Veteran CIA Operative gives examples of how Obama appeared intimidated and deferential to his Intell heads Written in 2003 by Ray McGovern.  He was as an Army Infantry/Intelligence officer in the early 60s and then a CIA analyst for 27 years.  He then serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)  VIPS is the group that claims DNC emails were not hacked but leaked by some one with internal access to DNC computers. Obama Intimidated? The mainstream media had an allergic reaction to Douglass’s book and gave it almost no reviews. It is, nevertheless, still selling well. And, more important, it seems a safe bet that President Barack Obama knows what it says and maybe has even read it. This may go some way toward explaining why Obama has been so deferential to the CIA, NSA, FBI and the Pentagon. Could this be at least part of the reason he felt he had to leave the Cheney/Bush-anointed torturers, kidnappers and black-prison wardens in place, instructing his first CIA chief Leon Panetta to become, in effect, the agency’s lawyer rather than leader. Is this why the President feels he cannot fire his clumsily devious Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who had to apologize to Congress for giving “clearly erroneous” testimony in March? Is this why he allows National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and counterparts in the FBI to continue to mislead the American people, even though the intermittent snow showers from Snowden show our senior national security officials to have lied — and to have been out of control? This may be small solace to President Obama, but there is no sign that the NSA documents that Snowden’s has released include the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,300-page report on CIA torture. Rather, that report, at least, seems sure to be under Obama’s and Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein’s tight control. But the timorous President has a big problem. He is acutely aware that, if released, the Senate committee report would create a firestorm almost certainly implicating Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and many other heavy-hitters of whom he appears to be afraid. And so Obama has allowed Brennan to play bureaucratic games, delaying release of the report for more than a year, even though its conclusions are said to closely resemble earlier findings of the CIA’s own Inspector General and the Constitution Project (see below). https://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/22/trumans-true-warning-on-the-cia/ He goes on to discuss bad behavior by Clapper and Brennan including stonewalling and false statements and testimonies to oversight about treatment of detainees during Iraq war.