NYT confirms Biden is considering Darrell Blocker for CIA Director

[soothsayer]

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Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
1. NYT confirms Biden is considering Darrell Blocker for CIA Director

Blocker served for 28 years at CIA mostly in the clandestine service. He was Chief of Africa division and served multiple times as Chief of Station

He would be the first Black person to serve as CIA Director

[Mopar151]

1. Good job. He knows where nefarious acts were buried.

Has a handle on which ones need digging up.

[Retrograde]

2. 28 years in the CIA?

Sounds like a good qualification right there! The experience in Africa is icing on the cake.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. His credentials look impressive! n/t

[canetoad]

9. And his looks

Are well credentialled.

[PSPS]

15. I hope we're past hiring people because they "look good on television."

[canetoad]

22. Oh dear

You utterly failed to grok the humour. Maybe another time, PSPS.

[Amaryllis]

25. He looks like someone you wouldnt wanna mess with...

[OregonBlue]

4. Especially given how involved Eric Prince is in

the Africa command and Africa in general.

[JI7]

6. And China has growing influence in Africa

i can see Ericc Prince going to work for China .

[JI7]

5. His name sounds like what a CIA character in a movie would be called

[canetoad]

10. Remember this guy?

Dan Blocker

Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the long-running NBC Western television series Bonanza.

[Cha]

7. If Biden's considering him..

Darrell Blocker must be excellent as well as his qualifications & experience!

[Vivienne235729]

11. Hi cha! I totally agree! I feel like the A team is about to go kick some ass.

[Cha]

12. Aloha, Vivienne!

The A Team is right.. So much experience & qualifications doing the right thing all these years and look where they are now!

They're like Super Heroes in my Book!

[Vivienne235729]

13. Ha! Funny you say that bc I was thinking the SAME thing. Like Avengers coming together

(I LOVE MARVEL/DC). Seeing the people Biden is tapping just makes me sigh a sigh of relief. The competence alone just warms my heart. I already feel safer. Like Putin is about to get his ass kicked. Hahaha

[Cha]

18. Yes I've seen some Marvel

series on netflix.. DC Avengers It Is!

It's kinda Surreal this is all happening.. I have to pinch myself sometimes.. after 4 years of Hellscape!

[Vivienne235729]

20. Yes!! And we flipped AZ BLUE. I still can't wrap my brain around that.

We were all in tears. I feel like there is finally a light at the end of this very dark tunnel. I want to see the whole trump kkklan GONE. I am looking forward to the rebuilding. Gives me hope.

[Cha]

23. I thought about how you Dems in AZ must

be so Happy when Arizona Turned Blue!

Speaking of which...

Link to tweet

So much Hope! to Arizona GOTV!

This is an interesting article on the night AZ was called "early" for Biden by fox.. of all networks!

Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’ ‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona for Biden early

https://www.jweekly.com/2020/11/04/meet-the-jewish-democrat-at-fox-news-decision-desk-the-man-who-called-arizona-for-biden-early/

[dhill926]

8. well...he's a bad ass looking dude....

so that's good enough for me kind of.....

[PSPS]

14. I'll go with qualifications, thanks. It isn't like an audition for a TV show.

[Vivienne235729]

16. He's an expert on Africa, Iran, N. Korea, and counterterrorism.

That's a big message to China and Russia.

[NBachers]

17. Don't mess with this guy

[Cha]

19. Yeah!

[wnylib]

21. Hope Russia gets some

long overdue payback now.

[crickets]

24. Interesting fellow.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/singer-tailor-soldier-spy-cia-officers-life-frontman/story?id=65415034

“We were playing our regular stuff and people were kind of into it,” said Jim Logan, the band’s guitarist. “But it just wasn't hitting.”

This was in 2003. Logan, a Berklee College of Music-trained guitarist, and his band, the Kampala Jazz All-Stars, had trekked nearly six hours through the East African countryside to play the gig. With more than 1,000 people in the audience, the group’s vocalist, Darrell M. Blocker, had an idea.

“Dude, we have got to start singing some stuff,” he shouted between songs. “We’ve got to start doing stuff that they hear and they recognize.”

Blocker cued the band to play “Stir It Up,” Bob Marley’s reggae hit.

“Everybody got up and danced,” Logan recalled. “He turned the whole thing around.”

Blocker knew how to connect with the audience in Soroti because that’s how the CIA trains all of its operations officers – clandestine agents who work undercover to gather intelligence. The difference, of course, is that most of those skilled operators work in quiet bars or roadside motel rooms – not singing live before scores of adoring fans.

“My clandestine activities were enhanced by being viewed as a singer, because who would ever think that one could be both?” Blocker said. “That is a leap too far for most and I honestly feel that it kept me safer by being in plain sight.”

What a wild career. He sounds sharp and well qualified, an individual who'd do a good job. I'm glad he's being considered as a possibility for the job.

[edhopper]

26. Not true

James Earl Jones was the first Black Director.