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I wrote a book that was published five years ago this month. What a humbling and amazing experience. Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA
Marc Polymeropoulos
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Marc Polymeropoulos
@Mpolymer
MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod co-host. Once a USG alphabet soup intel guy. TBI/PTS survivor. Heavy metal nut. Unhinged RedSox fan.
🇺🇸 chillin on a 🇬🇷 beach
Joined November 2010
- I'm a moderate. I own guns for self defense. I dislike the NRA, as they dont represent my views. I'm for UBCs (obvious), an assault weapons ban (zero reason for any citizen to have one), and 21 year old age req to purchase (no drink, no gun). I bet big % of America supports this.
- I worked 26 yrs at CIA and retired as a four star general equivalent. I never, not once, saw any partisanship from career US officials get in the way of implementing formal USG policy. This charge is bs. And I was involved in every hot spot across the 🌎. There is no deep state.
- My comments today… the best way to honor Navalny is the 60 billion aid package to Ukraine.
00:00 - Congress has thrown in the towel on any type of oversight.Senate GOP chair declines hearings on Trump's boat attacks off Venezuela trib.al/sf2kf3u
- Imagine being a US intelligence officer who spent the last several years working with Ukrainians on the ground as the Russians hav murdered, raped and pillaged Ukraine. And your President then says this nonsense. Total Kremlin talking points. Disgraceful and embarrassing."You should have never started it" Trump just gave a press conference where he mocked Ukrainian President Zelensky while repeating the Kremlin lie that Ukraine started the war.
00:00 - Perspective from someone who actually lived in places in the third world that had real shortages of food and other goods: stop the politicized nonsense on “empty shelves.” We sound like a bunch of hysterical spoiled children.
- This will dominate headlines in Europe for days. As an American, I’m embarrassed and appalled. This is not who we are. Imagine being a US diplomat posted in Europe right now. Don’t forget – NATO militaries suffered significant casualties – fighting with us after 9/11.Trump 'encourages' Russia to attack non-paying Nato allies bbc.in/48idnBM
- Sad but true article. I worked 26 years at CIA, and met fantastic GOP foreign policy officials. I can’t think of anyone I know from the GOP, zero, with any experience, who will touch this toxic administration. Result is not a JV team- we talkin Little League. Playin in pro ball.“As his first term comes to a close, the professionals around Trump are not all that professional.” politico.com/news/2020/10/1…
- It’s getting ridiculous at this point. I have no f-ing idea what the IC or DoD is thinking dealing with this guy. He could not pass even a basic background check for a new employee in the intelligence community. Congressional oversight is silent. Pathetic.
- Scenario likely happening overseas: An agent braces his case officer "ok, so you're telling me that the info that I'm giving you all, that can get me killed, can be just taken home by a former president? And your vaunted justice system is tied in knots? This is nuts. I quit."
- Israeli intel has sophisticated technology, plus HUMINT and SIGINT coverage, that blankets the West Bank/Gaza. It's their raison d'etre. How this happened-the colossal intel failure-is incomprehensible. Having worked with Israelis, plus time in West Bank and Gaza, I'm stunned.
- Zawahiri apparently the target of the successful strike. There will be many smart pieces of analysis for what this means in the global counterterrorist fight. For many of us, however, it is personal-justice finally served, as many of our friends died trying to get to this day.
