Chris Buckley has a funny story up about Admiral Dennis Blair, who is apparently likely to be Obama's Director of National Intelligence.
Then, two days later, the Good Lord, having heard my whingeing, took pity upon and delivered Commander Blair unto me. It happened in this way.Emphasis on the funny - I'm not suggesting that Blair is poor choice because of this.
He gave me back the draft of speech number two. I went through it, page by page, and then found it had two extra pages. He had accidentally paper-clipped something to the bottom of my draft. What was this? I read. My eyes widened. My jaw dropped. This was no boring, bureaucratic jibber-jabber. Au contraire—it was a TOP SECRET/CODEWORD document of sizzling import. My little hands practically melted, just holding it.
The allegation that Blair worked against then-President Clinton's foreign policy from the inside is a bit more concerning...
Admiral Blair at no point told Wiranto to stop the militia operation, going the other way by inviting him to be his personal guest in Hawaii. Blair told Wiranto that the United States would initiate this new riot-control training for the Indonesian armed forces. This was quite significant, because it would be the first new US training program for the Indonesian military since 1992. Although State Department officials had been assured in writing that only police and no soldiers would be part of this training, Blair told Wiranto that, yes, soldiers could be included. So although Blair was sent in with the mission of telling Wiranto to shut the militias down, he did the opposite.
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Wow, not even in office one minute and already betrayals. I suppose I should have been more upset about Larry Summers, or all the Wall St bankers (who better to rebuild the house of cards than the people who built it in the first place), or Gates all getting cabinet positions, but, probably because the only time I've had a cop, or anyone, hold a weapon in my face for a sustained, or any, length of time, was during the APEC protests, primarily focused on the Indonesian military dictator, General Suharto, this really aggravated me.
I can't say I'm particularly surprised. This is why I'd never voted for a Democratic president before.
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) has more on Dennis Blair's sordid record when it comes to East Timor and Indonesia here http://etan.org/news/2008/12blair.htm
Yep - here Obama goes again - proving he is a NeoCon.
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