Posted on 04/07/2020 10:37:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Trump administration is set to pare desk jobs at the top of the intelligence community, invoking the argument that its staffs are too large and duplicative, knowledgeable sources say.
One of the first targets is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany and a favorite of President Trump, arrived as acting director in February.
Mr. Grenell has brought in Kash Patel, once a close aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican. Mr. Patel principally wrote the 2018 Nunes memo that exposed the FBI’s reliance on the discredited Christopher Steele dossier to justify spying on the Trump campaign.
The other focus is a DNI satellite office, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). It is a post-9/11 creation that analyzes the global terror threat, maintains huge databases on suspects and groups, and issues public and secret assessments.
The NCTC now has about 1,000 staffers. Ten years ago, it employed about 500, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The ODNI staff totals between 1,700 and 2,000. The ODNI says the workforce has stayed steady since its birth in 2005, overseeing $60 billion in annual spending, setting strategic policy and serving as the president’s chief intelligence adviser.
“It ballooned at inception,” said Daniel Hoffman, a three-decade CIA clandestine service veteran and a three-time station chief abroad. “I believe that what the current administration is doing is trying to streamline the DNI by reducing the number of people who are there and don’t need to be there.”
Mr. Hoffman told The Washington Times that the ODNI and the NCTC are too large and could be culled to free up more officers and analysts.
The counterterrorism center, he said, competes and sometimes duplicates what the CIA’s office does.
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Pare down the Intelligence Agencies and the IQ will go up....bigly.
“George....its Pelosi on the phone for you...again”
“Pare down the Intelligence Agencies and the IQ will go up....bigly.” Very well said amd in Trumpian, no less. Now all we need is an oversight by a different agency. IRS-CID follows the money, brought down Ames in CIA when FBI could not find him. Besides, other than AGs in the DOJ, no one likes themthem and they like no one
SO MANY Swamp dwellers. Each a LEAK waiting to happen.
FIRE anyone PRE-Trump and replace.
I am so glad this is finally happening.
Also prohibit any intel transfers to Adam Schiff whatsoever. Let him take any demand all the way to the SCOTUS.
Good, keep cleaning house so we can get off to a fast start in the 2nd term with the GOP majority in the House.
Coup plotters handing me my Whopper at the BK drive thru.
Can’t wait!
That IS ONE agency that needs to be culled. Too many Trump hating swamp creatures in it.
Can probably do away with 90% of it. The President has never trusted them.
Intelligence _communities_ who do not fight to defend USConstitution, are enemies of it.
... And only about 90% of DC intelligence existence and operation is un-constitutional.
His CIA got us intervening in French Indochina in 1952 two years before Dien Bien Phu defeat of the French Army in 1954. The continuous intervention in Viet politics, the murder of the Diems, and the ignoring of Ho Chi Minh who originally approached the US for support. All of those were from the hands of this supposedly foreign intelligence sourcing “unit”. Remember the sacred use of the term “17 Intelligence Agencies”
includes this apparat, and Defense every branch... etc.
Going to watch “The Lives of Others” film about... the Stasi State. It is definitely one envisioned by obamaumao and his techie pals... and people like Soros and Bill Gates, finally through the use of government controlled health systems— designed to keep us...dare one say it-quarantined. A police State is one,no matter Left or Right which is self sustaining and preserving.
“The counterterrorism center, he said, competes and sometimes duplicates what the CIA’s office does.” And Brennan came from there, as did his rising female “star” a zoology graduate from Duke whose claim to fame are all the gub-financed techie companies (including biotech) created envisioned with taxpayer money as In-Q-Tel... so the IPO’s could be in the hands of controllable politicians.
So— sometimes the CT center does what the cia says to do— including inside our own country— which is nowhere in it’s charter description. Spy vs. Spy used to be in Mad Magazine only.
Schiff just sent a letter to Grenell stating Grenell was making changes too fast and without congressional authorization.
This ticks me off something fierce. Schiff thinks HE has Executive Branch overwatch super powers. I can’t wait for Trump to tell PencilNeck to go stick his PencilNeck in a Fargo chipper!
Bttt.
5.56mm
Goodbye Deep State.
Good, keep cleaning house so we can get off to a fast start in the 2nd term with the GOP majority in the House.
Oh yes!! And I’d like to see anyone who’s not in the administration have their security clearances REVOLKED!!!
Oh no, the IC might start trying to set him up...oh wait.
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