Posted on 01/04/2017 4:06:18 PM PST by springwater13
President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nation’s top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said, prompted by a belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized.
The planning comes as Mr. Trump has leveled a series of social media attacks in recent months and the past few days against U.S. intelligence agencies, dismissing and mocking their assessment that the Russian government hacked emails of Democratic groups and individuals and then leaked them last year to WikiLeaks and others in an effort to help Mr. Trump win the White House.
One of the people familiar with Mr. Trump’s planning said advisers also are working on a plan to restructure the Central Intelligence Agency, cutting back on staffing at its Virginia headquarters and pushing more people out into field posts around the world. The CIA declined to comment on the plan.
“The view from the Trump team is the intelligence world [is] becoming completely politicized,” said the individual, who is close to the Trump transition operation. “They all need to be slimmed down. The focus will be on restructuring the agencies and how they interact.”
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drain the swamp....
....send the critters back to Madison and Berkeley
Dang, all the liberals were the ones to get pared back.
Let the bloodletting start. Start with all senior staff.
Ya better look at the secret service, too. How many tinmes was the White House breeched. However, I believe he was not there for any of the “events”.
James Clapper, former DNI, lied to Congress in 2013. He wasn’t misinformed. He flat out fibbed about NSA collecting bulk records about millions of phone calls in the U.S. CIA (and FBI and other departments) are politicized now. Surprise! Time to clean house.
Clancy was prescient. Clark & Ding? Mary Pat?
I think it’s utterly silly that we have so many different agencies.
No point to it. Combine the NSA, CIA and all the individual service intelligence agencies. I can see keeping the FBI separate, but eliminate all the redundancies.
Get them before they get you, Donald.
Trump is right. Obama said he didn’t know about ISIS in Iraq because OUR intelligence was bad....really, really, bad.
Mike Baker runs a business for intelligence and security WHY can’t the CIA become a contracted out private business??? They would do a HELL of a lot better job AND would NOT become political!!!!!!
Sounds good to me!
Fire the Obama hacks. Or send them to Allepo to collect Intel.
That would save money. But if one or two agencies have a monopoly you won't get different points of view.
Also, a lot of these agencies are under the Department of Defense. The Army, the Navy, the Air Force, codebreakers and spy satellites all have a different focus for intel.
One could make a case that they -- and the Marine Corps -- may not need to be in intelligence gathering in a big way, but they do need tactical information relating to their own potential operations.
I'm not sure the Coast Guard or the Energy Department really need intelligence agencies, but just how big these agencies are I don't know.
Getting rid of CIA sources involved with leaks to the media would be a real good start.
No, just cut them all back to their core missions. Each agency has unique and defined missions, and all provide a piece of the overall intelligence need, but politicization is wrong and needs to be sharply nipped out.
Because the effect is like hiring out the armed services. When they are strong enough to protect you, they can rule you.
There have been safeguards built into the FBI and CIA. They have certainly been damaged and pared down over the decades, but I do not think these agencies should be privatized.
Absolutely not!
Not with inteligence and clandestine operations.
The Coast Guard intel is mostly for Counter Drugs, Counter Terrorism, Counter Piracy and Counter Migrants.
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