Why are there 17 intelligence agencies?
Turf, power, etc. Remember the USGS? They made maps. Now they study global warming. They spun off a separate piece to do mainly classified geospatial analysis called NGA. NGA now has a GIANT building in southern Fairfax county outside of DC. That’s one of the 17.
Some agencies want their own work force, research and products
Can’t blame them given the corruption agenda pushing and politicization we now recognize at certain alphabet agencies