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A Look At Just One

Here are Tulsi Gabbard’s responsibilities, per Steve Schmidt. Note that a similar listing of gravely important duties can be made for all Cabinet positions.

Tulsi Gabbard is the director of national intelligence [DNI], who oversees 18 different three-letter espionage agencies.

They are as follows:

Civilian Intelligence Agencies (8):

1. 1. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) – coordinates and leads the entire IC.
   2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – focuses on foreign intelligence and covert operations.
   3. National Security Agency (NSA) – responsible for signals intelligence and cybersecurity.
   4. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) – provides geospatial intelligence (maps, imagery).
   5. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) – designs, builds, and operates spy satellites.
   6. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Intelligence Branch – handles domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
   7. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI) – focuses on drug-related intelligence.
   8. Department of State – Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) – provides intelligence to diplomats and policy makers.

Military Intelligence Components (8):

1. 9. U.S. Army Intelligence
   10. U.S. Navy Intelligence
   11. U.S. Air Force Intelligence
   12. U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence
   13. U.S. Space Force Intelligence
   14. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – military-focused intelligence and support for defense policy.
   15. Department of Homeland Security – Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) – focuses on threats to homeland security.
   16. Department of Energy – Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence – focuses on nuclear security and energy-related threats.

Department of the Treasury – Office of Intelligence and Analysis

1. 17. Provides intelligence on financial and economic threats, including terrorism financing and sanctions evasion.

Coast Guard Intelligence (part of DHS)

1. 18. Provides maritime-related intelligence, particularly around border security and drug interdiction.

All of that responsibility lives in the office of a woman who has literally zero intelligence training, zero intelligence experience, no history of operational action, education of or even a familiarity with the awesome responsibilities that attach to the nation’s security. Oddly, Trump and Tulsi say she’s right for her job.

Yer kidding, Trump and Tulsi, right? It’s a joke, right? And the rest of the Cabinet pretenders, too?

The qualifiers for any Trump appointment are:

Absolute loyalty to Trump. Willing to shed principles and integrity. Willing to display boundless emptiness just to be in the orbit of the cult leader. Willing to say patently absurd things and promote phantasmagorically destructive notions in order to expand the leader’s power and wealth. Think: nominations of judges and justices. This is the primary demand of dictators.

Is telegenic – looks good on TV, in press conferences and while lying to a roomful of Senators or Representatives in a Congressional hearing. Adept at claiming to have no memory of events that aren’t self-aggrandizing and is facile at making up rabid idiocies.

Will pursue any Trump policy including illegal or unconstitutional actions and will ignore court orders. Will promote any Trump lie, manipulation or temper tantrum and will aid in seeking retribution for all fantasy wrongs done to Trump, like others disagreeing with him.

Because of the great lapse of time, is unable to answer this question:

What was it like before your soul left your body? – source: probably Rick Wilson

These qualifiers stand as the gatekeepers to anyone seeking high appointment in a Trump administration or the judiciary. There is never consideration given to likelihood of honoring the oath of office, fitness for duty, skills, intelligence, training, ability to lead a high performing staff or the chance of doing something positive for America and the American people. All that is needed for appointment is listed above, leaving our nation in constant peril.

It’s also useful to be

– 2 generations younger than Trump, female and sexually attractive to him

– or a billionaire who can be exploited

– or a judicial candidate slavish to Trump.

Unintentionally Offered Wishful Thinking, From Consumer Reports

Hey, wait a second: Is that code for someone or for something specific? Who are the “pests and animals” they speak of? Are these the well known names of domestic terrorists who are attempting to invade our homes and nation in order to subjugate us? Are these the No Policy barbarians whose only purposes are to “tear it all down” and replace it with their absolute rule? Are these the vandals heaping over-the-top cruelty on thousands, even millions of people and dropping bunker busting destruction on our bedrock values and the societal ways we count on? Could they be the lawless perps who abuse the rights of everyone and do so in our name, as though we approve? Who are these “pests and animals?”

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some garden spray could rid us of these “pests and animals” to allow for the restoration of our national habitat?

It’s not that power corrupts; it’s that corruptible people seek power. – author possibly Frank Herbert

Reader Comments And The Risk of Public Opinion

Opinion is what I do. And I’m enormously grateful for readers’ comments and opinions, too.

Occasionally, I receive – let’s call them “cranky” – comments clearly intended to pick a fight or to own the libs through cruelty and to put me in my place. Because these comments are designed only to destroy, I never let them go live. (See Fine Print #6 below.) But recently one caused me to think about “putting it out there” and what that means.

We all like pats on the head, but in writing opinion pieces, including comments to these posts, more than that is dared. That caused me to pen the following for both of us, meaning for you, too, when you post your opinions. It’s to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s Garden Party.

• • If you’re gonna hang out your opinion
  • For everyone to see,
  • If accolades are all you want
  • Better brace for reality.

  • .

  • But it’s all right now.
  • I learned my lesson well.
  • You see, you can’t please everyone
  • So, you got to please yourself.

I encourage you to comment on these posts – to please yourself, of course, and perhaps to help others see and understand.

The Deconstructing Trump* Corner

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• [He] was his own world,
• and nothing that concerned anyone else
• was important to him . . .
• and nothing that touched him unimportant. 
• Kathleen Thompson Norris, 1933
• Look at [his] comments . . .
• They prove that the senator speaks his mind,
• and that he is not working with much when he does so.
• Anna Quindlen, 1993

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• * Deconstructing Trump by Mardy Grothe explores The Trump phenomenon through the lens of quotation history.
  

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