Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Thursday, June 04, 2009 6:01:16 PM
Apart from the negative impact that the President’s anti-torture, soft-on-terror and appeasement policies are having on the morale and intel gathering capabilities of the CIA, Leon Panetta’s leadership of the agency is very troubling. What troubles me is not so much Panetta’s lack of experience in the intelligence field-George H. W. Bush had no experience when he became top spy-but from signs given on the day of Panetta’s birth and the day he was sworn in as Director. Consider this:
Panetta was born during the Great Depression on June 28, 1938 and was sworn into office on February 13, 2009 the first Friday the 13th of this year-the day when Obama’s disastrous pork laden stimulus bill was passed in the Senate.
As Panetta's agency is at the forefront on the Global War on Terror and keeping America safe from jihadi attacks his birth date seems especially ominous of a coming intelligence and security breakdown for several reasons:
Panetta was born on the 24th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the murder in Serbia that triggered World War I (see note 1).
The day of his birth was 94 days or 13 weeks away from the signing of the ill-fated Munich Pact where Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain into believing that an historic breakthrough for peace was achieved when in fact it set the stage for World War II (see note 2).
The day of Panetta's swearing in as CIA Chief was six days from Biden’s ominous trip to Munich and less than 24 hours from the crash of Flight 3407 which took the life of 9/11 widow Beverly Eckert who met with Obama several days before (see BIDEN DOES MUNICH 2009
and OMINOUS MEETING AT WHITE HOUSE WITH 9/11 WIDOW ).
Chamberlain’s Munich debacle, Biden’s feeble speech in Munich, the deaths of Ferdinand and Beverly Eckert are not signs that inspire confidence or hope in Panneta or this administration. The job done by the CIA in the post-911 era under Tenet, Goss and Hayden went against the odds in keeping us safe for seven years and was admirable; but that was during an administration that gave the highest priority to fighting our enemies and winning the War on Terror. That same commitment to victory is now gone from the White House having retired with Bush and Cheney as the War on Terror has given way to other priorities such as Global Warming, nationalizing healthcare, spreading wealth and appeasing Islam.
Could it be that we are at the start of another disastrous intelligence failure or a crippling demoralization of the CIA similar to what happened in the 1970s with the Church Committee? What Henry Kissinger said at the time about Church’s dangerous naivety could be equally applied to Barack Obama that it is a fantasy that “tranquility can be achieved by an abstract purity of motive for which history offers no examples.” Frank Church who came to the conclusion that America’s strategy and tactics in fighting the Cold War were dangerously wrong once said that America shouldn’t “fight fire with fire and evil with evil.” Several years later Jimmy Carter, Obama’s precursor in weakness and a*peasement in conducting foreign affairs, echoing Church said in a speech criticizing our “inordinate fear of Communism” that “fire should be fought with water,” in dealing with enemies-enemies who wanted to bury us. Unfortunately for Carter the water he used to to fight fire quickly vaporized when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and Khomenie seized our embassy in Tehran-the opening salvo in radical Islam‘s war on America. On the day of his duel with D*ck Cheney Obama sounding like Carter said of Bush’s post-9/11 policies that “hasty decisions were made based upon fear rather than foresight” in preventing another terror attack. Church, Carter, Obama, Panetta and others on the Left are different faces of the same immaturity and amateurness in dealing with the brutal realities of a predatory world where the only law our enemies observe is that of the jungle.
But this brings me back to D*ck Cheney who during the Church hearings worked for Nixon and Ford when William Colby was CIA Chief. In fact Colby who was chief for three years and presided over the gutting of his agency by Church-a major factor contributing to the 9/11 event-left office on January 30, 1976 the day Chief of Staff Cheney was celebrating his 35th birthday (see note 3). Cheney was there watching with anxiety as the CIA was being decimated and putting us in harms way. Now 33 years later and drawing on his vast experience Cheney is sounding the alarm that the past may be repeating itself with a new President who like Carter is clearly unfit to command and a CIA Chief with a leftist world view incompatible with the awesome responsibilities of his office.
NOTES
1. Serb nationalist Gavino Princip shot and killed Ferdinand on June 28, 1914.
2. Panetta who was sworn into office on the 13th day of February was born 13 weeks or 94 days before the signing of the Hitler-Chamberlain Munich Pact. Moreover, 94 is a variant of the number 13 (9+4=13) and Chamberlain was 195 days into his 69th year when he signed the Pact with Hitler. What is significant about 195 is that it‘s a multiple of 13 15 times, hence:
March 18, 1938 (Chamberlain’s 69th birthday) to September 30, 1938 (signing of the Munich Pact)=195 days.
13x15=195
And lastly when we translate the initials CIA into their numerical equivalents we get a value 13, hence:
CIA
391=13*
*Using the standard English numerological system where A to H=1 to 9, I to R=1 to 9 and S to Z=1 to 8.
3. See the 9/11 Commission Report.