OK, now, once you identified a threat, what would President Gruss do? On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Scott wrote: >> >> 'use whatever they need'? Event torture? >> For what its worth, I put as much blame on the Clinton administration >> for 9/11 >> Some of the practices that lead to the 'economy catastrophe' were not >> only started under Clinton but were endorsed by his administration as >> well. > > "use whatever" - Let's say you're president and I'm one of your > trusted lieutenants. You hear about Bin Laden with the first week and > tell me, "Gruss, put a team together - use whoever and whatever you > need - and define the UBL threat. I want to know if he's a concern or > not and why or why not and I want to see data". That would've > resulted in a a detailed UBL briefing in the spring. Further you'd > ask me to find out how the UBL data was coming in. For example, to > define a UBL 'sipoc' that shows who's saying what, why, how, and when. > And you also ask me for recommendations and next steps. Another name > for that role might be "national security advisor". Too bad we didn't > have one of those. > > Clinton & UBL - when it comes to nat'l security the president owns it > on day 1. It's his job to define the threats and protect the nation > against them. Bush failed to do that with UBL and we got hit. His > fault 100%. That's what we hire him for and he failed. period. If > he doesn't want that responsibility he doesn't volunteer. That's what > leadership is. > > Clinton & the economy - you got it. Clinton signed into law the 2 > Acts that dismantled Glass Stegal and then enabled the creation of > legalized betting with massive leverage. Clinton uses the electricity > argument: it's a power for good but Bush let people stick forks into > the socket. The truth is Clinton should've never signed the Acts > until they included the regulatory mechanisms. But again, economic > security is what we hired Bush for and he failed. 100% his fault. > > Seems that people have forgotten (or don't know?) what a leader is. > They make excuses. The worst possible leader, of course, is one who > not only fails but fails to accept accountability. > > Bush is such a leader. > >
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