There’s A Massive Disconnect Between The White House And Everyone Else

Thursday, October 30, 2014
By Paul Martin

Michael B Kelley
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 30, 2014

The past week has revealed just how much the Obama administration is operating on its own.

Regarding the Middle East, senior US officials described the “disconnect” in the president’s plan for battling the Islamic State militant group, while others called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickens—.” The administration defended the president’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL) and backed away from the insults of Netanyahu.

Within Washington, a senior Armed Services Committee staffer told Politico that “the [Department of Defense] and Capitol Hill are often taken by surprise at same time and on same issues” by the White House.

An egregious example involved the Obama administration failing to have Pentagon lawyers review the legislative language about training Syrian rebels before sending it to Capitol Hill. Republican staffers on the House Armed Services Committee told Politico that the language was “so sloppy that it failed to mention adequate protections against so-called ‘green-on-blue’ attacks by trainees on American troops.”

Blame has fallen partly on the administration’s National Security Council, which has beefed up to 300 members from 50 and is seen as reacting to a series of crises, as opposed to being proactive with a coherent strategy.

“There is a sense that the NSC is run a little like beehive ball soccer, where everyone storms to wherever the ball is moving around the field,” one former administration official told Politico.

The media also finds itself locked out. New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson said Obama’s White House is the “most secretive White House” that she’s covered during her long career as a political journalist.

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