Acolytes

Today President Obama is nominating three acolytes to fill three vitally important posts in his administration … John Kerry to State, Chuck Hagel to Defense, and John Brennan to head the CIA.  They are soon to replace, in this order, three much more independently-minded people … Hillary Clinton (in questionable health),  a burned-out Leon Panetta, and former General David Petraeus (who fell on his sword … possibly an unfortunate analogy) … see: Earthlink News. 

Two of these nominees are long-time legislators (Hagel and Kerry) and such people usually don't translate well to administrative posts (I’ll comment more on this at some later date), but, to me, this CIA nomination is even more unfortunate in that Brennan has always appeared to me to put politics and his career ahead of his patriotic duties.  I first noted this in January, two years ago, when he botched the crotch bomber incident … see Head(s) Should Roll

Since then, Brennan, who is currently Obama’s assistant for counter-terrorism and homeland security, has appeared to be involved in numerous unsavory security leaks (such as those surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden) and national security screw-ups (e,gs,, the Benghazi fiasco/cover-up and the loss of a high-tech drone to Iran … see: Cyber Warfare).  Yes, but one could also argue he has also been in the forefront of the use of drones to take out much of al Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere… but he has also approved the selling of drones to Pakistan (see: Are We F...ing Crazy?) and giving F-16 fighter jets to Egypt … both silly bone-headed moves.

Putting Brennan in to head up the CIA makes me very uneasy in that he seems more politically active and willing to massage Obama's ego than is advisable in this post.  He (like Obama's two other neophyte acolytes) really does not seem to be up to the job.

Afterward: See also: Breitbart Story and His Remarks about Jihad and The Left Dislikes Him Too