Beltway Snark

His name is Richard Danzig. His hobbies include long walks on the beach, fishing, and reading Winnie the Pooh for NSA guidance.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

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Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”

He also gives pithy insights like how we’d all like to be Luke Skywalker and terrorists are like a mob of violent soccer fans. Isn’t that nice?

PS – Hey Obama, when you throw this guy under the bus (as you will, since the conservative blogosphere is already poking fun at this), might I suggest vetting your replacement to see what he/she considers good reading material.