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“It isn’t the attention that he seeks, it’s that there is this nagging suspicion that the RNC isn’t being run as effectively as it should be,” says another political consultant, who is under contract to the RNC. “We’re raising good money, but you wonder if it’s being spent effectively to prepare for the coming two election cycles.”
Panetta Dread
On December 30, seven CIA employees and/or contractors were murdered by a suicide bomber, who was allowed to enter Forward Operating Base Chapman, a U.S. compound in the Afghan province of Khost near the Pakistan border. The facility is said by intelligence sources to be a launching point for covert activities against the Taliban, as well as al Qaeda.
The terrorist attack, which served as the second-largest loss of life of CIA assets in the agency’s history, will no doubt further erode the CIA employees’ confidence in CIA director Leon Panetta. “He wasn’t a popular pick when he came in, and he’s less popular now than was he was then,” says a current CIA employee. “On a level of one to ten, I’d put morale at about a four, and dropping.”
Panetta, according to other intelligence agency staffers, has, in the view of employees, failed to back them up in the ongoing war of words over use of enhanced interrogation techniques, in hearings before Congress, and with the powers that be in the White House that seem dismissive of the agency.
“The fact that we are being hung out to dry on the failed [Christmas Day] terrorist attack is just the latest issue we’ve had to deal with,” says the source. “Isn’t it funny that for about six or so years, no major terrorist attacks, lots of information sharing, and then we get a new administration and new orders and new ways of doing business and it’s all our fault. And we have a boss who probably will just let us take the fall.”
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Brian Walsh | 2.27.10 @ 6:00PM
As the Communications Director for the NRSC, I take exception to a number of things written above because they are flat out inaccurate. First, I don't who you are claiming as "sources inside the NRSC" but I know for a fact that no one from the Spectator spoke with anyone at our organization. Frankly, it's disappointing that you did not because your statements about the MA Senate race would have been easily disproven. I would direct your attention for example to this January 21st story in Politico that reports on the NRSC's role in Massachusetts -
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....31639.html
In fact, both the NRSC and the RNC not only spent money in this race, but contributed important manpower and other resources. Of course, the lion's share of the credit rightfully goes to Scott Brown who was a great candidate and ran a great race, but to report to your readers that the NRSC was not involved is inaccurate.
In that same vein of inaccurate reporting, you write about anti-Rubio videos "backed by staff for the NRSC." I don't have any idea what videos you're referring to but can say publicly that NRSC staff have had no involvement with any such videos.
Again, had anyone at the Spectator contacted us prior to posting this, I would have been happy to address it. It's my hope that you will quickly correct this inaccurate item and call or email us in the future when writing about the NRSC. Thank you.
Regards,
Brian Walsh
Alan Brooks| 2.28.10 @ 1:26AM
Now we know why Reagan Democrats exist. You people have inflated images of yourselves as hotshots;
"the NRSC thought Brown would lose..."
Well, it IS Massachusetts, not SC. And Walsh says different.
Prima Donnas all.
It appears Obama's ego is less inflated than you people and your egos; you still wonder why he beat you in '08??
He is sure to be re-elected, as Clinton was. And Obama's personal morality is higher than Clinton's.
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