Thanks Alan. We are doing well. I so appreciate your insight on the psyop to complete their great reset. I am disheartened at the amount of Christians who seem to have no discernment. The collateral damage on both sides is sickening. Although it seems like are men have already shed blood and lives, I am against our treasure fighting in Ukraine or the Mideast. For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, it's coming here. And our Lord will soon be coming back. Thanking you for your updates and.....LOOKING UP!
Jxxxxxxxxxx, thank you for your terrific
response, I will put it on my blog.
ON AN OVERCAST AND CHILLY LATE AFTERNOON last February, CIA
Director William Burns went to Georgetown University's School of Foreign
Service to receive an award. After a few brief and typically gracious remarks,
he sat for a few questions, the first of which prompted him to launch into a
virtual tour d’horizon on the world’s trouble spots and the role of U.S.
diplomats and, of course, the CIA in advising U.S. policy makers.
“It’s
an overused term, but it's extremely important, especially in my current role,
to speak truth to power,” he said. “It's true for diplomats, it's certainly
true for intelligence officers.”
ON AN OVERCAST AND CHILLY LATE
AFTERNOON last February, CIA Director William Burns went to Georgetown
University's School of Foreign Service to receive an award. After a few brief
and typically gracious remarks, he sat for a few questions, the first of
which prompted him to launch into a virtual tour d’horizon on the world’s
trouble spots and the role of U.S. diplomats and, of course, the CIA in
advising U.S. policy makers. “It’s an overused term, but it's
extremely important, especially in my current role, to speak truth to power,”
he said. “It's true for diplomats, it's certainly true for intelligence
officers.” “We are at CIA, an apolitical institution,” he went on. “What
we owe the president—and he's been very clear with me—this is what he expects
is our straight honest analysis and insights, without a whiff of politics or
partisan agenda to it as well. And you know, we've learned over the years,
not just at CIA, but at state, we get ourselves in a lot of trouble as
agencies and as a country and we don't pay attention to that basic fact. So
that's something we take very seriously as well…” It’s a theme that apparently nags at
Burns, a highly regarded former diplomat who has spent a lot of his career
dealing with the Middle East. In an extraordinary 2019 memoir, he castigated
himself for not speaking up forcefully to George W. Bush administration
figures on the folly of invading Iraq in search of nonexistent WMD. “It’s a story of my
own failure to do more to prevent a war that we did not need to fight,” he
wrote in The
Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal. “Years later, that remains my
biggest professional regret.” Such a mea culpa
alone, unique in Washington on any issue but particularly among those who
engineered the Iraq disaster, moved me to enthusiastically welcome his appointment as CIA director in
2021. Telling truth to power—what a concept Two years later,
we’re reeling from the shock of Hamas’s “surprise” rampage in Israel. The
instant consensus was that the savage Hamas campaign, which saw the murder of
some 1,400 Israeli civilians and the kidnapping of 200 more, was not just a massive
intelligence failure on Israel’s part, but also ours. “U.S. intelligence
agencies all but stopped spying on Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups
in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., instead
directing resources to the hunt for the leaders of al Qaeda and, later,
Islamic State, according to U.S. officials familiar with the shift,” the Wall
Street Journal’s Warren P. Strobel reported by way of explanation this past week. Shifting Targets Resources had been shifted to major
targets of more direct interest to U.S. national security, sources told
Strobel. “There’s a really hard prioritization exercise that has to go on,” a
former counterterrorism official said. “The reality is that you don’t have
collection resources that you can exploit all over the world.” U.S. intelligence
sublet spying on Palestinian terror groups to the Israelis, it seems—a
“liaison” arrangement that has proven troublesome to the CIA elsewhere. But wait, U.S.
intelligence officials rushed to tell the New
York Times: On Sept. 28 the
CIA issued a report that “described the possibility that Hamas would launch
rockets into Israel over a period of several days.” A second report on Oct.
5, which “built on the first but was more analytical…appeared in a daily CIA
summary of intelligence that is distributed widely to policymakers and
lawmakers, the officials said.” Pretty weak sauce. Not only that,
“intelligence officials did not brief either of the reports to President
Biden or senior White House officials,” The Times added. “Nor did the CIA
highlight the reports to White House policymakers as being of particular
significance, officials said.” All this took me back to Bill Burns and his account of how he
and his fellow Iraq-invasion skeptics in the State Department essentially
gave up on trying to stop the war machine. “In
the end, we pulled some punches, persuading ourselves that we’d never get a
hearing for our concerns beyond the secretary if we simply threw ourselves on
the track,” he’d written. At
the CIA, Director George Tenet did pretty much the same: The White
House was intent on invading, so why commit career suicide? “Slam dunk,” he famously
uttered. His 1960s-era predecessor Richard Helms did much the same, rolling
over for the White House and Pentagon hawks on Vietnam, even as his own
analysts told him the military’s war was a loser. I’m
wondering if, in recent months, much the same dynamic was at work in
regard to the simmering Palestinians, whose dignity and lives prior to Oct. 7
were under escalating assault daily by the Israeli settlers and far-right
regime of Benjamin Netanyahu. In his Georgetown remarks last February, Burns
“recalled his role as a senior diplomat two decades ago during the Palestinian
uprising known as the Second Intifada,” the Times reported last week. “What
we’re seeing today has a very unhappy resemblance to some of those realities
that we saw then too,” he said. Actually, what he
added, according to the
video anyone can see,
was that “the conversations I had with Israeli and Palestinian leaders left me
quite concerned about the prospects for even greater fragility and even greater
violence between Israelis and Palestinians as well.” Why Israel is deliberately carrying out atrocities in Gaza https://www.brighteon.com/a7cec727-dc2e-417a-af1e-f0d3592d8d1a Gaza being exterminated to make way for lucrative Ben Gurion Canal that will cut across Israel to the Red Sea https://www.brighteon.com/c628d9c0-d2c6-470c-aaf9-ab6bf26083eb
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