On Monday, Britain arrested 12 men in an anti-terrorist sweep; the biggest such sweep in two years. That same Monday, James Clapper, Director of US Intelligence was interviewed by Diane Sawyer. Deviating from the normal line of softballs given to officials in Democratic administrations, Diane hits James with this stunner: "First of all, London," Sawyer said. "How serious is it? Any implication that it was coming here?" After a few moments of stunned silence and a "deer in the headlights" look, Diane follows up with "Director Clapper?" Director Clapper had no idea what the hell Mrs. Sawyer was talking about.
Granted, the raid and interview took place on the same day. However, the raid took place way before dawn in the US while the interview happened in the afternoon. Apparently, no one thought it was important enough to brief Director Clapper about the biggest terrorist sweep in UK in two years on the day he was scheduled to be interviewed by ABC. Secondly, and maybe even more disturbing, was the apparent lack of communication between the US and the UK. Seems like this is the kind of thing that the UK used to give the US advance notice of. If they did given advance notice, why wasn't Clapper notified? If they didn't, why leave us in the dark? Maybe they are still pissed off because Obama removed the Churchill bust from the White House. The White House has jumped in and defended Clapper saying the question was ambiguous. I am not convinced. In the same interview Janet Gestapliano dropped this gem: "We are thousands of people are working 24/7, 364 days a year to keep the American people safe," Hope no one I know is flying on the day they are not working. J - Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Daniel Webster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332827 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
