02-15-2024, 03:14 AM
(02-14-2024, 02:55 PM)Maxmars Wrote: My first intruding thought was... "wait... that little tidbit sat unreported for a week?" It seems to me that the whole "urgent matter" was not reported until the Chair of the Intelligence Committee cried "Yo! We can't ignore this!" Is that right? And he received it a week ago too. And evidently recognized its apparent magnitude.
The National Security Advisor acknowledged, and apparently executed a personal briefing for the Committee Chairmen the very next day ... which must have been alarming enough justify this 'open call' request to the administration.
I think it's a reflection of how politically fraught the US has been lately.
If you'll recall, Congress has had a lot of problems getting its act together in this past year (the long fight over "who's speaker" and then the more recent action trying to get a border bill (which was then immediately nuked (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congres...rcna137477) after the deal was firmed and sealed for delivery)
So in a way, yes, political games have interfered. Instead of acting for the better of the US, all sides have been acting for the betterment of their party and this is getting in the way of things that should have been attended to.
note: my opinion only, not supported by anything other than my own observations.
