I finished reading Michael Morell’s book The Great War of Our Time: (Islamic)Terrorism. Morell for the past 15 years was the top man at the CIA with four different politically appointed bosses.
He wrote the book to clear his name from the many known failings of the agency. He failed.
George Bush was blamed by the rabid Democrats for the WMD intelligence prior to the Iraq War II. The CIA provided all the wrong information due to their lack of spies on the ground. Bush's other intelligence sources had the same wrong information.
The Democrat Party is really to blame; Democrats and their insider allies are responsible for the countless leaks of top secret information, especially to the NYTimes, with the names of American spies and informants, making the jobs of spy impossible to fill with competent humans.
Morell tries to cover up the CIA’s complicity in the Benghazi debacle. He makes it worse. He clearly lied to Congress to protect the State Department and Hillary. Even worse he leaks the fact that the CIA military staff was two block away from the American Embassy in Benghazi and yet took an hour to get there after the danger became apparent.
Morell never explains why the vast arsenal of weapons in Libya, which were known to every government and terrorist, were left in plain sight. The CIA made no effort to hide or destroy a vast array of weapons sitting in the open.
Morell, because his book was censored by the CIA has a single throw away affirmation about Israel ‘our closest ally’ and Obama ‘brilliant and friendly in private’. Otherwise in a 384 page book about terrorism, he never mentions Israel again. The CIA like the State Department and the current White House is run by Jew haters.
Morell loved George W. Bush whom he saw nearly every day of Bush’s first year in office and frequently thereafter. Morell says Bush was kind, decisive and wise. Things all intelligent people have known.
Obama, on the other hand is completely ignored by Morell after the day following Obama’s election when Obama rejected Morell’s intelligence briefing because Obama’s sidekicks couldn’t be in the room. From other sources, I know Obama rarely got daily intelligence briefings. Morell never mentions this. It confirms what I know about Obama; he is uneducated, has below average intelligence, is innumerate and is incurious. Obama’s main interest in the world is sports including golf. Morell is an avid golfer and was often physically present with Obama, but was never invited to play golf with him.
Overall, the CIA viewed from the top ranking insider is incompetent and highly political.