Posted on 10/30/2006 4:14:22 PM PST by RDTF
Every weekday at 8 a.m., Kevin Brock hefts a thick white ring binder onto a sleek, oval conference table. Labeled "Read Book," the deceptively plain folder houses the "Threat Matrix," a top-secret compendium of the most troubling reports of possible terrorist activity, drawn from the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. It is thicker than usual on a recent Monday morning, packed with 66 separate items that came in over the weekend. Brock, the principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is about to brief some of the government's most senior officials on the latest threat information.
-snip- Facing a wall of secure video feeds, Brock watches top leaders from a dozen key players gather-the CIA, the FBI, the eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency, even the White House. A briefer from the center, running through the 18 items, discusses possible terrorist action in south Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, even inside the United States. Brock raises the recent release of a videotape showing two of the September 11 hijackers smiling for the camera. He pays particular attention to overseas threats that have a possible domestic angle. "NCTC was created to ... ensure the handshake occurs between international intelligence collection and the FBI or others within the country to take action," says Brock, a career FBI agent. "And we're seeing that take place on almost a daily basis."
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Smiling.
"No longer secret."
Never was. It is part of the law which created the Director of National Intellegince (John Negroponte) and supported by the Patriot Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Director_of_National_Intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Reform_and_Terrorism_Prevention_Act_of_2004
I was talking to a retired intel person of another country and your cartoon posting describes his view of our Christians In Action (as they are often called in conversation in a public place).
Another comment on this briefing business is that one of the CIA people who helps prepare (may still be doing so) the daily briefing for GWB is one of the people virulently opposed to him.
Info related to me by one of the chap's friends - also madly anti-Bush Democrat who verges on "looney" - and was happy about the fact that disinformation could be blended into these daily briefings by this man to fool the President.
We are our own worst enemy and that enemy is within our midst in positions to mislead and misdirect our leaders.
"...and was happy about the fact that disinformation could be blended into these daily briefings by this man to fool the President."
OPINION: Our country is at war against terrorism/terrorists right now and we do not need people who "fool the president." If indeed this was true, it
should be reported to the proper authorities.
I tried. Sent a message about this directly to the White House addressed to the President and the V-P.
Ok. Thank you Fars.
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