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There was enormous pressure on our law enforcement and our national security teams to try to deal with this, he said. And you know, its important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect. - Obama at today's news conference.
Why would anyone's supposed sanctimoniousness be considered important when measured against the larger faults of our national security teams having gone on a Thelma and Louise adventure and then lying to Congress about it? Does an expression of dismay or even concern make one sanctimonious?
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randys1
(16,286 posts)air force disbanded.
BUT, there is some truth in what Obama says here.
Early one weekday morning we watched the two tallest most important buildings in the world (maybe not the tallest but almost) come crashing to the ground, an UNTHINKABLE event, a surreal event that was difficult to believe it was so big, so horrific
And some of us reacted with greed (w, cheney, halliburton, etc), some of us reacted in fear and those same greedy bastards used our fear against us...
noise
(2,392 posts)Perhaps too much basking in CIA accountability could serve as a distraction to the intelligence community. But mainly replowing old ground is not productive. We need to move on for the good of the country.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)ancianita
(36,092 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)The BFEE is still running around destroying the planet, Clapper lied, the CIA spied and spied and got caught, 9/11 was the biggest intelligence failure in American history, 3000 people died that day...sanctimonious? What a strange thing to say imo.
I must be missing some context here.