Let’s see, with new threats emerging daily from North Korea and Iran (to say the least), it is hard to imagine that our network of spy satellites is not being fully utilized daily to provide us the latest imagery of pretty much everything that is going on in those parts of the world. Well, it seems Barack Obama doesn’t even know who manages these satellites or what it is they do.
In isolation, this is no big deal, but when you put it in the context of his whole body of work, it does not take long to figure out that Obama is truly an ignorant individual. Politico
On his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the President appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, from an agency employee also at the burger restaurant.
“So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial…” Obama said, after the worker mentioned his employer, according to a video of the event.
“We work with, uh, satellite imagery,” the worker, Walter replied.
A POLITICO reader caught the exchange, which starts around 5:45 on this C-SPAN video.
The transcript:
Obama: What do you do Walter?
Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that?
Walter: About six years
Obama: Yea?
Walter: Yes.
Obama: You like it?
Walter: I do, keeps me…
Obama: So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial…uh…
Walter: Uh, we work with, uh, satellite imagery..
Obama: Right
Walter: [unintelligible] …support systems, so…
Obama: Sounds like good work.
Walter: Enjoy the weekend.
Obama: Appreciate it.
Incidentally, what is the NGA?
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.
NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term “geospatial intelligence” means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.
You might also want to check out 3:32 of the video when Obama says he did not know that there are more problems than he thought because he did not know the ‘economy was going to collapse’… Okay then, I guess all the talk about the economy during his campaign was just BS… The good news is Obama knows all there is to know about ACORN…
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