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Nat'l Security Adviser Says Today's White House Review Will 'Shock' (VIDEO)
Evan McMorris-Santoro | January 7, 2010, 9:16AM
National Security Adviser James Jones
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The White House National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones, told USA Today that the government review of the intelligence and security failures that led to the Christmas Day bombing due out today will cause "a certain kind of shock" when Americans read it.
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President Obama "is legitimately and correctly alarmed that things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available, were not acted on," Jones said in an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY.
USA Today video of the interview:
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MJAN
January 7, 2010 9:31 AM
This is only getting picked up because he used the word "shock." Now all the headlines read "The report will SHOCK Americans," as opposed to Jones's more subdued "certain kind of shock." Who knows. I'll wait until I actually read the review to see how I feel. Imagine that.
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Why oh why
January 7, 2010 9:32 AM
Will this review explain why Cubans are now considered potential terrorists?
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jeez louise
January 7, 2010 11:17 AM
It would be even more SHOCKING to find out how many Bush era moles are strategically placed in some of these intelligence agencies who are delaying the sharing of vital information about possible enemy attacks in the hope that an attack on the US of A will undermine the President.
Now let's see the media scream that as a headline for several days.
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marlow
January 7, 2010 11:27 AM
Funny notion that someone posted above regarding the possibility of people deliberately fucking things up...the obvious response is to rattle the cage and wave the bloody shirt about conspiracies...
except for at least one point that deserves mention...in his autobiography Bill Clinton relates one of the details from a meeting he had with the then leader of China...who suggested in strong terms that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was no accident...but rather the work of the CIA...
President Clinton states that he could not guarantee that people within the CIA had not deliberately provided false information for the strike that led to the bombing of the embassy...
of course as this story does not relate to sex no one bothered to ask the president if he would like to clarify the statement or retract it or if he is seriously telling us that there are people within the government, operating in the most sensitive areas of national and international security, who, it seems, think Dr. Strangelove is not a warning of what happens when things go horribly wrong, but rather, an ode to how to make things go your way...no matter how many people have to die...
So it goes...
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