The Daily Beast is out with a story that the NSA has appointed one of President Obama’s top fundraising bundlers to the top post of the nation’s largest intelligence service. Should we be concerned that such an obvious partisan is getting this senior post? Absolutely. But even more concerning is that our nation’s senior intelligence leaders are being methodically replaced with Poison Ivies.
Last week Glenn Gerstell (Coumbia, -5) was appointed general counsel for the National Security Agency. Gerstell possesses the powerful 1-2 punch of Ivy League graduate degree and membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. These two attributes almost always indicate membership in the Aristocratically Exempt.
Earlier this year, President Obama appointed David S. Cohen (Cornell, Yale, -5) Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Cohen was previously with the Treasury Department’s Office of General Councel during the Financial Crisis of 2007-8. This should alarm all of us because as we have seen, the Aristocratically Exempt has a strong sense that they are the ‘chosen ones’ and therefore are exempt from the rules and regulations that may interfere with their winner take all attitudes, and above all else they swear allegiance to their Aristocratic brethren.
The financial crisis of 2007-8 taught us that these Aristocratically Exempt will ignore any law or rule that stands in their way, and they absolutely collude with each other to advance their agendas. Having these people in senior leadership positions in our intelligence agencies is an ominous development.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/nsa-appoints-obama-bundler-as-new-top-lawyer.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/01/09/david-cohen-cia-nomination-obama/21520985/
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