2015 feels like a million years ago

Unfortunately these agencies that provide the daily brief have evolved to a state in which they believe that they tolerate presidents (the people) vs serve presidents (the people).

As a side note: Here, in the UK, we have something similar, written by the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, whose key members are the heads of Intelligence for the RAF, Army, and Navy, plus the Directors of the Foreign Intelligence Agency (MI6) and Domestic Security Service (M15). But this is where things get interesting. Copy #1, doesn't go direct to the Prime Minister; he gets Copy #2. Instead, #1 is taken, as inconspicuous as possible, to Buckingham Palace, and direct to the Private Office of the Queen. Although the Prime Minister has the vast majority of the political power, the Monarch is still head of state, and so protocols is such that she is as informed as our Prime Minister is. On top of that, Queen Elizabeth II has seen more Prime Ministers than any other Monarch in history. At 95+ years old, she should be slowing down a bit. But the other interesting thing about her getting Copy #1 is that, once a week, almost every week, the Prime Minister and Her Majesty meets for an hour, or so. No-one knows, since she began having those meetings, what is said, because there is just the two of them, with the meeting closed to even her Private Secretary, and the meetingis never, ever, recorded. Every Prime Minister since has rarely, if ever, mentioned what was said, and if perchance they did, suffice to say the diplomatic language of "we are not amused" is equal to "you bloody idiot; get your arse back here, now, and explain yourself ..." ... But, seriously speaking, in all her years on the throne, there is very little about the inside baseball of British politics she _doesn't_ know, and even more so when it comes our Armed Forces (which every service person swears an oath to), and our Nuclear Deterrence ... ... even Margaret Thatcher, during the height of the Falklands War, still met with her, especially as the Queen was a teenage girl during WWII, and has seen every conflict since. In fact Thatcher described her, after one such meeting, as "a very remarkable woman" ...

They’re all crooked.

Who benefited?

i don't know why this was recommended to me but i don't mind

2:25:25"we invested a lot" should have been "you (the taxpayer) invested a lot"

Corruption at its best........

WOW.

Algorithm

These people talk to much and need to go to prison

wickedness in high places

Hard to escape hell when you live like these guys

When does it start

Now I would add that the postwar period has been an almost unbroken string of failures up to the present day.

I'd like to trust the intelligence community, but there have been many times when they've done something for the better of the people. Which then turns out to be experiments on people. I hope that has changed and really would never know unless I was a part of it. But I'm not really interested in that.

Watched it all.

Liars running the show

JFK?

Luke Warme. I agree with you. If they did such an elegant, flawless job, why was it ultimately butchered so thoroughly?

This was an extremely eye opening briefing and wonderfully executed amalgam of the workday graphics

President training course

So filtered fearmongering for presidents...

Some comments here show a huge amount of cynicism about the people we entrust to keep us safe in our beds at night. So easy to be cynical about other people. While of course imagining your OWN thinking is clear, honest and thoughtful. These people have dedicated a lifetime of study to their fields. Why assume the worst about their motives and competence?

F. U. Brennan

Suppose our Intelligence Agencies did not exist?

What the hell is the PDB? I started from the middle...

All trhe introductions are such a waste of time.

No family allowed

Someone’s got Scottish is a great.

Here follow the reasons why I see following science as not being the right thing to do now: those promoting this concept either have a limited view or only want subordination from a wider angle! More and more Scientists find interactions with the Universe: these aspects are not defined the same way as most ground based logistics and require a higher more open common knowledge to be appreciated by the general public. This further step in knowledge may not deny feelings and intuitions and may not require to be followed but rather be accompanied as in going with the flow. This is saying that there is some sense when mentioning 'follow science' but both words have to adopt openly less control and more Universal Values!

A really classic democrat

One question Chamber of commerce was some of you flew back to America after your parents tour on spirit airlines and does NASA's satilite gather you here to give us wisdom spiritual Mana and the truth for American people. I want to thank you for all you've done to protect us heal us and raise us to power I feel as if you are God parents each one of you doing all you are allowed to love your children . Also does immaculate conception give you all a body to share each day created by the stained glass windows allowing warp stone from workplace to Heller N Homes? 1000 bodies with raylies scattering for trans born also?

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