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3. The President makes the decision about what, if anything, should be done about it. The President can ignore the intelligence and even the NSC in making that determination.
2. The National Security Council takes that assessment and combines it with an understanding of our vulnerabilities and interests to derive an assessment of risk. They also make policy recommendations about how to address that risk.
1. The IC analyzes and warns about threats, including how serious and imminent they are. This is their main job. Note these assessments are just about what the threat actor wants to and can do.
Does the intelligence community warn of imminent threats? After speaking with my students, I’ve decided to offer clarification of the threat warming process.
Ideology:
1. How the world should be.
2. Why it isn’t and who is to blame
3. What is to be done
Cassandras:
1. They say 1-3
2. They mean 1-3
3. The base will back 3
In my view, you’ve made a profound insight with the “Cassandra song”, in which you identify the basics of the Cassandras’ argument. It strikes me that it’s related to the base argument of an ideology.
As a past Cassandra on another issue — Bin Ladin and al-Qa’ida — I found this article insightful on every level: the base argument made by Cassandras, that they were able to see that there was a pattern in the noise and distraction, why they could see it, and why they are ignored is familiar.
From a friend — Under UCMJ, Article 107 - anything from dishonorable discharge to forfeiture of all pay and allowances and/or confinement up to five years.
Re Mark Kelly, I’m watching A Few Good Men and it got me wondering, what IS the penalty for a bringing false accusation against a senior officer?
Agree 100%
Socialism is not Communism. Democratic socialism is not “pure” socialism. Crack a book, or stop supporting lies for your agenda, whatever that is.
Republicans said decades ago that you can’t help everyone, including the “12%” who did not have insurance. They haven’t changed. Why think they will change now?
This is what I see from my students. ChatGPT can help research, it is not research.
The hard ones are trusting yourself when the hand-picked lawyer for the senior person — often the President in our case— says its legal but you are pretty sure it isn’t.
I worked for the CIA. Counterterrorism. I disobeyed illegal orders. Anyone else?
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
I’ve been there too, for a different reason. Give yourself grace. It’s ok to reset, to just be.
That’s nice re Democratic strategy Lawrence O’Donnell, but meanwhile I will not have health insurance next year.
Thank you! I look forward to these.
Hegseth’s speech today is one more indication they plan to invade other countries and declare martial law in our own. Why not comply with the laws of war? To invade. Why practice in cities? Why emphasize “brutality”? Etc etc.
It’s hard to know for sure, but I think we need to focus on getting our sense of community back, physically and inclusively. We can be divided when we don’t interact enough
No lol
welcome to The Resistance,
*checks notes*
*sighs*
*weeps gently*
...michael eisner
Cancelled Disney+ today. I love the content but love my country more. I did not defend my country from terrorists for this.
My community here in Tampa FL is St. Clement’s Episcopal Church. stclement.net Traditional liturgy emphasizing Gods love and how we should treat one another accordingly. Our new Diversity group starts this week.
Friends it is so essential to find your people. Hang out as much as possible with people who have decent values, who do their best to be kind You should have a community where you will be welcomed just as you are. And where your soul will be nourished. My community’s doors are open.❤️
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
CNN has made the editorial decision to keep playing this clip on air for guests making sure they get the full context of what Kimmel said.
Good.
