Dereliction of Duty: Obama and the WikiLeaks Train Wreck
"While it is debatable whether President Obama should be blamed for the lapses that led to the unprecedented compromise of massive amounts of classified information to the WikiLeaks organization, it is entirely appropriate to hold him accountable for the subsequent performance of his administration. But as with other threats and crises during his presidency, Mr. Obama and his team have dithered rather than act decisively, and again demonstrated they have little idea of how to the defend America.
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder made the observation that the theft of hundreds of thousands of classified files and their ongoing disclosure by WikiLeaks is “ultimately not helpful in any way.” To this deeply perceptive assessment, Mr. Holder added that “I authorized just last week a number of things to be done so that we can, hopefully, get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable as they should be.”
Just last week?
It is worth stepping back through the sequence of events in this case to see just how inattentive President Obama and his team have been as this slow-moving train-wreck has impacted our national security and compromised U.S. information sources and partners around the globe."
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"But, as with every other crisis of his administration, the serial assault on U.S. security by WikiLeaks has been met by a President Obama who appears unable to grasp the seriousness of the threat or how to marshal the tools at his disposal for our defense. Rather than a commander-in-chief, we have a litigator-in-chief—and not a particularly speedy one at that.
America finds itself with a president transmitting a dangerous signal of weakness and incompetence in a world where our adversaries become emboldened by American weakness, whether perceived or real.
The young senator who entered the Oval Office with no experience to be commander in chief has failed to learn on the job, and dangerous foreign threats draw ever nearer."
(Christian Whiton is a former U.S. State Department senior adviser and is a principal at D.C International Advisory. The author of this link)
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