The Colossal Failure of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence »
Posted By jovial 7 months ago in NewsLike its counterpart, the office of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has been a colossal failure. Both offices were created in the wake of 9/11 as part of the nervous and unnecessary overreaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Hurricane Katrina exposed the futility and feckless nature of the office of Homeland Security. And now the inspector general of DNI has confirmed the ineptitude and mismanagement of the DNI.
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jovial7 months ago
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"The absence of an independent civilian counter to the power of military intelligence not only threatens civilian control over decisions to use military power, but makes it more likely that intelligence will be tailored to suit the purposes of the Pentagon. The militarization of the intelligence process has almost guaranteed that diversity and competition in the analysis of intelligence will be given short shrift. President Harry Truman created the CIA in 1947 to make sure that no policy department, particularly the Department of Defense, dominated the intelligence process."-
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Spadecaller7 months ago
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A good intelligence agency must rely on a system that has checks and balances, which are designed to weed out politicized intelligence reports, compliance to lobbyists, partisanship bias, personal profit, and corporate profiteering. We still have a long way to go.
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When you hear that a ship named the "USS Halliburton" rushed to the scene of the hijacked cargo ship bound for Kenya, you already have to know that piracy does not just occur at sea by foreign enemies.
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hyperbola7 months ago
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Frankly I think the creation of the Director of National Intelligence by the Bush administration in 2004 was an attempt to squelch what honesty remained in the CIA. Remember that Cheney / Rumsfeld used "military intelligence" in the Pentagon to generate most of the phony zioncon pro-Iraq-war propaganda. Those who paid attention at the time knew that the CIA objected to much of that propaganda.
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mesodude7 months ago
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Face it, folks...Bushco installed his destructive corporate minions throughout the federal government to sabotage as many agencies as possible. As someone who has worked for the federal courts, I know how much right wingers hate the judicial branch (except when they want to stalk Obama regarding his citizenship, deny Democrats a seat in Congress, or get ExxonMobil off the hook for the billions they owe Americans for Valdez). But don't get me started...
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What better way to get cons onboard the "capitalism is best" bandwagon than to make government failure a self-fulfilling prophecy? Note that when Bush was in office, nary a discouraging word about "his" government was heard. Bush's FEMA didn't do nuthin'. It was all them black folks' fault. Look at the Justice Department. Just *look* at what Bush and Cheney have done to us. ;-( -
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DarkWizard7 months ago
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FTA - "Truth is elusive within the intelligence process, and there is rarely a single answer to a controversial question or problem that needs an input from the intelligence community. A centralized system worked for the Bush administration because Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld never wanted tough-minded intelligence analysis to inform foreign policy decision-making."
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Those who don't understand intelligence will destroy it with their meddling and ineptness.
Also FTA - "But Obama and Biden are more open-minded and analytical."
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mmrhe7 months ago
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Doesn't it really come down to the character of the people involved?
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If you're truly interested in the truth, you understand that opposing viewpoints are critical in gaining a more comprehensive overview.
If you're simply looking for validation of you're own biased view, all the laws in the world won't stop you from corrupting the process.
Mr. Bush and his Flying Man-Monkey Richard Cheney cooked the books with the same lawyer like sleaze currently practiced on Wall Street. -
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Beau78907 months ago
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It wasn't always that way. Most federal agencies used to do exactly what they were designed to do. The FDA, NIH, CPSC, FAA and others were all very effective at one time.
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Unfortunately, Republicans have been dismantling and underfunding those agencies since the '80s, under the pretense of "making government smaller." What they really did was intentionally make government more likely to fail, which would garner support for privatization of all government functions...incidentally allowing further corruption of government and exploitation of consumers at the hands of private industry.
The current administration is trying to strengthen federal agencies in order to allow those bureaucracies to fulfill the missions for which they were created. -
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Tangent0017 months ago
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Social Security works well (when it's coffers aren't being plundered).
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Medicare is also a very effective agency. In fact, most doctor's offices prefer to work with Medicare than with private insurance companies who are always trying to underpay, if not deny coverage entirely.
I'd also have to list the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard and Coast Guard as historically well-run institutions.
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Icantwait7 months ago
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Breaking News! The President of the United States has decided that the housing problem is more important than the Americans captured by the Muslim Pirates. This has not been reported by the Hollywood Media. I have discovered that a lot of the Liberal responders to these news stories are actually individuals who are serving time in prison, people who are part of the terrorist movement, Communist, some Politicians, College Professors, Acorn Criminals Some brainwashed College Students but Ironically not that many Liberal Democrats. In other words impostors of the Left movement who are trying to cause Political unrest in this country. Let's face no Liberal Democrats have the mental acuity let alone the inclination to write paragraphs of utter stupidity at one time. Oh! I'm not saying they aren't stupid just to lazy to spend time typing. The true Liberal Democrats are concern about one thing only. Collecting their Government checks and enlarging their families. Some of the people to look out for are as follows: Dionys, Jelooba, Spadecaller, Hyperbola, Ratskii, HHussk, New Person, Mecormany,Fsev41,Vizion, Psychohosebeast, Sparechange, Caliqueen430, Antibrain washer, Charlson. Daylight, Omma987, Elisheva1, and Ruahanddabar. Look out for these responders they are spreading the hate. I will alert you too many more in the future. Just ignore what they say it is all Anti-American. Until we meet again.
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CHAM7 months ago
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icantwait. I'm not sure where to begin. First about your comment "The President of the United States has decided that the Housing Problem is more important than the Americans captured by Muslim Pirates".
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Seems to me that the facts are as follows:
The Freighter is owned by a Danish Company who hired an American Crew to run the United Nations Cargo to Kenya. The ship is U S flagged because a subsidiary of the Danish owners is stationed in Virginia. The ship was loaded in the United Arab Emirates.
Yes, the Housing Crisis is more important to America than this incident. The ship, the cargo, and the crew was not employed by the United States in any capacity. And it is unusual for U S citizens to be used as crewmen like this.
Having said this, we do need to get rid of the pirates. From my perspective, the United Nations should fund and furnish the muscle to clean out the pirates on the land in Somalia. Go there and establish a base, offer high dollar rewards for the arrest and conviction of the pirates.
The local Somalis know who the players are and would have a great financial incentive to turn in the gang. -
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Progressive7 months ago
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This is off topic, but the latest AP update says American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips jumped overboard overnight. He was apparently hoping to reach a U.S. warship standing guard several hundred yards away. The destroyer USS Bainbridge has rescue helicopters aboard, as well as lifeboats. The Bainbridge is keeping its distance, in part to stay out of the pirates' range of fire.
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