say hello to the new national intelligence director

okay, now that is just plain funny. two whole posts dedicated to insecurity and here i thought numero uno was lost in cyberspace forever. well now i feel all better.

and secure as can be.

in fact, maybe i'm feeling so secure that i think i should be the new non-cabinet level national intelligence director. i mean, i'm super smart and witty and i wouldn't have to deal with budgets, so that would make it much easier. plus, i'd have such a large staff that they won't be able to fit in the white house which is why they would be separate from the white house (according to andy card).

listen in to bush's press conference:

bush: ...I think it [the national intelligence director's group] ought to be a stand-alone group, to better coordinate, particularly between foreign intelligence and domestic intelligence matters. I think it's going to be one of the most useful aspects of the National Intelligence Director.

isn't it comforting to know that this group will be more effective coordinating all of these large matters outside of the white house? wow...bush just always knows how to ease minds and make us feel safe and secure. oh, and i wouldn't want to leave out the last part of his press conference. listen to the final question and answer session:

Q: ...Mr. President, would you say -- can you say what you regard as the model for this National Intelligence Director? Is it the Fed, would it be the Joint Chiefs of Staff? And in what way would this new structure prevent the kind of intelligence failings that preceded the war in Iraq with respect to weapons, difficulty of the opposition faced, and those sorts of things?

THE PRESIDENT: Not like the Fed. More like the Joint Chiefs, because the Joint Chiefs have got a -- even though not a part of the chain of command, they are affected by the chain of command.

And the second part of the -- oh, why would this -- listen, let me talk about the intelligence in Iraq. First of all, we all thought we would find stockpiles of weapons. We may still find weapons. We haven't found them yet. Every person standing up here would say, gosh, we thought it was going to be different, as did the Congress, by the way, members of both parties, and the United Nations. But what we do know is that Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons.

And let me just say this to you: Knowing what I know today, we still would have gone on into Iraq. We still would have gone to make our country more secure. He had the capability of making weapons. He had terrorist ties. The decision I made was the right decision. The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power. And I find it interesting, in the political process, that some say, well, I voted for the intelligence, and now they won't say whether or not it was the right decision to take Saddam Hussein out. It's the right decision, and the world is better off for it.

saying it doesn't make it so mr. bush. just remember that.