Posted on 03/06/2015 9:15:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the spy agency’s limited insights into a series of major global developments.
Brennan announced the restructuring to the CIA workforce on Friday, including a new directorate devoted to boosting the CIA’s computer hacking skills. He said the move comes after nine agency officers spent three months analyzing its management structure, including what deputy CIA director David Cohen called “pain points,” organizational areas where the CIA’s bureaucracy does not work efficiently. […]
The changes come against a backdrop of evidence that the CIA’s focus on hunting and killing terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks has led to an erosion of the espionage and analytic capabilities the agency built during the Cold War. The CIA, along with other U.S. intelligence agencies, wrongly assessed the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002 and failed to anticipate the rapid collapse of Middle East governments during the Arab Spring in 2011, among other shortcomings. …
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There must be something about spending half your time uncovering the truth and the other half obscuring it that makes you develop into a sort of passive aggressive old schoolmarm with tentacles spread so much throughout the chessboard that even you don’t know precisely what your position is. Case in point: Michael Scheuer.
“Director John Brennan”
He’s the hippie Muslim convert.
Nobody hired communists—but they hired Castro sympathizers?
Wild Bill Donovan would have kicked Brennan’s ass.
The CIA and its predecessor the OSS always had a huge “communist problem”.
The OSS so much so that General MacArthur ordered them completely out of the Pacific Theatre for the duration, and he relied on military intelligence under his command.
Wild Bill worked for the same elites Brennan does. Well, they all do.
The financial elites call the shots. These guys are their minions.
Well, I guess I learned something new.
I always figured, at least at the top, it was pretty anti-communist. People like Helms, Angelton, and Dulles have reputations as such.
I agree. Hiring a muzzie to be head of the CIA seems to be the heighth of suicidal insanity.
What irritates me is it looks like the Agee crowd and the NCCP’s finally getting its wish.
The CIA didn’t fail to see it coming, the Obama admin just ignored them. Hell, who didn’t know it was going to happen?
I wonder if they failed to see it or just don’t want to admit the last 6 years have been a slow-motion coup.
Iran’s extended the welcome mat for Snowden recently.
Well, I rode with the real Air America in Vietnam. That CIA airline was ok with me.
The CIA knows exactly what's going on, which is why the Obama admin wants to shackle it.
Don’t tell me. The LGBT employees will now be running the joint.
Nobody hired communists for years except those already in government and by who were communists already or perhaps strong socialists. Ike knew there were communists in government but preferred them over the fascists.
My former liberal Presbyterian pastor once said that "educated and enlightened Christians know about God and feel comfortable talking about God but the less educated and superstitious Christians tend to want to talk about and focus on Jesus!"
I left my church that day, never again to return!
I finally was able to confirm that the man never knew nor believed in Jesus!
...a popular sentiment posted 40-years ago at World Bank. Times change but not man’s compulsion to fix what ain’t broken.
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.” - Petronius
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