Well-respected investigative journalist Sheryl Attkisson, probably best known for her stint with CBS News and by her allegations that the Obama administration is one of the least transparent in modern history, is now reporting that the president refuses to even entertain intelligence briefs about various organizations if he ideologically disagrees with their respective classifications as terrorists.
Says Attkisson:
This latest characterization appears to at least notionally marry with previous reports indicating President Obama does not even attend most of his Presidential Daily Briefings and the growing hints that in the United States Central Command, real intelligence data has been altered to suit predetermined political narratives (in similar fashion to “climategate”).
Escalation of commitment to a given cause or point of view in the face of unsupportive/conflicting information, and the commission of confirmation bias in general, are both key hallmarks of someone who is incapable or unwilling to think, particularly critically.
President Obama’s liberal supporters, at the very least, should be especially attentive to his administration’s terrorism/foreign policies. Modern terrorists in general – and ISIS in particular – tend to pick large cities in which to enact their plots. And the last time I looked, America’s larger cities are not exactly bastions of the political Right. I hope for their sakes the irony is not lost on them amidst the hero worship.