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From the interesting crew over at tinyrevolution.com
It's Not Our Fault If It's a Perfect Storm!
Whenever elites fail in a gigantic, public way, you can be sure of one thing:
it was a "perfect storm." So you can't blame them for what happened.
Edward Snowden's leak of NSA documents was, at least by their standards, a big failure. But as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper explained to Congress on Tuesday, it wasn't their fault because it was a perfect storm:
The director, James R. Clapper Jr., testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Mr. Snowden had taken advantage of a perfect storm of security lapses.
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Why was there a gigantic financial crisis in 2008? According to the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, you can't blame them because it was a perfect storm:
In short, underestimation of risk, opacity, interconnection, and leverage, all combined to create the perfect (financial) storm.
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Why was New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina? According to then-Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, you can't blame them because it was a perfect storm:
"That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight," Chertoff said. He called the disaster "breathtaking in its surprise."
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And why did everyone in the U.S. government believe Iraq was teeming with WMD? According to a top U.S. intelligence official, you can't blame them because it was a perfect storm:
[W]as Iraq, as one senior intelligence official told the Commission, a sort of perfect storma one-time breakdown caused by a rare confluence of events that conspired to create a bad result?
That's four perfect storms in ten years. Man, our elites have the worst luck.
Jon Schwarz
dickthegrouch
(3,184 posts)that could have been used to plan against the next set of perfect storms.