Ray McGovern: Obama Should Read WikiLeaks Docs

http://www.truth-out.org/ray-mcgovern-obama-should-read-wikileaks-docs66524

Monday 03 January 2011

by: Ray McGovern | Consortium News | Op-Ed

Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the futility of his Afghan War strategy.

For instance, if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has hidden from him Ambassador Karl Eikenberry’s cables from Kabul, he might wish to search out KABUL 001892 of July 13, 2009, in which Eikenberry reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is “unable to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state building.”

And, while he’s at it, he should dig out the September 2009 cable from the U.S. Ambassador in Pakistan, Anne Patterson, in which she warns: “There is no chance that Pakistan will view enhanced assistance … as sufficient compensation for abandoning support to these groups in Pakistan.”

The same conclusion is contained in the recent National Intelligence Estimates on Afghanistan and Pakistan. My advice to Obama would be: Don’t let anyone gist them for you; read at least the Key Judgments.

<Read the rest from the link. Good read, indeed....>

And lose a weak and insubstantial claim to the slightest amount of plausible deniability?

- Surely you jest!

K&R

"hiding" documents from the POTUS is stupid. More pot stirring.

The pot-stirring was EARNED.
Granted, the previous administration did much more to earn it than the current administration. But Bush's moles are planted everywhere.

It is not always a pleasant thing, but knowing what is and what isn't is very important when making life and death decisions.

PS: Ray McGovern is TOPS!