Newsmax it touting an Aug. 31 column by Kent Clizbe, “a former member of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations,” attacking President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for purportedly declaring ‘War on the CIA” by investigating the possible use of torture by CIA interrogators. Clizbe quickly makes his argument personal, questioning whether Holder has “made any personal or professional sacrifices since his country was attacked in 2001” while Clizbe is claiming that his son “went from a happy, engaged, charming 13 year old with straight A’s and a focus on the future, to a sullen, uncommunicative, high school flunky” solely because of Clizbe’s long absences from home doing post-9/11 CIA work. (Call us crazy, but we suspect that’s not the only cause.)
Clizbe might have some credibility as a critic had he not had a record of baselessly trashing Obama. In a Sept. 30, 2008, Newsmax column, Clizbe called “Obama’s campaign talking points” the culmination of work begun by Lenin in 1920 to “undermine the culture, society, and economy of the United States”:
The Leninist elite vanguard of the proletariat in 1920 is today’s elite vanguard of progressives, with Obama as the public face. They know better than you. They are oh-so-smart, oh-so-cosmopolitan, oh-so-loved in Vienna and Paris. They plan to give the rubes and hayseeds of fly-over country what’s best for them, like it or not, made palatable by oratory and lies, and spoon-fed by their friends in the media, Hollywood, and academia.
In other words, Clizbe has an anti-Obama agenda and his criticism can’t really be taken seriously.