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Old 08-28-2015, 13:07   #6
Badger52
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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu View Post
Considered along with the circumstances of Mattis being relieved from CENTCOM for being hard on his INTEL types for their assessments of Iran, either Obama wants to be given rose colored glasses or his staff refuses to give him the real information.

The latter could explain why he always learns about shit on the news....
I think a third option is that, directed from the top down, anything that paints a Muslim entity in a bad light is to be discouraged, let alone reach the 'staff'. If honest assessments are never created, then their existence never has to be denied; with the added bonus of having a fallguy (the intel community) if needed. I'll take "Managing the Blame Line" for 1200 Alex.
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