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Good job Barry.... ::)
On his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the President appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, from an agency employee also at the burger restaurant.
"So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial..." Obama said, after the worker mentioned his employer, according to a video of the event.
"We work with, uh, satellite imagery," the worker, Walter replied.
A POLITICO reader, BV, caught the exchange, which starts around 5:45 on this C-SPAN video.
The transcript:
Obama: What do you do Walter?
Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that?
Walter: About six years
Obama: Yea?
Walter: Yes.
Obama: You like it?
Walter: I do, keeps me...
Obama: So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial...uh...
Walter: Uh, we work with, uh, satellite imagery..
Obama: Right
Walter: [unintelligible] ...support systems, so...
Obama: Sounds like good work.
Walter: Enjoy the weekend.
Obama: Appreciate it.
According to the Defense Department:
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.
NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term "geospatial intelligence" means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.
Guess they're not getting much airtime in the President's Daily Brief
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You expect differently?
There's a fucking million stupid agencies in the Government.
There's no way you can keep up with them... Did you know that most people didn't know about this?
Including most congressmen?
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i can't fault him too much on this. there are a ton of agencies, sub-agencies, contractors etc. The acronyms are in abundance.
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can't say I care about this one lol...
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government=way too big
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Yes he should know. I wouldn't expect the average person on the street to know, but the average person on the street doesn't have access to nuclear weapons.
But what the hey. This is all on-the-job training. :-\
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You expect differently?
There's a fucking million stupid agencies in the Government.
There's no way you can keep up with them... Did you know that most people didn't know about this?
Including most congressmen?
CONGRESS does not know what color underwear they are wearing...
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For my 1,000th post= Obama doesn't know about what intelligence agencies exist in his own government and thats ok.
But, Sarah Palin not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is= She's an idiot.
::)
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He's the friggen President.
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just curious
has anyone here ever heard of it before
I haven't
I'd rather have Obama working on the massive bag of flaming dog crap that was handed to him rather than have him sitting in the White House memorizing the office directory
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This is relevant "news" as much as what brand of socks Obama is wearing. Only a moron would think this was any kind of "issue" at all.
Keep trying. Perhaps one day you can come up with something that actually has substance behind it.
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just curious
has anyone here ever heard of it before
I haven't
I'd rather have Obama working on the massive bag of flaming dog crap that was handed to him rather than have him sitting in the White House memorizing the office directory
This guy is the President...he gets briefed by these guys. Barry doesn't care because its about hope and change and wasting tax payers dollars...and Yeah I've heard of em.
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This guy is the President...he gets briefed by these guys. Barry doesn't care because its about hope and change and wasting tax payers dollars...and Yeah I've heard of em.
you have knowledge that Obama has been briefed by National Geospatial Intelligence Agency?
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Yeah..Barry gets briefed every morning. In that brief is stuff from all our intel agencies. If a SAT took a picture of it, thats the guys who deal with it and send it up. One of my bosses at Leavenworth was the military head of the agency in the late 90's early 2000's. Its usually an Engineer Senior COL. No big mystery, unless ur Barry the Jackass.
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Yeah..Barry gets briefed every morning. In that brief is stuff from all our intel agencies. If a SAT took a picture of it, thats the guys who deal with it and send it up. One of my bosses at Leavenworth was the military head of the agency in the late 90's early 2000's. Its usually an Engineer Senior COL. No big mystery, unless ur Barry the Jackass.
are you sure they dont report to higher ups in u.s. intel?
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Yeah..Barry gets briefed every morning. In that brief is stuff from all our intel agencies. If a SAT took a picture of it, thats the guys who deal with it and send it up. One of my bosses at Leavenworth was the military head of the agency in the late 90's early 2000's. Its usually an Engineer Senior COL. No big mystery, unless ur Barry the Jackass.
You are really out there man... He sees photos, gets briefed on situations, not on who analyzed it or what agency took the photo.
That's ridiculous logic.
I work in a fortune 50 company and I'm involved in pretty much every aspect of the operation due to my job function and I'm still learning different departments I didn't know existed... I've been here for 2 and 1/2 years.
You are looking like a fool by going down this course.
Are you saying you know what the President of the United States' security briefing looks like?
You've got THAT clearance? Really?
If you say so.
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Um....HES THE FUCKING PRESIDENT......I would hope he knows who the hell provides his Intel...and yeah since my Boss had a pic with both Clinton and Bush..I imagine the President should have heard of it..just not this president. I imagine because defending this country comes second to making sure Black Panther's get off and more hope and change BS while the country tanks. Besides isn't he supposedf to be the greatest Barry Obama ever..the most smartest super Lib in the history of most smartest super smart super libs....Oh and it goes without saying that if this was Bush...U lib douchbags would be flipping out, being as this agency is only one of 16 Intel agencies and we're in two wars with major problems in Korea as well. No big deal....good job Barry
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Barry should just print some more money to get out of this one, its working so far. Right?
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Um....HES THE FUCKING PRESIDENT......I would hope he knows who the hell provides his Intel...and yeah since my Boss had a pic with both Clinton and Bush..I imagine the President should have heard of it..just not this president. I imagine because defending this country comes second to making sure Black Panther's get off and more hope and change BS while the country tanks. Besides isn't he supposedf to be the greatest Barry Obama ever..the most smartest super Lib in the history of most smartest super smart super libs....Oh and it goes without saying that if this was Bush...U lib douchbags would be flipping out, being as this agency is only one of 16 Intel agencies and we're in two wars with major problems in Korea as well. No big deal....good job Barry
So you ARE saying that you know what the President's brief looks like right?
You have that knowledge?
I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying.
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For my 1,000th post= Obama doesn't know about what intelligence agencies exist in his own government and thats ok.
But, Sarah Palin not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is= She's an idiot.
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dude, that was a major topic. I'm lost at how anyone missed that unless they're someone who didn't give a shit about anything political at the time. For anyone who was politically involved, that was a bit hard to miss... You would have had to been in a coma to miss that transistion in policy. Palin was someone who was supposed to be politically involved at the time. I think that's worse than not knowing about a few people who interpret sat pics. This is apples and oranges "bigtime"...
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Um....HES THE FUCKING PRESIDENT......I would hope he knows who the hell provides his Intel...and yeah since my Boss had a pic with both Clinton and Bush..I imagine the President should have heard of it..just not this president. I imagine because defending this country comes second to making sure Black Panther's get off and more hope and change BS while the country tanks. Besides isn't he supposedf to be the greatest Barry Obama ever..the most smartest super Lib in the history of most smartest super smart super libs....Oh and it goes without saying that if this was Bush...U lib douchbags would be flipping out, being as this agency is only one of 16 Intel agencies and we're in two wars with major problems in Korea as well. No big deal....good job Barry
Do you think Bush had more of a clue 5 months into his presidency than Obama? Just curious :)
lib lib lib lib lib, you're starting to sound like a dittohead lol...
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dude, that was a major topic. I'm lost at how anyone missed that unless they're someone who didn't give a shit about anything political at the time. For anyone who was politically involved, that was a bit hard to miss... You would have had to been in a coma to miss that transistion in policy. Palin was someone who was supposed to be politically involved at the time. I think that's worse than not knowing about a few people who interpret sat pics. This is apples and oranges "bigtime"...
Hugo, with all due respect you are 1000% wrong on this. I know about politics and follow politics, and until that interview I had never heard of the term "Bush Doctrine". In fact, there was no specific definition and the question was stupid. Can you define what it is? ( Without doing a google search and rounding up some subjective meaning concocted by a journalist or political commentator) If you asked 50 people, you would get 50 answers. I find it a lot more distressing that the commander and chief doesn't even recognize the existance of an intelligence agency that briefs him every morning. Sorry- thats just me.
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BUSH was the president and didn't know about the non-existence of WMD's in Iaq.
I mean really guys. So the fuck what if Obama didn't know the exacts of some obscure Government agency. That's why he has an administration.
What are you gonna do next challenge him to know every name of every senior staffer in congress because he's president?
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But, Sarah Palin not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is= She's an idiot.
right on brother
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BUSH was the president and didn't know about the non-existence of WMD's in Iaq.
I mean really guys. So the fuck what if Obama didn't know the exacts of some obscure Government agency. That's why he has an administration.
What are you gonna do next challenge him to know every name of every senior staffer in congress because he's president?
Considering these are the guys who are giving him the Intel on nKorea right now...I'd think he should know. This isn't two dudes looking at CCTV...these guys run our sat intel....
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Considering these are the guys who are giving him the Intel on nKorea right now...I'd think he should know. This isn't two dudes looking at CCTV...these guys run our sat intel....
Yes they run it and give the findings to the DI (or who ever it is) by way of who knows how many, who then briefs the president.
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Um....HES THE FUCKING PRESIDENT......I would hope he knows who the hell provides his Intel...and yeah since my Boss had a pic with both Clinton and Bush..I imagine the President should have heard of it..just not this president. I imagine because defending this country comes second to making sure Black Panther's get off and more hope and change BS while the country tanks. Besides isn't he supposedf to be the greatest Barry Obama ever..the most smartest super Lib in the history of most smartest super smart super libs....Oh and it goes without saying that if this was Bush...U lib douchbags would be flipping out, being as this agency is only one of 16 Intel agencies and we're in two wars with major problems in Korea as well. No big deal....good job Barry
So you ARE saying that you know what the President's brief looks like right?
You have that knowledge?
I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying.
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Should Obama know the name of most agencies? IMO, yes.
Did this make him look a bit out of the loop? Yes.
Is it a major mistake? Imo, definitely no.
Is it worthy of all this drama? No.
If there's all this drama and upset emotion on such a relative non issue -Then What should we do if/when Obama screws up for real?
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So you ARE saying that you know what the President's brief looks like right?
You have that knowledge?
I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying.
Ah..yeah..why is this rocket science to u.....U can actually find the cover sheet to that daily intel brief online. They published it after Obama got in. They've mentioned it numerous times...and as I said before an old boss was head that organization, on the military side of it. Ur mincing words as usual. Barry doesn't know his intel organizations..Barry is a fucking retard.
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dude, that was a major topic. I'm lost at how anyone missed that unless they're someone who didn't give a shit about anything political at the time. For anyone who was politically involved, that was a bit hard to miss... You would have had to been in a coma to miss that transistion in policy. Palin was someone who was supposed to be politically involved at the time. I think that's worse than not knowing about a few people who interpret sat pics. This is apples and oranges "bigtime"...
No it wasn't a major topic (at least not by that name). I don't think I had ever heard even a roundtable discussion on a Sunday morning about "the Bush Doctrine" before that dumb question. It was clearly one of those carefully planned "gotcha" questions.
No excuse for the president not to know what all of his agencies are. Like HH said, he gets briefed every day. Sounds like he needs to pay a little closer attention to his work.
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Should Obama know the name of most agencies? IMO, yes.
Did this make him look a bit out of the loop? Yes.
Is it a major mistake? Imo, definitely no.
Is it worthy of all this drama? No.
If there's all this drama and upset emotion on such a relative non issue -Then What should we do if/when Obama screws up for real?
Where's the drama and emotion? He's just being criticized.
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Ah..yeah..why is this rocket science to u.....U can actually find the cover sheet to that daily intel brief online. They published it after Obama got in. They've mentioned it numerous times...and as I said before an old boss was head that organization, on the military side of it. Ur mincing words as usual. Barry doesn't know his intel organizations..Barry is a fucking retard.
Can you show me a photo of this cover sheet?
You believe the cover sheet has all of the agencies listed? You believe all of the little groups are credited in the briefing?
Just making sure I understand what you're saying... You're also saying you DO know what each briefing looks like?
Correct?
I just need a few yes or no answers from you if you don't mind.
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Hey Tu....do ur own google search. Barry sits down every day..every day and is briefed. I'm sorry if this is foreign to u....Ur idiotic attempt to justify Barry not knowing who the fuck works for him, especially while we're at war is typical of libs.
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Hey Tu....do ur own google search. Barry sits down every day..every day and is briefed. I'm sorry if this is foreign to u....Ur idiotic attempt to justify Barry not knowing who the fuck works for him, especially while we're at war is typical of libs.
I did a google search and came up with nothing, which is why I asked you to produce this document you claim you can.
I couldn't find it... please one up me and show me you can.
This is not a war... sorry bro. This is a police action, just like Vietnam. We haven't had a war since 1991, not a real one.
This "attempt" as you put it is just simple logic... You haven't even answered my question. You keep avoiding it, which is fine... I get that you don't really have an answer or you wouldn't like to tell the truth about it.
I can read between the lines.
For you to think I'm a "lib" as you put it is ridiculous... What you're doing is not even about conservative vs. liberal, you're just plainly hating on someone for no good reason.
Sad really.
Continue to avoid my questions though... You should because you know that whatever answer you give will make you look pathetic.
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Hey Tu....do ur own google search. Barry sits down every day..every day and is briefed. I'm sorry if this is foreign to u....Ur idiotic attempt to justify Barry not knowing who the fuck works for him, especially while we're at war is typical of libs.
You are just an idiot for thinking he should know. That is what his advisors are for. Obama has other things more important than memorizing the entire alphabet soup of sub divisions within the government.
One thing we are all aware of is that YOU work for him. So stop trying to align yourself on a level of status where you can call him by his first name. You look like an idiot doing so. Unlike "Barry" who doesn't even know you exist, despite employing you.
Now where is this document?