James Baker, former Sec of State for Reagan just gave Trump permission to dismantle

[politicaljunkie41910]

and restructure our entire Intelligence community. This nation is doomed for the next four years.

On Fareed Zakaria GPS, Baker was asked by Zakaria "...whether the attitude that Trump is taking, i.e. the willingness to avoid briefings, disparaging the Intel community, is this refreshing willingness to shake up the system or does it worry you?"


Baker responded: "Well I hope it's a willingness to shake up the system. Right now, so far it doesn't worry me because we don't know what's going to shake out there. But let me say this Fareed, when I was Secretary of State, I had the view at that time, that there was too many conflicting Intel entities, there was too much redundancy in it. Today we have 17 agencies and they're all to the same extent or another doing the same job. As part of the problem with our government, it's too big. We have too many people trying to do the same thing and it creates a lot of confusion and a lot of bureaucratic in-fighting. But when I left the office a long time ago now Fareed, 25 years ago, I was shocked to find out that we were spending $30B a year on Intel. I hate to think of what we might be spending today with 17 different agencies and I think it would be a healthy thing for a new administration to take a look at that and see if we're doing the best job in the best way."

While I might have the tendency to agree with some of what Baker said had the task fallen on anyone other than a Trump administration. If left up to Trump, his kids Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka would be deciding how big our Intel community should be. We saw that when it came to choosing whose hands to put his medical health in, he chose an incoherent hippie from the 60's. Trump has told us that he knows more than the Generals and putting him in charge of restructuring the Intel community scares the hell out of me.

[uponit7771]

1. Not just for next four years...

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump lacks intelligence

and apparently likes it that way.
Go figure.

[hollowdweller]

3. Baker is one of these people the media put up on a pedestal.

Seems like a lot of the GOP SOS's, I think because foreign policy used to be unquestioned mostly were put up even by neutral media as some sort of authority or expert. However far as I could see Baker has always been a partisan hack. The Bush family called him in to use his credibility to stop the Florida recount in 2000. That alone should tell you he's not pro democracy.

[Zoonart]

4. SURE

by all means... let's listen to the guy who helped steal the election for W.

[blm]

6. Baker deregulated the S&Ls as Reagan's Treasury Secretary - how did that work out?

American taxpayers were paying for that decision and the crimes that followed for two decades.

[brush]

7. He's the long-time Bush family consigliere/fixer, hardly impartial.

[yallerdawg]

5. This jackass is one of the lawyers who gave us Bush 2.0.

Now he supports dismantling our Intelligence Community?

This is getting worse and worse.