We must take our joy where we find it. I never thought it would be a good day when John Ratcliffe gets appointed to head the CIA but “good” and “bad” are relative constructs. And if it’s a choice between Ratcliffe and Patel, then yes, by golly, by gee, it’s not only a good day, it’s a great day in fact. Like it’s a great day when Marco Rubio is Secretary of State as opposed to Ric Grenell. And believe me, as the Trump Administration II comes together, we will have many such moments as these. This is going to be MAD Magazine meets the Twilight Zone with Machiavelli in the Rod Serling part. You think I jest? Wait. Just wait. Raw Story:
In the announcement, Trump specifically fingered Ratcliffe toeing the GOP line on the Hunter Biden laptop story as the reason he got the job.
“When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People,” he said.
The laptop, which was discovered in a repair shop in Maryland and reportedly had some of its contents relayed to Trump ally Rudy Giuliani during the 2020 election cycle, was a key focal point of Republican investigations for years, as they claimed it had emails on it that tied President Joe Biden to his son’s potentially improper international business dealings. While some emails were authenticated, no convincing evidence has emerged that Joe Biden committed any legal wrongdoing.
Republicans were particularly outraged that intelligence officials originally suspected the laptop’s contents were edited or manipulated by foreign actors to interfere in the election, which led some social media sites to suppress news about it in 2020. This later turned out not to be the case.
In 2020, Michael Hayden, a retired U.S. Air Force general and former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, was appalled by Ratcliffe’s statements defending the laptop’s authenticity.
“This idiot is abusing his office by politicizing it,” tweeted Hayden, who was deputy director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush. “The head of the intelligence community should be hands off on politics. This is reprehensible!”
Ratcliffe’s selection for CIA comes as many other loyalists close to Trump were reportedly vying for that role, including his former National Security Council figure Kash Patel and his former Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, raising alarm bells among intelligence experts fearful that having an unqualified person in the role would degrade America’s intelligence capabilities.
This also comes as former CIA Director John Brennan fears Trump’s various appointees could alienate foreign leaders — harming the intelligence community’s ability to gather information.
The idiot is now the boss. And “abusing” the office is the first order of business. that is the new normal going forward, take note.
The first thing a kakistocracy needs to establish itself is a myth, a lie now believed by all it’s members.
Biden’s laptop.
Tick.
Idiocracy we are here.
Who cares who heads our intelligence agencies…Trump trusts Putin more…so we should focus on what HIS intelligence agencies plan to do. All this pearl clutching over details is tantamount to worrying about the table settings on the Titanic after the iceberg. You ain’t seen nothing yet folks.