sad when the man's job is to know these basic things and can't even fake not knowing.

but keep trying to make it a something and do hold your breath while you are in the process.

Israel is talking fart again. When you have 70 million people demanding change and millions marching in the street you better support the people because at the end of the day the people you support become the government. If you go against these people when change finally comes and it will, they won't forget.

Incompetent, when you elect a boy(obama) to do a mans job you see the results. He hires people not talented in intel, but politicians. America needs to protest agaist obama, get the tea party as our President. Hopefully it won't be to late.

With this incompetent, inexperienced, laughable yet arrogant Administration, who exactly is surprised here? Obama and his henchmen studied Cloward and Piven, Marx, and Alinsky; who had time for or interest in foreign affairs and our security in relation to them? That's just downright silly . . ..

Why would anyone be surprised that the higher-ups in The Messiah's administration show themselves to be clueless? Haven't you been watching The Messiah and his useful idiots for the past two years now? But heck - you blokes cheered him on like he was bigger than Jesus, Einstein, Moses, Buddha, Madame Curie, Napoleon, Winston Churchill and Elvis - and made it look "cool" to vote on the basis of charisma (and of course, "anyone but Bush" - who wasn't running). November 2012 cannot come soon enough.

This is clearly a case when politics is governing intelligence and letting what it wants to cloud its eyesight to what is. Churchill warned against this - I guess that is why Obama returned Churchill's bust .

Goodness gracious! I was aware of the Islamic Brotherhood back in the 1970s. Their agenda? They've PUBLISHED their agenda! This is neither brain science nor rocket surgery.

Please correct yourself.....It's American Liberal Ignorance.

The steady dumbing down of America is comming home to roost. The people got exactly what they voted for. When you believe that an Ass-hat like BHO is going to give you something for nothing this is what happens.

They sound clueless because the Obama administration has no policy (based in reality) to articulate. To anyone that's listening, its clear the administration is willing to looking the other way where the Muslim Brotherhood is concerned. Do you really expect the administration's own people to point that out with a cogent analysis of the Brotherhood? Of course not! These men are not idiots ... they just work for one. IT'S A LEADERSHIP FAILURE..

The inability of this country to confront hatred and call it for what it is will be our undoing. We're soooo afraid of being called racist, islamaphobe, homophobe, or whatever other term that someone wants to label us with, that we look the other way and refuse to recognize problems and address them in a rationale manner. We've become a nation of politically correct pu**ies. PS I spent 24 years in the military and I'm a combat vet several times over.

Personally, I think the intel agencies are very clued in. They just don't want to say what is going on and try to avoid the topic.

CoolSprings.com just covered Sarah Palin visiting here in Franklin at our Costco. She'll run and definitely beat Obama come election time.

Overwhelming so.

With 152 days of experience as a US Senator. What were we to expect. B.H. Obama is generating more problems by his weak stance on every foreign policy issue. He thinks if he smiles Islamists will love him. Clueless or Complicit. Obama is not a friend of Israel. And his government is increasingly anti-Israel.

I'm just a dumb Canadian but I could easily supply a detailed history, analysis and intentions of the Brotherhood - all available from online sources. I have to assume Clapper doesn't know how to use a computer. Pathetic! Perhaps someone in the brain-dead U.S. mainstream media could ask Obama his criteria in hiring Clapper. Or even (gasp) let's see if anyone calls for his firing. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

With Iran being supported by Putin, Israel can't afford an American president as indifferent, incompetent, and, perhaps, hostile, as Obama. Is it time to send the kids to America yet?

I'm sorry, I have to believe that the bunch in power in the US are not clueless and pursuing a purposeful agenda. To the rest of us, of course, it looks like idiocy, but to them it serves some purpose - what I don't exactly know.

No, we're not all clueless. I personally know you're just a bunch of 11th century throwbacks. Personally, I hope war breaks out in the mid east and you all manage to shoot each other. But we do agree that western values have no place in islamic culture. we just need to face the fact that some people are culturally unsuited for democracy.

These are the usual bureaucratic non-answers that we have come to expect. The policy makers are ignorant, and that is what their Mideast policy is based on. Of course, the American media aids and abets the ignorance.

They are only pretending to be clueless. America knows EXACTLY what is going on. The US government wanted Mubarak ousted and replaced with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Another Iran. The Telegraph Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289686/Egypt-protests-Americas-secret-backing-for-rebel-leaders-behind-uprising.html Egyptian protesters promise to destroy Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWcKewmyh_o&feature=player_embedded Muslim Brotherhood Wants War With Israel Forex Bits | Yohay | January 31, 2011 2:54 pm GMT Mohamed Ghanem, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, calls Egypt to stop pumping gas to Israel and prepare the Egyptian army for a war with it’s eastern neighbor. http://www.forexcrunch.com/muslim-brotherhood-wants-war-with-israel/

You are the one who is clueless concerning us Americans. You think we`re clueless and dumb because we disagree with with Israeli policy? It`s because we DO know,. that is why we disagree. We pay attention which makes you dumb for thinking otherwise.

Most if us in the U.S. do NOT like Obama and we have zero confidence in Clapper!