. And, today, the Muslim Brotherhood has 70 Islamic off-shoot organizations around the world including Al Qaeda and Hamas.

      The Muslim Brotherhood is the mother ship that launched modern Islamic terrorism as we know it today. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the second man of Al Qaeda, used to be one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was actually arrested by the Egyptian government, thrown in prison and then later sent into exile. Osama Bin Laden was also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohammad Atta, the ring-leader of the 9/11 attack was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Shak Waheed Mohamed came out of the Muslim Brotherhood as well. This is exactly why President Mubarak immediately shut off the internet connection to Egypt because he knew that Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the second man of Al Qaeda, would be trying to connect and communicate with the street in Egypt; rallying on, pushing, giving instructions to the youth that were rioting right now and to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt who are continuing on to topple the regime. That was the reason why the Mubarak government immediately shut off the internet.

      Not all of the Egyptian people accept the Muslim Brotherhood. Of course not all of the peoples of Egypt are members of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the Muslim Brotherhood does have a huge membership in that country. But, what the Muslim Brotherhood has in common with the Egyptian people is that they DO represent the majority of the people in Egypt. The worldpublicopinion.org did a survey in Egypt where they went in Egypt door to door interviewing people face to face asking them if they would like to bring back the establishment of an Islamic caliphate around the world. According to the survey, 67% of those interviewed, more than 2/3rd of the population…hardly a fringe minority, desire this outcome: A caliphate throughout the world! In the poll, they were also asked if they want the implementation of Sharia Law across the Islamic world and 74% of those surveyed want and support the strict application of Sharia Law in every Islamic country. So, as you can see, the population of Egypt…the people themselves, are not people just like us. You know, they think just like us, they believe in women’s rights, etc., this that and the other. One very important thing to mention is that Egypt is that Egypt is the second largest Islamic region in the world. It has 80 million people (second largest after Indonesia). Egypt comes number one in the world of women who are genitally mutilated. Whether their husbands are doctors or lawyers or millionaires, or educated, or whatever, at 97%. So that gives us an idea of what their basics are…where they come from religiously into all this and why the Muslim Brotherhood is so entrenched in Egyptian society. If elections are held today, the Muslim Brotherhood will win hands down. Most of the population in Egypt are in agreement, hands, down with their point of view. And that is why they will have representation in government and will take over the government.

      Mohammad El Baradei was the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He was supposedly monitoring Iran’s nuclear development. It was actually El Baradei who turned a blind eye to what Iran was doing and allowed the Iranians to advance as much as they have in their nuclear development. AND, as a thank you to El Baradei, the Iranian government gave him over $7 million in September of 2010. They wanted him to run for president of Egypt to bring about “political change in the country”. The money was funneled to him in Bucharest, Romania through an Arab businessman known only by the initials A and E. That being all we know about him. Iran wants to prop up El Baradei to be able to work with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to get rid of the Mubarak regime. The Mubarak regime is friendly to Israel and who signed a Peace Treaty with Israel and gave Israel the “green light” last year to allow Israel to use its’ submarines to take its’ subs through the Suez Canal in case Israel gets into a confrontation with Iran or does a pre-emptive attack against Iran. That is why Iran has a vested interest of making sure that there is instability in Egypt, the Mubarak regime is toppled and that someone who is friendly to Iran is appointed to the leadership of Egypt.

      It is for certain that all of our allies in the region are thinking that if the United States is throwing Mubarak under the bus this fast, considering that Mubarak has been such a stanch ally to the United States; Mubarak who was actually standing on the stands when Anwar Sadat was assassinated for signing a peace treaty with Israel (that’s how Mubarak became President). Mubarak stood with the United States. He enforced the peace accord with Israel. He allowed Israel to have an advocacy in Cairo, representation in Cairo. He kept the diplomatic relationship. Mubarak actually worked with the coalition (Egypt also being a part of the coalition) actually went and attacked Sadam Hussein to liberate Kuwait in the first Gulf War. Mubarak stood with the United States as well throughout the 1990’s in our war as we were looking at radical Islamic organizations as well, especially in the last 10 years since September 11th. He worked with the United States providing intelligence to us about radical Islamic operations all around the world. He stood with the United States. So Arabic regimes who are friendly with the United States like the Saudis; like King Abdullah (Jordan) , who know that there are a lot of people in their populations who detest the fact that they are working with the Americans or even considering talking to the United States and Israel are looking at America and how easily we have disposed of Mubarak or threw him under the bus. They are thinking, “What type of ally is this. America will stab you in the back in a heart beat”. That is why this is actually damaging our relationships with our allies around the world and they are not going to be as helpful or as loyal to us knowing that that is what America now does. Look we have betrayed the Shah in Iran and now we are betraying Mubarak!

      The United States needs to be very, very careful right now. It has been leaked that we are working with the Mubarak regime behind the scenes in making certain to identify people with whom we can negotiate. That we can talk with. Like an interim government to fill the void. At least to figure out something between now and the next election. We need to use whatever boots we have on the ground over there to identify true leaders within the protestors who are pro-western, pro the west, pro-democracy, who can be trusted. We also need the Mubarak regime to let us know who these people are. Someone we can work with. Someone we can prop up and give support to. So that the people on the street will feel that they have a spokes person representing THEIR point of view to the world and that America is standing on the side of Democracy and freedom and at least that will allow us and give us the time to actually think about a true ally that we can work with and prop up and support because things are moving so rapidly right now that it is proposing a major challenge to the west because we are seeing the political landscape changing in the Middle East right before our eyes.

      The real problem is that it is unknown if the Obama administration even knows what it is doing. Obama talking about working with the Muslim Brotherhood. Giving them rights in the government. Giving them representation in the government. You would think that he has learned nothing from what happened in Lebanon or with Hamas when both terrorist organizations came to power. Hamas in the Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon when Democratically they were given representation in the governments. Right now Hamas completely controls the Gaza strip and Hezbollah literally just took the government in Lebanon two weeks ago. America has just within the past 3 weeks lost 3 Islamic secular regimes who were supporting the United States. One in Tunisia, one in Lebanon and now we are losing Egypt right before our eyes.

      It would appear that the Obama administration does not know what it is doing when it comes to foreign policy and especially what is happening in Egypt based upon what Obama has been saying in the last few days about the US needing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood because they are changing, they are just not as “bad” as they used to be! What? Of course they are not as “bad” as they used to be because they are saying whatever “needs” to be said in order to secure a position in this government. It is very concerning that we basically have a community organizer as our President who is going to be even more damaging to our country as Carter was during the times of the Shah of Iran and ushering in Khomeini and the Mullocracy in Iran and Iran with nuclear bombs that we are looking at today. The decisions that Obama is making, not only right now, but those that he has made over the past two years, are not only causing major destruction of the United States from within in our own capitalist system. Obama is causing destruction around the world because of his words, his actions and his weaknesses. He is seen as an appeaser who is causing evil and radicals to rise up because they are emboldened by these weaknesses and signs of cowardice. These perceptions are causing up rises and creating regime change across the Middle East that will affect not only the Middle East, and America and the West. Right now, only the Muslim Brotherhood can fill in the regime and the void that exists in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is the most organized and they are communicating with Iran.

      You have to remember that over 60% of the people right now in Egypt are under the age of 30. This is not because this society is educated. It is because radical Islam is growing and they are marrying multiple wives and having multiple children at the same time. That is what has caused the rise in the Egyptian population of today. We saw the same thing happen in Iran since the Mullahs took over the regime in 1979. This is why in Iran today, 70% of the population is under the age of 30. So the writing is already on the wall in Egypt. What we in America have to do is be very smart in the way that we handle the situation.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:35pm

      CIA and FBI was too busy spying on US citizens to know what was going on in Egypt. I bet the Israelies knew and told the WH(Obama). Since he hates them he just ignored it. Obama knows if the MB get control of Egypt then Isreal will be attacked. Obama was in on this from the beginning. That is why he has rushed to destroy US energy production. He must create a crisis so we beg him to fix it by becoming a dictator. Worked in the past in other countries why not here among the stupid?

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    • jds7171
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:40pm

      Obama is upset with the intelligence community, I guess we are going to have a new department of intelligence and an intelligence czar coming soon.

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    • S G Applebee
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 1:23am

      How is it that Americans are so suprised when our federal government misses the “Big Picture” over, and over, and over, and over? The collapse of The Soviet Union?…missed it! The rise of religious fundamentalism?…missed it! Tiananmen square? Missed it!… The real estate bubble?…Missed it! Banking collapse?…Missed it! The crisis in Egypt?…Missed it!…etc……………..
      How can liberals be SOOOO ignorant of history that they STILL put their BLIND FAITH in the “wisdom” of the federal government?!

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    • alshere
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 1:44am

      Obamadinegad knew exactly what they were doing. He is willing to talk to the Brotherhood. It gets curiouser and curiouser.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 3:03am

      @LIBERTYLUVNMOMMA The Charlatan is reactive, not proactive. Not a leader unless it is to push bigger government

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 5:29am

      A better question is…does our Intelligence EVER get it right?

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:16am

      The “Speech Giver” did KNOW and this is exactly what he wants to happen in the Middle East !!! Why did he give that I APOLOGIZE for America Sermon in Cairo in the first place ???? Social Justice and Sharia Law are he same thing in the eyes of a ONE PARTY rule society !!!! It is funny that when a Presidential campaign is on the Horizon that things get changed by EVENTS !! Health-Care,Economy and unemployment are now are being replaced by Foreign Policy problems!!! Who do you think the MUSLIM countries want to see as OUR next President Barry Hussein or a CONSERVATIVE !!!!

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 6:36am

      The “Speech Giver” KNEW all along about Egypt and this is exactly what he wants to happen in the Middle East !!! Why did he give that I APOLOGIZE for America Sermon in Cairo in the first place ????

      Social Justice and Sharia Law are he same thing in the eyes of a ONE PARTY rule society !!!! It is funny that when a Presidential campaign is on the Horizon that things get changed by EVENTS !! Health-Care,Economy and unemployment are now are being replaced by Foreign Policy problems!!!

      Who do you think the MUSLIM countries want to see as OUR next President, Barry Hussein Obama or a CONSERVATIVE !!!!

      Global Economy,Global Warming,Global Justice and Global SHARIA Law is what the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD stand for also !!!

      Look at their English website and notice the sickle and hammer communist ad !!

      http://www.ikhwanweb.com/articles.php?pid=92

      TERM LIMITS NOW !!

      FAIR TAX NOW !!

      CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS UNITE !

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    • OneNationIndivisable
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 7:02am

      Bring back the Secret Service. Since It was consolidated into the Department of Homeland Security it has been a dismal failure. Here is the Muslim master plan, here is my prediction. The Muslim Brotherhood, first takes over power in Egypt and then several other Middle Eastern Countries. They take control of Israel preserving their nuclear warheads. Their long range nuclear missles are capable of reaching the US. You can fill in the blanks from here.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:07am

      The bigger our government, the lousier the job! Can any of these politicians do anything right? No wonder so many Americans have become disillusioned with our current members of Congress…

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    • Boojer56
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 8:24am

      My Sacred Honor
      I think most people asked themselves that question Hence the ammunition shortage. The Rioting you see overseas will most likely take place here and what the police can’t handle citizens will. The fact that 60% of our population is armed will prevent a complete overthrow. This is why the rioting in the 60s never got very far.

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    • hud
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 10:32am

      You snooze, you lose. Democrats always gut intelligence, and this is no exception.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on February 6, 2011 at 11:46am

      World Did US Intelligence Drop the Ball in Predicting Egyptian Unrest?
      ……………………………………………………………………..
      Don’t know about the Americans but, do know the Egyptians did.

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