Who will read the PDB to bushit** now? Ray McGovern is scaring me again!

[leftchick]

This country is SOOOOO fucked.....


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505A.shtml


~snip~

The president's assertion that his "primary briefer" will be Negroponte-the man farthest removed from substantive intelligence analysis, not to mention from the sourcing and other peculiarities of the PDB articles chosen for a given day-is cause for concern. Is the director of national intelligence to be super-analyst as well as intelligence czar reigning over 15 intelligence agencies? Will he not have other things to do in the morning?

President Bush reportedly does not read the President's Daily Brief, but rather has it read to him. Will Negroponte choose which items to read on a given day? Who will do the actual reading? Will Goss be there? Does he, too, not have other things to do in the morning? Will there be a senior analyst there, with career protection, should it be necessary to correct Negroponte when he attempts to answer the president's questions?

And, with Negroponte as gatekeeper, who else will get an early-bird crack at the president? Is it likely that courtiers/partisans like Elliot Abrams will be there to "help" at the PDB briefings? And who is the president more likely to listen to concerning, say, the status of Iran's nuclear program?

It is impossible to overstate how much rides on the answers to those questions. Someone should tell President Bush to listen to what his earthly father has to say on all this. He knows.

[teryang]

1. That's so he can have someone explain the big words

...and tell him where Baghdad is.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Or, when Negroponte is put on the witness stand he can say,

"I accidently skipped those parts... we got distracted... it wasn't Dumbya's fault... it's MY fault... Here's my get 'out of jail free' card."

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Or that old standby, "It was historical in nature..."

:grr:

[Swamp Rat]

6. Hey, I like your chimp flag! n/t

:)

[Cooley Hurd]

3. And they thought they had intelligence failures before...

They now have NOTHING but yes-men TOADIES running all facets of our intelligence infrastructure. Meanwhile, our ports are STILL wide-open for an attack.:scared:

[JerseygirlCT]

5. " President Bush reportedly does not read the President's Daily Brief, but

rather has it read to him."

Maybe that explains Laura Bush's concern about literacy.