Intoxicated With Power

[reprehensor]

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9693

Ray McGovern, a 27-year career analyst with the CIA, is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and co-director of the Servant Leadership School, an outreach ministry in the inner city of Washington, DC.


It came at the very end of a long New York Times report of Jan. 2 regarding the havoc caused at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. because of heightened concern there of a terrorist attack.

"In a footnote, the director of security at Dulles airport was arrested Thursday on suspicion of drunk driving."

Dulles airport's director of security, former Secret Service agent Charles Brady, was pulled over on suspicion of being drunk at the wheel at the very height of the emergency! What a telling metaphor for malfeasance at a more senior level, I thought to myself. While President George W. Bush may no longer be drinking, the year 2003 showed him to be DWI in a far more dangerous sense-driving while intoxicated with power.

Worse still, unlike Brady and other drivers for whom the police provide disincentive to full-speed-ahead, the president sees no reason to apply the brakes—surrounded as he is with swift SUVs and with televangelist Pat Robertson riding shotgun.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Rats, I was just about to post this

Ray McGovern is quickly becoming one of my heroes. Excellent analysis from my favorite ex-CIA analyst.

[Karenina]

2. Common sense

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