re: #105 goddamnedfrank

He’ll just say something like “If the Army and intelligence services hadn’t withheld vital analyst reports from us we wouldn’t have ordered them to do that.”

He may even be half right, the problem of course is that the root cause of the failure stems from the priorities his administration set, to fund and empower Hamas in order to cynically thwart any progress on peace while focusing the vast majority of Israel’s security efforts on expanding the illegal West Bank settlements. The bureaucratic failure to give weight to the captured plan and the analysts’ reports is directly downriver from that.

If he did not see anything about these plans, he should be faulted for not having a system to get him that info. I think it isvery likely we will see a Daily Brief presented to him stating “Hamas Determined To Strike in Israel”.