U.S. intel agencies failing to counter threat from China, says House Intelligence Committee report

https://www.nbcnews.com/ ^ | Sept. 30, 2020, | Ken Dilanian

[RomanSoldier19]

WASHINGTON — After two decades of prioritizing counterterrorism, U.S. intelligence agencies are failing to sufficiently understand and counter the national security threat posed by China, the House Intelligence Committee concludes in a new report issued Wednesday.

The report, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with intelligence officers and thousands of analytic assessments, finds that the intelligence community must change how it does business — not only to improve its insights into China, but also to better address "the growing importance of interlocking non-military transnational threats, such as global health, economic security, and climate change."

The report recommends that spy agencies make better use of open source data, modernize hiring practices and reorient spending priorities. Although the committee's Democratic majority wrote the report, the full committee approved it Wednesday morning in a bipartisan voice vote.

[RomanSoldier19]

[Seruzawa]

C’mon. It’s hard to deal with China when all your resources are already dedicated to achieving the aims of George Soros. The Rockefeller Trust and Sacs-Goldman.

[bandit123]

If they were not so busy trying to get Trump they might be able to focus on other thigs.

[PGalt]

What are we paying these pricks for? We could’ve sent Ozzy Osbourne to bite the heads off bats for some cheap drugs.

[RomanSoldier19]

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

[PIF]

Look man, they’ve got more important fish to fry - they have to mobilize enough resources in the next few weeks to take out a sitting President - after that, a month long party, and then they’ll think about outlandish stuff like a threat from China - of all places!

[AAABEST]

Until very recently, the near entirety of our intel resources were focused on the Mideast.

With the way bureaucracies are now, that ocean liner is going to take a while to turn.

[Old Sarge]

So what else is new?

[Salvavida]

I left the Pentagon and the intelligence community when I discovered principle war plans were not being completed. They were half-assed and not made in a sufficient detailed fashion because to do so would require HARD DECISIONS and resources.

That same year, DIA made a man wearing a dress their Employee of the Year just because he deployed to Afghanistan. I am not making any of this up.

As for the China issue, it comes down to National Will. Intelligence is only supposed to illuminate terrain. But there is a sincere lack of will power in the federal government to check China. We lack aggressiveness. China doesn’t.

So go ask your Congresscritter why the intelligence community doesn’t COMPEL all Chinese immigrants are debriefed. Ask for evidence of cooperation between DHS/State/FBI and DIA. How is it inspected by the IG? Ask for a policy paper from DNI and OUSD(I) on the issue that compels coordination. I DARE YOU. Because it doesn’t exist.