Feb. 1, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
05:02
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Buchanan. | |
| Today I want to talk about Trump and his relationship to our intelligence community. | |
| He did not agree with the national assessment that was given by the DNI and the CIA. That's understandable because not all presidents agree with their intelligence community, but doesn't mean that the president was in any way trying to politicize the intelligence community. | |
| The DNI is an unnecessary bureau. | |
| It was a result of the CIA creating 9-11 and John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad and Elliott Abrams, all the neocons being involved in 9-11 and ironically now they're serving with Mr. | |
| Pompeo, who really doesn't understand why he's bringing in these incompetence. | |
| But nevertheless, these are the people who created 9-11 as a result of 9-11, which was a false war of terror. | |
| We created the DNI. So you've got to get rid of the DNI. The second part is the CIA has really been bloated. | |
| It's no longer in the work of human analysis, human prediction, and the ability to really manipulate and develop all kinds of characteristics that can influence a world leader. | |
| They are now trying to be in cyber command. | |
| But Cyber Command is taken over by a National Geospatial Agency, a new agency. | |
| Then we have the NRO, we have the NSA, we have the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps with their own intelligence. | |
| In total, we have 17 intelligence bureaus, all of which are really not fulfilling their function, all of which are redundant and bloating out our intelligence budget. | |
| We have to decrease it. | |
| There has to be someone who knows how to minimize it, how to organize it, and we don't have anybody there for that. | |
| Let's go to the key issues where Trump feels he's correct. | |
| Number one, North Korea. | |
| He will make an agreement with Kim Jong-un. | |
| The reason the CIA doesn't really understand what Trump is doing is because Trump is very personalized in his relationship with people. | |
| He gets the intuition. | |
| He gets the notion. | |
| He, in his own way, is his own best operative. | |
| He assesses what a person is about and knows how to cut the deal. | |
| So Kim Jong-un and he will have an agreement. | |
| There will not be a denuclearization because there really doesn't need to be. | |
| Almost every one of the countries we deal with is totally nuclearized, but it's totally not worth it. | |
| The second part, Iran, Trump is correct. | |
| There is a clear and present danger with Iran, but the CIA is also correct that they have not re-nuclearized their systems. | |
| Now, the reason why Trump is more correct is that Iran has really created a military presence all over the Middle East, which it did not have in the past. | |
| It's in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Yemen, and they are in effect not terrorist groups anymore, but they are The Iran Revolutionary Guard full military complements underneath General Soleimani. | |
| So in effect, Iran really is a world military power that is a presence that we have to deal with. | |
| I do not recommend that you try to take down the regime because John Bolton has no ability to take it down. | |
| There's no one within the CIA who's ever had experience in that. | |
| And my experience, having been in Iran for quite a while, said to me that there's different ways to approach it, but none of them have to do with the capabilities we have now. | |
| Let's talk now about Afghanistan. | |
| Afghanistan is the most interesting one of all because the war in Afghanistan was created by the very man who's now negotiating the peace treaty, Zalmi Khalazad. | |
| As I've told you before, Zalmay worked for me. | |
| He was on policy planning staff. | |
| He was a man who was born in Afghanistan, just like Ghani, Ashraf Ghani, his partner and friend who is now the president of Afghanistan. | |
| We have two Americans who are trained in America and trained in the American University in Beirut. | |
| Both are probably CIA operatives. | |
| But Zalmay has been a man who's created a series of disasters. | |
| He supported the Mujahideen. | |
| Then he supported the Taliban. | |
| Then when the Taliban failed, he then failed again and then came back as the ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
| Now he's in charge of getting rid of our troops in Afghanistan. | |
| The point of this discussion is very simple. | |
| Eisenhower once said, The CIA and our intelligence bureaus have created a legacy of ashes. | |
| I add that once you put garbage into a system, you're going to get garbage out of the system, and that includes our intelligence system. |
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