{"id":196783,"date":"2021-03-08T06:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T06:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:28:30","slug":"an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#An intel &#8216;bombshell&#8217; that wasn&#8217;t and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2811efb944d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2811efb944d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/#Foreign_desk_An_Intel_%E2%80%98Bombshell_That_Wasnt\" >Foreign desk: An Intel \u2018Bombshell\u2019 That Wasn\u2019t<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Why_Is_Biden_Dodging_Media\" >Conservative: Why Is Biden Dodging Media?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/#Immigration_watch_Joes_Open-Borders_Flop\" >Immigration watch: Joe\u2019s Open-Borders Flop<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_DC_Sacrificed_to_Political_Theater\" >From the right: DC Sacrificed to Political Theater<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/an-intel-bombshell-that-wasnt-and-other-commentary\/#Faith_beat_Theology_Against_the_Woke_Mobs\" >Faith beat: Theology Against the Woke Mobs<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#An intel &#8216;bombshell&#8217; that wasn&#8217;t and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/saudi-arabia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foreign_desk_An_Intel_%E2%80%98Bombshell_That_Wasnt\"><\/span>Foreign desk: An Intel \u2018Bombshell\u2019 That Wasn\u2019t<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At Tablet, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/khashoggi-murder-report-dud\">Eli Lake exposes<\/a> the emptiness of Team Biden\u2019s much-ballyhooed\u00a0release of\u00a0US intel blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman \u201cfor ordering the operation that ended in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.\u201d It\u2019s based overwhelmingly on a classified report conducted soon after the fact, in October 2018 \u2014 which, like the new one, \u201calso lacked hard proof of the crown prince\u2019s role in Khashoggi\u2019s murder.\u201d \u00adCareer civil servant Kirsten Fontenrose, a top National Security Council staffer then, calls the assessment \u201can abuse of the intelligence community\u2019s power\u201d used in a bid to force then-President Donald Trump\u2019s hand. Yes, Lake notes, MBS\u2019 top aides did the deed, but \u201cthe Khashoggi killing has many hallmarks of an attempted kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing gone wrong.\u201d So why push this distorted intel? Well, for one thing, President Biden wants to get closer to Iran, the Saudis\u2019 arch-nemesis; for another,\u00a0the CIA resents how MBS sidelined its longtime friend, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, in becoming heir to the throne. In other words, it\u2019s politics all the way down.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Why_Is_Biden_Dodging_Media\"><\/span>Conservative: Why Is Biden Dodging Media?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In \u201cmore than six weeks since\u201d taking office, President Biden \u201chas yet to hold a press conference during a pandemic that has claimed more than 107,000 lives since his inauguration,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/541580-why-is-joe-biden-dodging-the-public-and-the-press\">notes Joe Concha at The Hill<\/a>. And \u201cthe decision by his team to limit his interactions with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, while barely <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing outside the White House to address the concerns of the American people, is wearing thin.\u201d After his staff cut the feed as soon as he offered to take questions at a recent event, Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged on when the president would hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> conference. There is also no sign of \u201ca speech to a joint session of Congress, traditionally given within a few days of any modern president taking office.\u201d People are noticing: The commander in chief\u00a0dropped 22 points among independents in a Monmouth poll at what is \u201csupposed to be the political-honeymoon stage of Biden\u2019s presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Immigration_watch_Joes_Open-Borders_Flop\"><\/span>Immigration watch: Joe\u2019s Open-Borders Flop<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s plan to \u201csweep illegal immigrants and asylum into the American system with scarce thought for potential consequences\u201d is \u00addecidedly unpopular, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/topic\/not-neanderthal-stop-democrats-from-dissolving-border\/\">reports William Murchison at Spectator USA<\/a>. Texas in particular, with its 1,254-mile Mexican border, knows the benefits and \u201cchallenges that any immigration policy brings.\u201d And it\u2019s telling that \u201cneither Anglo nor Hispanic Texans yearn to make the southern border disappear.\u201d Instead, they wonder\u00a0why the Biden administration can\u2019t seem to \u201cget through its thick skull the notion that you can\u2019t just let into America everyone who, on whatever ground, wants to come.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_DC_Sacrificed_to_Political_Theater\"><\/span>From the right: DC Sacrificed to Political Theater<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A large National Guard contingent has occupied the nation\u2019s capital for more than eight weeks \u2014 but not to deter \u201crising far-right militias, ready to strike at any moment,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/05\/the-capitol-police-chief-and-her-democratic-bosses-are-lying-to-you-all-to-hold-our-capital-hostage\/\">snarks The Federalist\u2019s Christopher Bedford<\/a>. It\u2019s because on Jan. 6,\u00a0a Capitol Police force \u201chobbled by its leadership\u2019s poor training regimens, nearly nonexistent fitness standards and fecklessness in the face of crisis, was incapable of protecting the building or even shutting the big doors on time.\u201d Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman \u201cis perfectly content to use her own men and women as political pawns\u201d for her Democratic bosses\u2019 attempts \u201cto spread fear and distrust against the half of the country that disagrees\u201d with the left. But the security operations are clearly not about protecting against any real threat. \u201cWhat matters is the narrative,\u201d even if it means turning DC into \u201ca great big theater.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Faith_beat_Theology_Against_the_Woke_Mobs\"><\/span>Faith beat: Theology Against the Woke Mobs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Why did ousted New York Times reporter Donald McNeil refuse under intense pressure to apologize for an incident an internal Times probe had already cleared him of? Perhaps\u00a0because \u201che had the moral formation of a Catholic school\u201d education, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/03\/what-separates-donald-mcneil-from-the-woke-mobsters\/\">muses National Review\u2019s Michael Brendan Dougherty<\/a>. That formation carefully distinguishes various sins and offers a \u201csupple understanding of duty and con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, as well as the personal and social need for mercy\u201d \u2014 that is to say, a rock-solid defense against woke terror. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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