{"id":746892,"date":"2021-09-13T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=746892"},"modified":"2021-09-13T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:06:05","slug":"former-director-of-national-intelligence-joe-biden-is-greatest-national-security-threat-we-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-director-of-national-intelligence-joe-biden-is-greatest-national-security-threat-we-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Director Of National Intelligence: Joe Biden Is \u2018Greatest National Security Threat\u2019 We Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-director-of-national-intelligence-joe-biden-is-greatest-national-security-threat-we-face%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=746892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Biden-11.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday night that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, is the greatest threat that the United States faces from a national security perspective because of the numerous bad decisions that the administration has made.<\/p>\n<p>Levin highlighted the recent disaster caused in Afghanistan by Biden and asked, \u201cWhat has Joe Biden done to America\u2019s national security?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo your point, first on Afghanistan, I hope that it\u2019s just something that has an impact for decades, I hope it\u2019s not centuries; it\u2019s the most profound loss for the United States, certainly in our lifetime,\u201d Ratcliffe said. \u201cBut one of my concerns there, and this goes to your larger question about what has Joe Biden done to our national security, he\u2019s very currently harmed, but in so many respects beyond Afghanistan, but this most recent, most painful, colossal, epic failure in Afghanistan has literally breathed life into the radical Islamic terrorist movement, not just in Afghanistan, but around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe warned that U.S. intelligence officials will not know how bad the consequences of Biden\u2019s actions are going for \u201ca long, long time to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote an article as the Director of National Intelligence saying that China was our number one national security threat; I did that as I was walking out the door based on the \u2026. fact that, you know, I\u2019m the person that saw more intelligence than anyone else in the country over the past year, and China very much is that existential threat to our country,\u201d Ratcliffe continued. \u201cBut if I had to write that op-ed today, I would tell you that I think our greatest national security threat, at least in the short term, is Joe Biden, and our national security apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the reason I say that, and I\u2019m not trying to be glib or hyperbolic, but Mark, they have literally gotten everything wrong for eight straight months,\u201d Ratcliffe explained. \u201cWith respect to China, with respect to Russia, with respect to Iran, with respect throughout the Middle East, now, including Afghanistan, it goes on and on, literally, they\u2019re batting zero. They\u2019re striking out at every turn. And it\u2019s having a profound grave impact on our national security and our national security posture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe opined that America\u2019s national security posture is weaker with respect to China, Russia, Iran, and Islamic terrorists because of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always look at what the intelligence, what I saw in that position, and one of the challenges here that we are facing for the next three years, is a president who\u2019s not listening to the intelligence; our intelligence was crystal clear about what was going to happen in Afghanistan if we withdrew without conditions-based terms that we had negotiated and when Biden abandoned that plan; it went exactly to what we said was going to happen and that is unfortunately a trend that has continued where this administration and this national security apparatus keeps making bad decisions; keeps ignoring the actual intelligence that we have,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd honestly, nothing concerns me more right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe noted that Biden\u2019s disaster in Afghanistan was \u201d demonstrating cowardice on the [inter]national stage to our allies and to our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In explaining how Biden has damaged America\u2019s national security, Ratcliffe said, \u201cHow do you think our intelligence is going to work in the Middle East and in other places around the world, when we rely so much on human intelligence sources, people who work with the United States knowing that they will be shielded from and have the protection of the United States at the end of the day, when they watch the people that have worked with us in Afghanistan for the last few years be beheaded in front of their families?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you know, our ability to even conduct the best intelligence around the world has been impacted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe warned that while America is the greatest country in the world that there are people inside the U.S. that are working to destroy it.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday night that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, is the greatest threat that the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}