Pentagon wants intelligence czar

Washington Times ^ | 6/26/02 | Rowan Scarborough

[kattracks]

The Pentagon plans to create an intelligence czar to better fight the war on terrorism.

A confidential request for the new post went to Congress this week. The plan is emerging amid complaints that the nation's intelligence community, including the CIA and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, failed to coordinate and share information on terrorism, in particular Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

[TLBSHOW]

What is it with this Russian word czar popping up here in America? czar this and that! I think it is a very bad choice of words to use unless we are turning commie.

Main Entry: czar

Etymology: New Latin czar, from Russian tsar', from Old Russian tsisari, from Gothic kaisar, from Greek or Latin; Greek, from Latin Caesar -- more at CAESAR Date: 1555

1 : EMPEROR; specifically : the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution

2 : one having great power or authority - czar·dom /'zär-d&m, '(t)sär-/ noun

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

...the Defense Department also wants to downgrade the office of assistant defense secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict (SOIC). In its place would be a new assistant secretary for homeland security.

ping

[sneakypete]

Policy issues for special-operations forces would shift to a deputy assistant secretary, who would report to the new homeland security assistant secretary.

Sounds like they are planning on using Spec Ops troops within US borders in violation of Posse Comitatus,doesn't it? These are the first few tentative baby steps in that direction. If they get away with this,they take bolder steps.

[sneakypete]

What is it with this Russian word czar popping up here in America?

I believe it's called "Truth in Advertising.".

[sneakypete]

..the Defense Department also wants to downgrade the office of assistant defense secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict (SOIC). In its place would be a new assistant secretary for homeland security.

Of course. What good is a Office of Reich Security unless they have a armed and uniformed element?

[Fzob]

I believe it's called "Truth in Advertising."

Worth repeating

[bok]

I don't like that word either.

[lawdog]

." Policy issues for special-operations forces would shift to a deputy assistant secretary, who would report to the new homeland security assistant secretary."

Not to worry it won't be a "police state" - it'll be a military/police state!

[DoughtyOne]

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