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I've been in bureaucracies, even at the top of one, and I promise you I never knew what was going on any farther down than the next two levels. That was on purpose. To become involved in the day to day operations is micro-management and nobody should want that.
What you're expecting him to do, and holding him accountable for not doing so, is akin to expecting an Army theater Commander to know right off the cuff what each of his squads are doing.
An EFFECTIVE bureaucracy doesn't work that way.
Wrong...still. When we are talking about the nation's security against terrorism, here and around the world, to have the TOP intelligence official a clueless dunce is NOT normal, but it is very, very dangerous. This was not day-day trivialities, it was a MAJOR bomb plot/arrest.
Wrong...still. When we are talking about the nation's security against terrorism, here and around the world, to have the TOP intelligence official a clueless dunce is NOT normal, but it is very, very dangerous. This was not day-day trivialities, it was a MAJOR bomb plot/arrest.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this. The whole point of an organization is to spread out the responsibility and whether the top boss knows some particular item isn't nearly as important as the one who has responsibility for a response knowing.
I'm not concerned that the head man didn't know. I WOULD be concerned if the person who SHOULD have known didn't.
I think y'all are just looking for excuses to criticize. Had you found out he'd been down at field level dictating operations and responses, I suppose you would have criticized that too.
The bureaucracy in DC is too large to be effective. If nothing else the Sawyer interview has shown that this includes the bureaucratization of our intelligence agencies.
I've been in bureaucracies, even at the top of one, and I promise you I never knew what was going on any farther down than the next two levels. That was on purpose. To become involved in the day to day operations is micro-management and nobody should want that.
What you're expecting him to do, and holding him accountable for not doing so, is akin to expecting an Army theater Commander to know right off the cuff what each of his squads are doing.
An EFFECTIVE bureaucracy doesn't work that way.
When the top man doesn't know about something like that and you of the left tend to issue passes for that kind of lack of knowledge of something like that one it tells me too much about some of the left and the passes they issue.
I'll bet that even Joe Biden knew about that one by that time.
I would prefer that people defend based on the topic and not deflect to "well Bush did it" which serves no purpose.
I'm no fan of Bush and no fan of Obama so I got no horse in this game.
But Bush is gone for 2 years now. Truly he can't still be directing the administration ?
So right you are. 2 years gone, but still the attmpts there, to bash and blame, will this game never cease to end. 4 years into Obama's presidency, they will still be bashing Bush, very convenient, they have become so good at it.
"I've been in bureaucracies, even at the top of one, and I promise you I never knew what was going on any farther down than the next two levels. That was on purpose. To become involved in the day to day operations is micro-management and nobody should want that."
When the media or Feds are involved in a company's business I guarantee you, the CEO had better know it. Especially so he doesn't get caught flatfooted by the media with whom he had a scheduled interview. Heads would roll in a corporation. In fact the CEO's head would roll... to take a page out of the Islamic terrorist, 'how to treat your prisoners handbook'.
Our enemies have to know, now is the time to strike, with such celebrated incompetence as arranged by Obama inability to judge prospective administrators.
Brennan and Napolitano what a pair, throw in 'lap dog' Holder and you have three of a kind, but still a losing hand.
I have to go with the conservative side on this one. Brennan should have known. There is a poll on NPR that shows that 67% of their listeners agree.
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Brennan pleads to be replaced.....
