“Nothing more than a misstep on the stairs.”

Kate Bedingfield
White House com director

March 20 2021 — On Friday, Joe Biden stumbled three times on his way up a staircase to the Air Force One presidential aircraft. Beware the Ides of March and the March of Illness… Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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“They (CIA Medical and Psychiatric Analysis Center) have been monitoring the health of world leaders for decades. It’s an essential element of biographical profiles.”
 
Intelligence Historian
Jeffrey T. Richelson
Author of “The Wizards of Langley”

“The problem is that what Biden believes is starting to look more and more at odds with reality.”

TIME
(July 2024)

UPDATE (July 3, 2024) — For once, TIME tells it the way it is.

“Before midnight, Joe Biden would slog through 90 minutes of a debate against Trump that even Biden’s closest allies privately admitted was a disaster. Biden appeared every bit the 81-year-old grandfather that he is, stammering with a thin voice through unintelligible arguments and often staring blankly, mouth agape, as Trump lobbed one verbal attack after another. Biden froze up repeatedly and fumbled even some set-piece lines he had prepared in advance for the moment. When fielding a question about the national debt, his answer was incomprehensible… Panic is not too strong a word to describe the sentiment that coursed through the Democratic Party from top to bottom as the debate unfolded.”

This blog is not about politics. Nevertheless, the mental and physical health of a world leader is very much an intelligence issue.

This morning, a friend journalist posted the following comment on her Facebook page:

“And SUDDENLY they panic! After four years of daily gaffes, stumbling, falling, walking aimlessly around etc and NOW they all agree to notice?!? Time Magazine’s latest cover is no meme.”

When trying to uncover the extent and timing of knowledge or awareness about critical information, particularly in political or scandal-related situations, two questions should always come to mind.

What did they know? When did they know?

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches about not judging others hypocritically. The full context goes on to say:

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5, NIV)

This passage emphasizes the importance of self-examination and humility before criticizing others.

PS: I believe that US Intel Agencies could learn a lot from self-examination and humility.

END of UPDATE

“As an intelligence officer working with a team of physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists, you will assess the physical health of foreign leaders and terrorists.”

CIA advertisement published in
‘Journal of the American Medical Association’

The US president (78) was departing for Atlanta from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

About halfway up the red carpeted stairs, Biden could be seen losing his footing before stumbling three times.

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Biden was not injured.

“I know folks have seen that President Biden slipped on his way up the stairs to AF1, but I’m happy to report that he is just fine and did not even require any attention from the medical team who travels with him,” she tweeted.

Earlier this week, Biden referred to vice-president Kamala Harris as “President Harris”

Last November, Dr. Kevin O’Connor — Biden’s primary care doctor since 2009 — wrote that Biden is “a healthy, vigorous man who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”

According to an academic paper released by the American Federation for Aging Research, Biden has a 79% chance of living through a first term and a 70% chance of surviving through a second term.

What about cognitive decline? Above the age of 65, a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia doubles about every 5 years. Dementia affects one in 14 people over 65 and one in six people over 80.

By the way, did you know that psychiatrists tend to vote Democratic. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson’s pollster noted that doctors were overwhelmingly Republican — “except for psychiatrists.”

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.”
James Madison

Joe Biden stumbles on steps of Air Force One

REFERENCES

A Closer Look at Joe Biden’s Health — WebMD

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