Politicians are human, take my word for it. Their natural tendency is to blame somebody and if that fails then blame somebody else. At first this Government blamed the previous PNM government and in the dodgy world of politics it was fair enough.When that rhetoric had run its course the blame was backhanded to the permanent secretaries and then shifted to Keith Rowley. Now the country's assault on a most irresponsible appointment to the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) is brushed off by the Prime Minister as a red herring served PNM-style. At the tail end the Deputy Director of the SSA is left holding the bag.
If the reports on the short-lived Director of the SSA are to be believed, this is no red herring and this is not the work of the deputy Director of the SSA. In this SSA fiasco the most disturbing fact is that the Prime Minister, as both head of the National Security Council and the Cabinet, failed to exercise sober and mature judgment in the selection and appointment of an "authorised officer" as the recent legislation describes the Director of the SSA.
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