Editor’s Note: Yep. it is getting this nuts.

– Vic

Failure to Communicate

Author’s note: I was bemused yesterday when I heard the former DHS Director remark in an aside that the FBI Director (and those of National Intelligence, the CIA and the NSA) didn’t share with him or his intelligence folks for months during the summer of 2016 the facts behind the Russian hacking of the nation’s voting machinery infrastructure and the DNC.

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When this former Obama administration DHS chief said there were “glitches in communication” between the FBI and DHS, I stifled a wry smile at yet another US intelligence community failure to share. It was reminiscent of the FBI’s failure to share key pre 9-11 information regarding 9-11 plotters aircraft simulator training with the rest of the IC. This then cued my inner Strother Martin’s Cool Hand Luke character Captain.

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What we’ve got here is failure to communicate
Some departments like DHS they just couldn’t reach
So, we get what we heard here yesterday
Which is the way FBI wanted it
Well, it still doesn’t get it
Sixteen years after 9-11
I don’t like it any more than DHS
But everyone else couldn’t care less

Look, our voting machinery was under attack
But for months DHS was not told jack
Were Comey’s hands tied
Or was he just playing both sides

And the cable news war drones on with undiminished snide
For the love of country, hooray for our side
News cycle swept last week’s horror aside
But bloody hands, time won’t hide
They’ll be revealed after a surprise mass homicide
And history says time is not on our side

We’ll likely wear black armbands
When they attack our country, man
Then everybody’ll be fightin’
For our promised land

Meanwhile while we wait, cable news will be selling soldier stories like produce in a human grocery store. These tales ain’t that fresh, just recycled tropes of past glories.

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